Film Fest !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The fall chill is in the air which means the Atlantic Film Festival is back.  It snuck up on me this year so I haven't gotten a chance to check out the coming attractions in their brochure, but I will.  Even if I can no longer leave my apartment to attend, its always an exciting time and memories of film festivals past, flood my brain. 

My mind imagines the smells of cocktail shrimps of yesterday and the bottled beer that's never been cold in its life.  I also remember the smell of new up and coming Filmmakers with their optimistic freshly pierced things, haunting the halls of the venues and parties.  They are so cute at this age, just before their spirits are broken and they end up volunteering on other film sets so they can at least eat at the craft services.

This will be the first year in a long time that Gregor Ashe has not been at the helm of the AFF so there'll no doubt be some comparing and contrasting going on.  Don't know much about this new guy except for what I read in the papers and I do wonder whatever happened to Gregor. 

Some folks though Gregor was going to slide into the FilmNS CEO role vacated by Ann MacKenzie but that does not appear to have happened.  In fact no one has been hired to sit in the big chair and I haven't heard of any efforts being made to do so.  I also haven't heard of any hiccups in the running of the corp., things just seem to have kept running.  Makes a fella wonder...what are they going to do with the money they're saving on salary and travel.  Maybe they need someone to consult on their new blog.  Also no word on where Ann macKenzie has moved on up to embrace new challanges.

Wonder if that means they won't have their annual AFF lobster cook?  FilmNS is hosting a Steak and Seafood giveaway at a hotel in Toronto for the TIFF.  I'm sure that's a good business plan.  Somehow.

My editor today is the always available Lunchmeat Harold (ed. Howdy!)

So, in other news Haven has wrapped it's third season on the south shore and Call me Fritz is starting soon, (ed. or has started?).  Mr. D the CBC smash sitcom (ed. um, well CBC liked it and it got good numbers, not Corner gas numbers, mind you.) has also wrapped.

Mr. D is a series from the Trailer Park Boys organization (ed.  That sounds intimidating)  Speaking of which, the boys and director Mike Clattenburg are in Sault Ste Marie (ed - WTF?) shooting a movie called SwearNet which seems to be a series of parodies of TV shows with the swearing turned up to 11.  Guess that a good thing for the TPB's niche audience.  (ed. be good to keep them off the streets for a couple of hours, probably)

BTW, whatever happened to the Guys Who Move Furniture (ed. aka Moving)  feature that Mike Clattenburg directed last year.  It had Will Sasso and Eddie Murphy's brother in it and it was supposed to be a mainstream thing?  Was it ever released?  Did anybody see it?  It got a 5.4 out of 10 on IMDB but the only review is from a guy who liked it and hated Batman Rises.

Anyway that's all for now.  Maybe after I hear some scuttlebutt from the AFF I'll blog some more.  And remember I'd love to hear your comments, news, questions.  I am so lonely.