march 21 09
I was at the wonderful one world festival in Prague last weekend. It’s great to see how big it has grown since my film ‘Settlers’ opened it in 2000.
Sadly on my arrival I got an email from Samir (the Liberace of Baghdad) from my last film. He is now living in USA but wrote to say he has prostate cancer and is going for 42 days radiation treatment.
That evening I sat by the grand piano in the foyer of the beautiful 1930s cinema and missed him dearly.
The Japan film was packed and was voted 4th fav film by the audience the next day. Not bad out of 300 films.
Today I arrived in Porto, Portugal, heading to small village festival just over the border in Spain. A place called Tui. But no-one has come to meet me. So I’m on a bus trying to make my own way there.
It gave me horror memories of my last time showing a film here in Portugal in 1996, I was with with Kev from ‘Working For the Enemy’ no one showed up to meet us and no one came to see the film
Well at least this festival is over the border in Spain. Let’s hope there is an audience at 22:30 for the film tonight. If I make it.
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