This is a special guest post by visiting filmmaker and blogger Laura Zinger.* To read more about her trip to the 2010 St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival and impressions of Canada and Newfoundland, visit her blog 20kfilms.com for the complete blog posts.
It’s finally time to go home. I can’t believe only a week has passed since I first came to Newfoundland. I almost feel like I live here now! This was the most amazing festival, and I highly recommend every female filmmaker submitting their films. The camaraderie and community of other female filmmakers is too amazing to miss.
I am sorry to go after meeting so many amazing people at the festival. I want to give a huge thank you to all of the awesome people who made the festival amazing and showed me a great time. Thank you, Anita, Shannon, Aimee, Elsa, Victoria, Irene, Barb, and everyone else I met. Thank you Roberta, Christine, Jan and Kendra for your wonderful workshops. (I’m running out of adjectives here.) Thank you to all of the organizations like NIFCO that support the festival and independent filmmakers. Thank you, Marnie, and the rest of the printers in St. John’s for inviting Amos and being so hospitable.
Thank you, Newfoundland, for being such an isolated island full of amazingly resourceful people with interesting accents, and thank you, St. John’s for having the most artists per capita in North America. Thank you, Sprout for your amazing vegetarian food, and thank you, Quidi Vidi Brewery for your wonderful ale. I honestly and truly felt at home here. What a wonderful rock of an island to live on.
I will miss you all dearly, and I hope to return to Newfoundland in the near future.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
One last thing, long may your long jib draw. (Did I get that right, Aimee and Shannon?)
Editor: We hope you enjoyed the guest blog posts by Laura Zinger on her 5 days at the St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival. Too bad Laura left 2 days early, we’d love to hear her accounts of the infamous Pope party, the closing film gala and Ron Hynes show. We miss you Laura, come back!
Read all of Laura Zinger’s blog posts on The St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival 2010. They’re so good, it’s almost like being there:
- SJIWFF10 Day 1: Digital Dames
- SJIWFF10 Day 2: Roberta Munroe
- SJIWFF10 Day 3: My Film Proceed and Be Bold Screens at the Festival!
- SJIWFF10 Day 4: Christine Vachon and Pitch This with Jan Miller
- SJIWFF10 Day 5: Going Home
Don’t miss this othe great article on the festival. Joy Loewen of NSI Drama Prize Loves the St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival
*Laura Zinger is the Founder of Chicago Production Company 20K Films. She currently teaches introductory courses in video production and editing in the Motion Picture/Television Department at the College of DuPage. In 2008, Laura went all in and independently produced and directed the feature-length documentary Proceed and Be Bold!, which has screened internationally in Italy, Germany, Austria, England and Canada. The documentary also screened as an official selection in six American film festivals, including the San Francisco Documentary Film Festival and the St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival in Newfoundland Canada.
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