Did you miss me?
WOW, it’s been so long since I’ve been here. Sorry! But after April is over, I should have some time. Been busy with posting updates on the Japan Film Festival–Los Angeles blog and also on their Twitter. You can also follow me, lil_drea. So what have I been doing? Lets see…
Mr. Kiyoshi Kurosawa JFFLA Symposium
I met Mr. Kiyoshi Kurosawa at the JFFLA Symposium (that’s my postcard, was given 1 day to work on it) on March 10th. But I was working the registration table and didn’t get to listen to him talk. He seemed like a nice man, he posed for pictures with students afterwards. His handlers were trying to get him out of there, but he still stopped to talk and take the photos. The turnout could have been better. I think the date and time was bad, 5pm on a Tuesday. But I guess that was the only time he had available. He had a busy schedule that week. He was at LACMA the night before with his screening of Tokyo Sonata and Q&A. Then, Tuesday, UCLA Symposium at 5pm and USC screening and Q&A at 7pm. The next day he had an interview with Eric Nakamura, Giant Robot in San Francisco and then at SFIAAFF the rest of the week. That’s one crazy schedule. Not sure what he did the week before or after.
JFFLA at the Royal/T Cafe
On Saturday, March 14th, I was helping out at the Short Film Screening (that’s Kio’s flyer) at the Royal/T Cafe. OMG, their burger sliders are so good. YUM! Standing room only, lots of people showed up. The audience voted for “The Diary of Dorobo”, we’ll be showing it at the Festival. That was one of my favorites. And I met the writer and director of The 8th Samurai, Justin Ambrosino. Nice guy.
We got quite a few submissions. There was one about Cannibals, hilarious but kinda gross. I think we’re going to try to show that one late at night. It’s pretty good. We finally got to watch the rest of the submissions last Friday, these were the full-length ones. That was a 6-hour marathon and I just couldn’t stay any longer, got home around 2am. I’m so exhausted.
So that’s what I’ve been doing lately. A couple more weeks of promoting and then the actual festival. Don’t forget to come, you’ll be able to see my “Boyfriend” on the big screen. Now I just need to figure out how to bring him home. Any suggestions?
