Musings of an Idiot

Bradlands

It has been 2 busy days..no 2 hectic days and I am currently feeling exhausted but have to carry on this whole week and get loads of stuff done at school and otherwise. Before I went to sleep today morning at 12.15 AM I calculated that I had been through 33.5 hours with only 2.5 hours of sleep.

I had volunteered to help out at Bradlands - the fund raising event for Brad McGann, the director of 'In My Father's Den' {which happens to be my favorite NZ Film}; who is suffering from cancer and the event was to raise money for his treatment. I also got talking to Lance and I volunteered him to help out with an aspect of the event..heeheee.. - the idea was to record personal messages from people at the event to give to Brad -which was definitely a more personal gesture. I discussed it with one of the organizers, Rebecca Russell {who is also the editor of TAKE magazine} and she liked the idea and allowed us to carry through with it. So Lance was there filming the vox pops (thanks Lance!!) while I was just helping out with giving out the auction booklets to people. The event was a huge success and the industry support was massive.



Personally, I got to meet a lot of established as well as upcoming film makers - which was a real honour and a pleasure. I definitely am not a social animal as I usually get lost for words really quick, while trying to talk to someone new. After the auction, was the screening of 'Possum' - Brad McGann's fourth short film, which was striking and emotional and disturbing and beautiful. After that was the screening of 'Badlands' - which was again an experience. It was funny and beautifully captured - dazzling would be the right word for the movie. I would never have seen the movie but it was cool that the volunteers got free passes to the screening. I finished trimming the vox pops and authored them onto a DVD - now just have to get it across to Brad.

Today - I had a meeting with a publicist to see if she would like to help us out with the publicity for our second film and the meeting went really well. I think major announcements are due for the movie in January. Lance and me also spent the evening shooting an ultra low budget promo video for a music group which will be touring Dubai soon. I now have to edit it within the week.

So with such a mad week - I do feel lucky, happy and exhausted. Now I think I will hit the sack, especially since sleep is precious this week.

Ciao,
Amit

posted by Amit @ 10:47 PM