« SILVERDOCS Round-Up Before Our Screenings | Home | Support your local artists »
SilverDocs and the Zoo!
By Dawn | June 28, 2008
When Kristy and I heard that we got into SilverDocs we cried. No I mean it. Ok, maybe I was the the one who cried, Kristy said, NO WAY. I think even with the success of the film we are still THRILLED and surprised when GREAT and COOL festivals accept our film. We really wanted to be in the Washington DC region because we KNEW that we’d have a great audience there. And we did!
Thanks to all of the great groups and people that came out to see the film. We had girls and staff from Girls Inc of the Greater Washington DC region, Big Brothers, Big Sisters (Big Sisters and Little Sisters came!! and talked with us afterwards). We met a cool film maker Lydia Douglas. She made a film called “NAPPY” a few years ago. She was super supportive of our film and really “got” it! We had a few professors from the local universities and lots of teachers. The audiences were great and had wonderful questions. I wish we could have talked with the audiences more!
The SilverDocs crew were awesome!
Thanks to everyone at SilverDocs! Especially Sky, Sarah, and the theater house manager (sorry! I forgot her name!).
The two days that our film screened were great. In between Kristy, Ariana, Rigo (my 12 year old son) and I really did a good job of seeing the sights. We were there for 3 days (Kristy for 4) and packed in a lot!
The two hour memorial walk ended up being 4 hours and as Kristy says I probably was the one who loved it the most. I love history! I love knowing about what happened when and where. I know that monuments represent a specific version of the history of the battles we have fought and all wars have multiple realities. I have no illusion of the U.S. as the great savior of the world. In fact, I was pleased to hear Rigo ask at the Korean and Vietnam memorials, “How many Koreans, Vietnamese, Chinese and others died? Why do we only document the people from the U.S.? This is sad. We need to remember everyone.” These, of course, are the questions we must ALL ask during any war. We are citizens of the world not one nation, not one country. For war to end we have to see ourselves as part of our true global community. I was proud of Rigo for asking that even if he was rude and read his book the whole time he was on the walk! 12 year olds are FUN to travel with and I know his public display of disinterest is really his way of protecting himself from his un-cool, history loving mom! I can’t believe I am on this side of the child-parent equation. I thought only MY PARENTS were un-cool! How and when did this happen?!
Silver Spring is a sweet suburb of the greater Washington DC region. I enjoyed being there and we hung out at the mall along with HUNDREDS of other people. It was warm, there were kids playing in the beautiful fountain, teens checking each other out (I had to keep a close watch for Ariana, she is beautiful and many of the young men wanted to talk with her–yet another way I made myself in the un-cool auntie. Harolina you would have been proud of both Ariana and myself!) and lots of families enjoying the summer. Ariana and I both felt the outdoor mall reminded us of Emeryville Bay Mall but with three times the people (and hopefully no shell mounds!). It was fun and made me feel like summer was really here.
On our last day Rigo and I got up early. We were determined to go to the Smithsonian! There are so many to choose from it was tough. Before we left we TRIED to get Kristy and Ariana to wake up and go with us but they both said NO WAY! Originally we had decided to go to the Space and Air Museum, perhaps that’s why K and A didn’t want to go. But once we were on the metro (I LOVE THE METRO!) and looking at our options the ZOO was the obvious best choice. GIANT PANDAS! and the 2 year old baby panda. We saw a lot of the zoo, got very hot and tired and still made it back in time for the screening.
After the screening we were all tired! We wanted one last great meal and decided to go back to Ceviche a really nice tapas place on the mall. You have to try the Lomo Saltado (Latino-fusion food, this is a Peruvian dish!) YUM! and the Ceviche camerones YUM, YUM! It was a good thing we had this meal too because our flight was delayed. After dropping Kristy and Ariana off, Rigo and I made it home at 4:25 am. YES, in the morning. Rigo did not make it to his music class at 8:10 am.
We’ll keep you posted for the NEXT big screening and event. Thanks for all of your support and love. B-T-W all of my photos are from my iPhone. They are a little fuzzy because of that but basically ok.
Topics: DC, SILVERDOCS, festivals, food!, sleep deprived!, youth |
Comments