Momentarily back to work

What a great day was yesterday!

Wrote tons. Sun was out. The wind was only cool, not cold. Didn't have to be anywhere or bother with anyone (mostly.) Hubby made dinner. (I gave this up in January... the only resolution that I've ever managed to keep.) What could be better?

Another day just like it? Naw, that would become boring. Instead, today begins a week of movies.

Viewfinders, the youth version of the Atlantic Film Festival, starts today. This means that I will spend the week chauffeuring junior between home and the festival venue as he carries out his duties as juror watching the remainder of the films he and his co-jurors weren't able to view in advance. War/Dance is the film that launches the week's festivities and is about the children who are abducted to fill the ranks of the Lord's Resistance Army -- the rebel army in Uganda. I'm really looking forward to this one.

Junior also participated in a 48-hour film project on the weekend where five teams created five silent movies in two days. These will be viewed at Viewfinders on the last day prior to awards the jurors with present and before God Grew Tired of Us, the Brad Pitt produced film on the lost boys of Sudan which will close out the festival. The trailer on this looks really good.

So, I get to watch two movies per day. What a neat experience. Of course, it's keenness such as this that ensures my children continue to view me as being very uncool. Au contraire, I tell them. My enthusiasms are what makes me cool. As a matter of fact, I'm so cool, I sneer at cool. I am uber-cool.

I will miss two films that I would have liked to see this afternoon. One, Ruudi, is about a fatherless boy who organizes the "Big Father Contest" based on beauty pageants. It's touted as being "Possibly the most delightful film to come out of Estonia in years..." I can't help but crack up each time I read this line. Estonia, the film hub of Eastern Europe. But what do I know?

The other one I'll miss is The Danish Poet, the Canadian film that was nominated for best short film (animated) at this year's Academy Awards.

Tomorrow's selections are in French, only one claims sub-titles. This could prove to provide a rough couple of hours.

On Thursday we'll see two documentaries: White Planet, about the North; and Martyr Street, about the only place in the West Bank where Jewish settlers live in the heart of a Palestinian city.

Friday's selections are Generation XXL which is a local film and is about youth obesity; and Belfast Girls/The Troubles Within about the ongoing troubles in Ireland.

Sadly, I'll miss Doomstown about inner city life in Canada. (Who knew we had one?) Junior has already seen this one and thought it was terrific. It's directed by Sudz Sutherland, who currently directs Degrassi Jr. High, a Canadian television show.

Saturday is the wrap-up and then I can get back to some serious writing.

Wow! What a busy few days ahead.

Have a great writing day,
Colleen