The invitation to participate in this international festival has made us great pleasure, the awards are always great and the Italian festival is part of a circle of festivals European fiction, something interesting for a possible future.
After a week of indecision on how to reach Trieste selection gets underway in the night train.
The bunk is not that bad, but I sleep a little over 3 hours, dedicating myself to watch movies on your iPod while I'm awake, including Caruso Zero in conduct that is surprisingly pleasant.
Trieste greets me fresh, and almost antisocial strip of land bordered by water and its open spaces escorted me to the hotel, where after a half-concerned with the goalkeeper I am given the room although a little before eight in the morning, there I concede a couple of hours of rest.
the 11 headquarters of the festival are the hotel where I know the volunteers and the people I had only heard via mail or telephone. After the first presentations I stop for the award to Ray Harryhausen, motion animation that has worked on many productions from the golden years of Hollywood. All this takes place in a video conference with London. We move then
lunch in a local restaurant where I know other poor people to the table and begin to understand how even while in Italy it is better that we speak English as a universal language for guests from all over Europe.
We go to the cinema, a multiplex in a mall, where I was stopped by the pass by a girl who turned out to be the organization that is beginning to speak in French, I listen to what I said for about a minute and when ends say, "... I thank you for what you said to me, but I probably have mistaken for another person." as indeed it was because he thought I was just a French actor. : D
time to make up a T-shirt of the event are already in the room to attend
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad , an adventure film with precisely the effects of Ray Harryhausen. The rooms are beautiful and appropriate to the festival.
Everything flows peacefully, although I feel a little lost for being in Italy, which still had never been to a film festival.
The second film I see is a very interesting peruvian film titled
Sleep Dealer really exceeded all expectations.
Walking through the mall I'm in front of a billboard that tells me that the film will be released soon after going to live alone. :) I allow myself
dinner at steak house, but unfortunately I'm spoiled by the memory of American and the sandwich, though good, is not 'at, especially for the unexpected taste of bacon passes for bakon. The film of the evening
Dante 01 by Marc Caro, co-director of Delicatessen and also of The Lost City. When I enter I realize that it was one of the people at my table at lunch and did not know. The film is weird and I understand little, I plan to see it in Italian.
leaving the room we meet for a beer, I talk with Marc, I invite him to the screening of Apollo, but he would break first, but it tells me to send him by sight. We also talk about comics and France, as we move to a party with too few people to stop and the bed has the upper hand on any possibility of further displacement.
The alarm sounds as if they were After only 5 minutes from when I closed my eyes, even almost one o'clock.
Lunch on the fly and soon they are in the lounge to watch Cyborg She
, one of the most moving films I've ever seen, beautiful, poetic ... I cried almost always ... : D
In the late afternoon it's up to me, I'm excited, but that's okay. Before Apollo
are excerpts of the forthcoming movie of the Manetti Bros.
I do a little intro part and projection.
The screen is huge, maybe too much for the resolution of Apollo, but we are in dance and dance.
Many people leave the room during the first quarter of an hour, who remains is just as fun and laughs, especially the ending.
The few questions from the audience and the most numerous of the official festival screening after the intervention are intertwined, which is fine, but just part of it. Closes
Space Italy an interesting short
Afterville . Private
then I stop for me (us) best wishes for the next job, our compliments, to tell us that they are with us, even outside the official circuit do science fiction.
A French author tells me that the film transpires the sacrifices made to Apollo, and the remarkable fact that the use of 3D and 'used where we did not reach by hand.
Another person tells me that festival of Apollo is honest, one of the best praise we have ever done.
I realize, however, a projection is not a game and therefore can not be expected to know how it went when it ends. : D
After the ceremony we all go to dinner together in a Neapolitan pizzeria where a hearty dinner with beers, including a peroni gran reserva red unknown to me.
During dinner, I talk about a festival in Germany where the film and tell you who wins the public more involved.
The next morning I wake up with the desire to go home.
The train is waiting for me and, after buying lunch, I sat at my place near the small table near a Catholic Bible with a lot of bookmarks and those with whom filled the book.
In the long journey and listen to the ipod I think about how information technology can be frustrating because he has the time and methods of manual work, but that does not actually produce anything physical, like manual labor is perhaps a classic. Terms
greets me with his smell and the subway takes me straight to bed, while the clock just past the 18 points.
thank all those who have real rest this experience to the next ...
