Sorry I've been E&T---I went to Charleston on Sunday to screen our film at the very first Charleston Jewish Film Festival. It was a very nice event, most people seemed to be from the same synagogue and knew everyone else. I was one of the youngest people there! I could tell from the guys talking around me that they would really like the film because they knew almost everyone who would be in it.
But, the DVD crapped out about a half hour in. They started it again and it messed up at the same place, so I deployed my own copy, which did well for awhile but then frozen for a bit. Since the DVD has no chapters yet, they had to keep starting from the beginning and fast-forwarding to where it messed up. I felt so bad; the people had done so much work to create this event. They did their due diligence and watched the DVD at home and then tested it at the theatre but I don't think they went that far into it.
I had a sense that things might be difficult when they started the film and the image (it was a rear screen projector) was flipped, and they had to stop and redo the settings. Seems like they would have noticed that!
The theater was a beautifully restored 1927 little movie palace gem, but the screen was a portable one, probably about 10 feet wide. I was surprised that they didn't have a screen here. I guess the DVD player was persickety, since both DVDs had problems and they were made at different times with different companies. Very painful screening to me, but the people were good sports (we were in the south, after all) and even sang "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" after the 3rd time it froze.
