Well, dear readers, I believe it’s Good Friday and I’m glad the following good news didn’t Passover us. As I mentioned a few days ago, we’ve entered several film festivals with Sami, oh, yes, we’ve entered several film festivals with Sami, and that is part two of the good news because on Wednesday we won several awards and that made me and our producer very happy. It doesn’t matter if it’s a big festival or an online festival or a small festival – they get a LOT of entrants. In the scheme of things, it doesn’t really mean all that much, although it is helpful on the imdb page and in promotion. So, we won three awards at the New York International Film Awards festival, and they are: Best Web Series.
Best song, Here in Sweden, which is the song from the first episode of the show, which was what we submitted to them.
Finally, Sami Staitman won Best Actress for the entire festival – she won over a number of other finalists, and that doesn’t count the other entrants and those who even made it to the semi-finals.
At the Oniras festival, we got a Special Jury Award for Best Web Series. So, it was a festively festive festival day of awards for us and from here through the rest of the year we’re in more festivals and wouldn’t it be loverly to win some more awards? It would.
And I did manage to watch a weird documentary about an abused girl whose boyfriend killed the abused girl’s mother. The mother was a monster who used her child for sympathy and money, putting her through horrible surgeries, on a huge number of medications literally making her ill, pretending she was backward, had leukemia, asthma, arrested muscle development so she’d be in a wheelchair – all of which were completely untrue. She by all accounts was a master manipulator. I’m not sure how a child who grows up in those circumstances even survives. The girl, now in her twenties is in the last year of serving a ten-year sentence as she was involved in planning the killing. And she seems like a teenager and when she was eighteen her mother was pretending we was twelve or something. It’s frightening stuff. It’s called Mommie Dead and Dearest. The boyfriend, who’s as bad as the mother, is serving life in prison.
After that, I re-watched the first half of Garbo Talks, starring Anne Bancroft, Ron Silver, Carrie Fisher, along with such folks as Howard da Silva, Dorothy Loudon (hilarious), Hermione Gingold – you know, those types. I’m determined to finish the damn thing. It’s not brilliantly written and scenes come and go almost like afterthoughts, which means there was probably a lot of post-production editing after the fact, but the Cy Coleman score helps and the actors are all excellent.
Yesterday was good, save for an irritating text waiting for me when I got up. I got eight and a half hours of sleep, got the award certificates, which made me very happy, ordered the small pepperoni thing from Marco’s Pizza, ate it (very good), had some telephonic conversations, did some stuff on the computer, got the fixed book and signed off on it, then watched the movies. I had no other food, so that was good.
Today, I’ll be up by eleven at the latest, I’ll have a quick telephonic conversation, then I’ll get ready for a one o’clock work session. After that, I’ll mosey on over to the mail place and pick up a little package that arrived yesterday, I’ll eat something light but fun, I’ll do whatever needs doing, then I have a three o’clock phone thing, and then I can watch, listen, and relax.
Tomorrow, she of the Evil Eye comes, so I’ll be up by eight-thirty and out the door by nine, otherwise I’ll be writing liner notes, doing a show order, and writing commentary, with the hope that I’ll finish all so that I can have a real ME day on Sunday. Monday is our first Kritzerland rehearsal, Thursday is our second rehearsal, Saturday is our stumble-through, and Sunday is sound check and show.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up by eleven at the latest, have a telephonic conversation, have a work session, hopefully pick up a package, eat, do whatever needs doing, and then watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Friday – what is currently in your CD player and your DVD/Blu and Ray player? I’ll start: CD, nothing. Blu-ray, nothing. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, happy that we won some awards and that it’s Good Friday and that the awards didn’t Passover us.