Since I'm currently an intern at Cedar Fort Entertainment, for the first time ever, I got a VIP pass to an awesome event! Hopefully, I can get a VIP pass to SLC Comic Con next. This was my first time attending the LDS film festival and it was pretty fun. I met Orson Scott Card, his assistant, a bucketload of producers and novice filmmakers, and I even saw a short film about a modern day transcendentalist. That particular short film sticks in my head, not because of the talking duck (I hated the duck), but because it was so hilarious to see a young college student, bright eyed and full of promise, voluntarily starving himself and sleeping in a park so that he could learn from nature. It was ridiculous because you could see houses in the background. He wasn't far away from civilization at all. I also loved that irony of how he learns that isolating himself doesn't help anybody. He should be with his own kind and help them out. Maybe that movie was only funny for English majors who have studied Thoreau, but it was fun to watch (except for the talking duck. Maybe they just needed to change the voice of the duck. It grated on my nerves.)
Having a VIP pass means that you can hang out on the squishy couches in the VIP room and snack on the bowls of goodies. I was also happy to get a selfie with Matt Meese, my favorite actor from the TV show, Studio C. I'd still like to know how much they get paid for each episode, but he didn't say. The short film Nightblind had some AMAZING special FX, including one shot that was worked on by a guy who was involved with Guardians of the Galaxy! The director and his buddies have done seven short films in the past few years and their next goal is to make Nightblind into a feature. I spend so much time polishing my scripts that I'm jealous of the people who just go out and shoot films. I wish them the best of luck!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz4N3w5U3DY
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