The hometown premiere of
Sunscapades at this year's
Encounters festival went encouragingly well, especially considering the screenings were the first time I'd seen the film with a sizable festival audience. As with all films it's been educational as far as which bits get the strongest reactions but all things considered I couldn't be happier with how it went down. It was also very nice to be able to bring along almost all of the film's modest crew (
Laura-Beth,
Hannah,
Phil and
Carwyn) - not to mention
me mam - and hopefully
come October everyone involved will have gotten to see it on the big screen.
Until then the film will be popping up around the world at a few more lovely events. To cap off the week tomorrow night will see it among the launch programme for the
Roselle Park Short Film Festival, a branch of the
Roselle Park Arts Festival. In Roselle Park, believe it or not. If you're on that side of the pond you can check out the screening at the
Climax Brewing Company's outdoor theatre at 5:30pm.
One final reminder that if there are any
David Lynch/
Twin Peaks fans out there who haven't yet made weekend plans, my previous film
Klementhro is screening as part of the
Lynch Inspired Short Films programme at
The Official Twin Peaks UK Festival. According to their social media there are still a handful of tickets left if you fancy
snapping them up. The screenings will take place 3:30pm Saturday 29th and 11:30am Sunday 30th - I'm pretty sure it's the same programme repeated each day but I may be mistaken. At any rate here's the
full list of films and you check out the complete weekend schedule
here. Drink full and descend!
