Aspen Day 2
How awesome is sleep! I’ve been warned of the 2nd day ‘slam’ when it comes to feeling the effects of jet lag, it’s defiantly there but I’m wondering if the 12 months of ‘practice’ with my baby son has be valuable training as I’m not as wiped out as I was expecting (“Wait and see” says Dave “Wait and see”).
We had a film-maker meet and greet this morning which was fantastic as it was a great ice-breaker. We had our 1st real ‘Americana’ experience with coffee, bagels and cream cheese, amazingly it kept us full through our hectic day until late afternoon.
We decided that we wanted to at least see some of the snow before we had to attend out appointments, so we grabbed a foot pass to go up the Aspen mountain gondola, we received our 1st warning about the dangerous wildlife as there were ‘cougars’ about! A bit like ‘drop-bears’ but worse… old rich ladies on the prowl for young men!
After the amazing gondola ride up the mountain we had to rush to meet our ‘chauffer’ to see and talk to school students about our film. We were assigned a class of 200 kids from year 5-7ish, they responded fantastically to the film and had a good 3-4 questions for us… one of which came from a boy who had an obsession with finding out if we came from Germany! Hopefully our school session tomorrow will be a bit more intimate as we’ve been told we’ll only have about 20-30 kids this time.
I continued my search for over sized beverages, I discovered the American sized Chai Latte from the cafe near our ‘condo’. Yes it all sounds very metro, but if you saw the size of this massive mug you’d know I was simply indulging my inner bogan.
We still can’t get over seeing real snow falling around us in the streets or when we’re ‘sipping’ buckets of chai, it’s hard to remember that we actually came here to see the festival.
Tonight we attended our 1st session of the festival, and as expected it was fantastic, the caliber of the films is obvious, and it is really cool to hear from the film makers who are here, we all have to give a Q & A to the audience after our films have shown. Dave mustered his remaining strength to stay awake and not miss a thing.
Many more films to watch over the next few days, ours will be screening in the last session on Saturday. Anyway, fine and sunny day tomorrow, with light cloud cover and a possible chance of late snowboarding… see you from the hospital.
Gareth
Posted on 5 April 2008 in Directors Blog
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