I'll be the first to admit that we are pretty terrible at regularly updating this blog, but I'm hoping that 2010 (even though we are already 3 months into it) turns into the year that we stop being delinquents and start being regular bloggers. There's always something exciting going on at REEL CANADA that we'd love to share. Unfortunately, we're usually too busy doing the exciting stuff to write about it.
Well, no more! I've got a smart phone and I'm fresh out of excuses.
Right now I'm on a bus headed to Sudbury with my colleague Mark, our Production Manager Maria, our Film Programmer Stacey Donen and our Facilitator, Norma Dell'Agnese.
Seven schools from across the Rainbow District school board are getting together for a day of Canadian film tomorrow at Sudbury Secondary. We'll be showing Bon Cop Bad Cop (with star Colm Feore appearing via web conference), Fido (another web conference with writer Dennis Heaton), How She Move (stars Kevin Duhaney and Daniel Morrison live in the house), Meatballs (with two Canadian cast members in attendance), The Rocket and a program of short films with special guest Janelle Wookey, a very promising young documentary director and APTN tv personality. We'll be showing her short doc Memere Metisse.
In case you think REEL CANADA is all glamorous movie stars and awesome screenings, let me tell you about how hard this team works to put on a great show at every school we visit. Our rag-tag crew of bus passengers was on the road at 8:30 this morning. We're driving for four or five hours and then heading straight to the school to set up our equiment with the tech crew, which will take another four or five hours. Then, a quick stop at the hotel to freshen up and we're off to dinner with our guests. Tomorrow, up before dawn and back at the school by 7:00am to double check everything before the students start arriving. When the day ends (a smashing success, to be sure) we'll dismantle everything and hop right back on the bus to come home.
Not much time for sightseeing at the big nickle, but it'll be worth the effort as long as the students have an awesome time.
I'll post some pics of our journey the moment I figure put how to do that from my phone!
xo
Kat
