It’s the second week of our social distancing / home stay without any end in sight or answers about how long this pandemic will go on — or how bad it will turn out. And we’re thankful that family and friends are safe and healthy. And that we have a chance to stay busy with work. A new film festival in our hometown of Decatur that we’ll be organizing and curating. Planning underway for 5 hours of screening that begins Sunday, May 17th, and goes through Thursday. With a focus on arts in the community and throughout the South. And with some great filmmakers sharing their work (for details see https://decaturshortdocs.com/). It’s been a few years since we ran a film festival in Avondale Estates. And this one promises to be bigger and better with the support of Georgia Center for the Book and the Decatur Arts Festival.
What else? A couple of indie film projects that needs lots of editing and TLC over the next couple of months — many many hours of footage and interviews and archival material already gathered.
And at least six postponements of our “Breaking the Silence” documentary to be rescheduled in the summer and fall.
We’re lucky. We know it. We hope to get through this and see everyone on the other side.
-Hal