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the wilma, originally uploaded by Jeanie Queenie.

The world famous Wilma W, star of the Big Sky trailers

Next up was the evening Shorts programme.

An incomprehensible but beautiful Australian film Dig (made me wish I'd shown the subtitled teenland again as I couldn't understand a word of the thick Australian voice over).

Next was Memento: a boulder life line, which was a shot on film, crane shot heavy, boulder climbing film. It was absolutely stunning but the length (44mins) was about 10 times too long and the Red Bull product placement got to be hilarious. Climber reclines back for a relaxing sip of the highly charged caffeine drink, wearing his matching logo laden hat and trousers before he attempts to conquer another challenging boulder. You could here the whispers in the audience - how'd they afford that crane crew and the film? then the logo would come clearly into shot and the answer was obvious.

Next was Silences, one of my favourite films of the festival. The beautifully told story of the bi-racial director trying to get to the bottom of his untold history. A fantastic portrait and moving story told with sensitivity.

Then Stewart's film In the glow about blank billboards which had some very memorable shots of thousands of insects hurtling towards a huge white light. I was desperate to interrupt Stewart's Q and A with the question - how many teeth do you have? a continuation of a running joke. His friend is a stand up and will tell this joke until no one laughs - I have 1000 teeth, no 36, no, no no, 90, no 35...etc it doesn't really translate but Mike has an injury on his head that he got from hitting his head on the table he was laughing at it so hard last night.

We then found fine dining in Missoula with gourmet dinner at Scotties, all served by a very brusque waitress who had the unfortunate habit of brushing customers with her breasts.

scotties, last night meal, missoula, originally uploaded by Jeanie Queenie.

Scotties, last night meal, missoula

I sat next to veteran filmmakerSteve James at dinner (Hoop Dreams, Stevie and the war tapes) who was very interesting about IFC (who my new project may be funded by) and his new project about the death penalty. He took a copy of Teenland and promised to give me some feedback and any ideas of places it could play.

By the time we hit the bar, the Old Post, everyone was in high spirits- the old drinking at altitude chestnut! Pretty much most of the festival had made it over and we took over most of the bar. I started to realise that there was a genuine buzz about Teenland - one guy said "oh, you're the Teenland Girl, everyone's talking about that film, there was someone talking about it when I got to the airport" which was very heartening and shows that even though I had only 60 (at most) people at my screening that word of mouth is a very powerful thing. One of the key things I wanted from this trip was to get direct feedback about my film nd I think I have more than achieved that. feedback I have got includes: "unusual, unconventional, moving, beautiful, insightful, surprising, untraditional film-making" which is all good (noone gives bad feedback to your face, do they?) and reassures me that there is an audience for my work.

bigsky, originally uploaded by Jeanie Queenie.

Mountains hiding behind the fire escape.

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Teenland poster spotted on the Hip strip.

Labels: big sky, missoula, steve james

posted by Jeanie Tuesday, February 20, 2007 | 0 comments