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Never mind splashy screenings for the likes of Baby Mama and Speed Racer. Tribeca '08 will largely be a forum for the Little Films That Can. And many won't. Some projects may have the money for a reasonably slick marketing push; some won't have enough coin to fly the director's family out for the premiere. Regardless of the camp into which they fall, we thought it only fair to allow the people in charge of these films, the directors, to appeal to our readers themselves.
We posed the same five questions to every filmmaker accepted into the festival and offered them the chance to reply. Below are the responses we've received, virtually unedited. (We've made a few snips for clarity; that's it.)
Tom Donahue and Paul H-O, directors of Guest of Cindy Sherman
1 Why should someone watch your movie, in 100 words or less? (Don't just paste in your marketing blurb. Persuade our readers.)
Paul: Every once in a great while something really tiny and insignificant happens in one's life and it's like sticking a pin in a water balloon. I was living a kind of a great life with a beautiful artist whom I loved more than anyone ever and this incident at a posh social event punched a hole in my life, and the contents spilled out into a movie.
Tom: Because there is nothing like it.
2 Without spoiling your plot, describe a scene in your film that audiences will love.
Paul: Julian Schnabel calls my cable show, GalleryBeat, stupid and masturbatory, and then we have an amusing exchange of words.
Tom: There are many. The verite of Paul and Cindy flirting and falling in love with each other is priceless. It is completely honest and shows real intimacy between two people. And there is some great surfing.
3 If your protagonist were an animal, what would he/she be and why?
Paul: Some kind of sea mammal, a sea lion or small whale because he's a sea creature, and gets cranky out of the water.
Tom: A grizzly bear. Big, burly, unpredictable (and I don't mean Cindy).
4 What will surprise me about this movie?
Paul: How packed it is with stuff about the art world that isn't boring.
5 How would describe your filmmaking style or philosophy? How is that reflected in this project?
Paul: My style has always been, when in doubt or without a doubt, get it on the videotape. If I wasn't compulsive about catching life through a lens I wouldn't have this crazy movie we made.
Tom: Trying to make sense out of a mass of confusion. Thankfully, with this film, we never reached that goal.
