The lights dim, the audience quiets and a spotlight appears onstage, highlighting a clear podium etched with the emblem of SCAD. The final night of the 2012 Savannah Film Festival, presented by the Savannah College of Art and Design, is underway.
For the past eight years I have attended this festival. I'm drawn to it - to the excitement, to the talent, to the films. It is a representation not only of our beautiful city, but of the filmmakers working within it. I love the feeling of watching a movie, surrounded by an audience that equally enjoys the movie-making process.
I was excited to see my good friend and co-worker, Michael Jarema, Chair of the Savannah Film Commission, present the Film Commission award.
My brother-in-law, Joshua Lotz, Director of Operations at the Trustees Theater, was instrumental in implementing a Real D 3-D projection screen inside of the Trustees Theater which beautifully displayed the evening's screening of Rise of the Guardians.
The film was fantastic (I highly recommend the experience of seeing this!) and the company was even better. My sister and I posed outside the theater at the end of the night for a few pictures. I saw a "few" as it took that many before we got one in which we were behaving.
Patience paid off.
