After a humongous day of phone calls, emails, moving (I’m moving), meetings, and packing, I fueled up my car with gas and my belly with a Fat Burger and drove up to Santa Barbara just in time to make the Opening Night Gala for the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Ryan was in the car too feeding me french fries. That’s just how we do it.
The gala was a crazy huge party in this big shopping square just off of State Street. There were about fifteen hundred people there, all very well dressed. There was music, drinks, food, and shmoozing. In general, it was just a huge celebration to kick off the fest. These Santa Barbarians love their movies and are very excited to welcome all the films and filmmakers.
Tomorrow, the plan is to do some grass-roots promotion for Blumenthal. That means posters in coffee shops and hyping the film to strangers. I’m anxious to share the official poster with all of you. That should be released very soon, so stay tuned.
In the meantime, check out BLUMENTHAL’s newly minted website! Click on the image above or visit http://www.bluemthalmovie.com. Check back often for new media, press, and info on screenings. Also, don’t forget to “like” us on Facebook!
The film looks fantastic and hope the premiere goes well on Sunday night. Just to let you know there is a typo in the link above to the website so it doesn’t work – here is the correct link http://www.blumenthalmovie.com/ Also, when I clicked on the image above it took me to a watchmemakeamovie page which said ‘sorry page not found’.