Leading Ladies at Your Normal LGBT Film Festival (recap)
Here’s some of the recap of the Q&A from our fearless co-producer David Ward:
“Also wanted to mention that when I very excitedly told them about selling out the show in LA, they all broke out into joyous applause! Awesome!”
Others:
- I pointed out that that was the director Dan Beahm on screen and singing during “By the Bye” (and that you’re a real-life indie rock star), and that E had a cameo as well.
- Jen did her lovely “Erika dreams and thus it happens” talk
- I did the “six people and a video camera” speech
- I mentioned the bios of Pete, Markas, Melanie, Benji, Mario, etc.
- I ran through the festivals we’ve played and will be playing
- One of the audience questions was specifically about the toothbrush tango and where the inspiration came from and who choreographed. I talked about “dance in the every day” and talked about you filming the short, Erika being a dance prof., etc.
- Someone asked how we got hooked up with Melanie, so Jen told that story of What Not to Wear and SYTYCD and Benji, etc.
- Someone asked about the grocery store musical, which allowed us to lament its closing and praise our locations.
- Someone asked about the Rialto, which allowed me to go into my Bill and Ernie spiel.
- They showed a short before LL. “Go Go Reject.” Cute and dance-based. Jen pointed out that one of the dancers in it was someone y’all had auditioned for Cedric in Chicago. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjPWBnYF12E
Incidentally, another main actor from the film, Korken Alexander, auditioned for Cedric in L.A. Funny!
