Daily post 28 Apr 2006 11:25 am
Parties and Simpsons
– Last night the Tribeca Film Festival had a filmmaker party at the Apple Store in NYC. The Apple Store is a two story affair that has a lot of hardware on display to play with and a lot of lucite and hip lighting.
It was the kind of party where a lots of young people, dressed in T-shirts and jeans mixed with well dressed older types. No one seemed to know anyone else, and a lot of elbow rubbing took place trying to avoid knocking over anyone’s drink.
The store is expansive enough that there were large areas which no one occupied and other large areas that were overcrowded.
(The Apple Store during work hours.)
Last year’s event (this is my 2nd time in two years to have a film being screened) had more star power. This year just felt “in” and pleasant.
On arrival, we met up with Patrick Smith, Nina Paley and Biljana Lubovic who all have films out of competition as part of the Animated NY group. We parted ways when Heidi and I went to look for the wine table and to scout out the rest of the party; we didn’t meet up again.
The Bacon Brothers were scheduled to perform, and I looked forward to saying hi to Michael Bacon who scored my film, The Man Who Walked Between The Towers.
At 11:30 the excellent DJs were still making the music, 
and there was no sign of the Bacon Brothers. I had to leave, so I missed them.
All in all, it was fun. A nice opening to the festival for me. I haven’t been able to participate in any of the events till now, but I look forward to seeing my film in a movie theater tomorrow morning.
- The Onion has an entertaining interview with Matt Groening. They also have a list of quotes made famous from The Simpsons.
As you might expect, there’s a bit of talk about the Simpson’s feature, Futurama, Life In Hell and Tracey Ullman. The on line interview is more extensive than the one published in the paper.
