Musings of an Idiot

First Newsprint and School

School is definitely more tiring in the first couple of weeks. Maybe it is because you are trying to know everyone and just creating the building blocks for proper functioning of the school. Today was definitely more tiring than the others because I was photographing everyone for their photo ID's.

Yesterday evening, we had the screening of 'In My Father's Den' at Rialto for the students. This was in preperation for next week's guest lecture by Chris Plummer -the editor of the film. Special thanks to Paul at Rialto for helping us out with the discounted tickets as well as arranging for a bigger screening theatre on such a short notice.

THE FIRST ARTICLE on our movie, 'Memories of Tomorrow' appeared yesterday in Indian Newslink, one of the biggest Indian newspapers in New Zealand. Click HERE to read the article.

It is kind of humbling reading about yourself in the print. It becomes surreal and you wonder if it is really you that they are talking about. Venkat, the editor of the newspaper has indeed given us a positive review and a thumbs up. And this is definitely the beginning of the publicity drive and exposure for the movie.

Cedric prepared a press release and sent it over to NZPA and someone rang back within the hour to confirm the story, so hopefully it will mean that smaller newspapers across the country will pick up the story if they have place to fill. I made a press kit DVD yesterday night so that Cedric could send over to the 2 major national newspapers, to get them interested in doing a story on our film. 'The Aucklander' pushed our story back - don't know when it will be coming out.

While the PR is going on, we are now onto the last stages of post production - time to just wrap up everything and tie everything together. Time comes closer to show to the world on what we have been doing over the past 1 year.

Anyway am off for now. Got major meeting at TVNZ tomorrow morning.
Ciao,
Amit

{PS. - I got sent this link by my sis, in response to my question on origin of chopsticks. Click HERE to read it. Thanks for this kiddy.}

posted by Amit @ 11:07 PM