Burden of Dreams

I arrived in Michigan on Thursday evening. Had a great screening in the Saugatuck High School on Friday. It’s Saturday now and I think I already have alcohol poisoning. This is the first festival that I have been to that has a help-yourself 24 hour bar next door to my room, and a Sea-Doo tied up to the dock right in front of my room at my disposal. The best say to wake up after a Friday night of partying in Saugatuck is to go Sea-Doo-ing as fast as you can across the lake and back (a few times), so I did. Forgot to put on sun-screen. I’ll survive. Just had the second Waterfront screening and once again the audience response was great. Tomorrow I’m going sailing with a friend of mine, Mark, and his wife Mary, on their 35ft sailboat. The people here are great. The whole festival is run by volunteers, but they are doing an incredibly professional job of it. Waterfront has to be one of the most fun film festivals I have ever been to.