The Filmcake

Finally now that my internal organs have stopped doing horrible impressions of Marlon Brando, I bring you the final recap of the 2009 deadCENTER Film Festival:

Saturday morning, we caught the Short Femmes program. It was a very strong block of films. Aside from Three, which just creeped me out, they were all quite good. Forced into ‘Comfort,’ Fighting for Apology, which won best Documentary Short, was eye-opening and moving. But my favorite of the group had to be Bean. I thought it was a very strong performance from Arron Fenton in the title role.

After that, we swung by Visual Image for the pre-Awards Cocktail Party. Or, the Don’t You Wish Your Office Looked Like This Instead of a Soviet Era Cubicle Farm Cocktail Party.

Then it was onto the Peace, Love and Wavy Gravy party for the Awards Ceremony and Saint Misbehavin’: The Wavy Gravy Movie. To be honest, I went into Saturday not knowing a thing about Wavy Gravy (aside from the fact that he makes a yummy ice cream flavor). Needless to say, the documentary about his very interesting life was enjoyable indeed.

Next there was some mingling at the Skirvin. Then blurry memories of a rooftop and a Bobo’s wing. Then a couple hours of sleep. Brunch. And The Best of Fest (where I was really happy to catch Science Fair as well as the final installment of the Hard Justice promos).

I cannot wait to get back to my normal routine. But, I miss you already deadCENTER. I caught the end of Bradley Beesley and Sarah Price’s Summercamp! on the Sundance Channel yesterday afternoon. The campers were getting ready to leave and everything was bittersweet. They had met great new people and had ridiculous amounts of fun. They didn’t want to leave. But they also just wanted to go home. Such is with deadCENTER. My summer camp.

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