The next day was the Carrboro Film Festival, a full day of really terrific films made by filmmakers who all had some connection to North Carolina. We saw lots of moving documentaries, terrific pieces of animation and great narrative shorts. When "El Caffinato" came on in the 5:30-7:00, we had all just scared been half to death by Michael Sharpe's "Deviling" - we weren't sure how the audience would react to the transition to people singing and making hipster jokes. But we were thrilled to hear the collective murmur of recognition when the music started ("Wait, this is a musical?!") and relieved to hear the many laughs that various moments elicited.
Then at the end of the day, there was this:
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| The Kay Kyser Award for "Best Professional Film." |
"El Caffinato" walked away from the festival with the "Best Professional Film" award. We were surprised and honored to be selected from among all the great films that showed at the festival. What a beginning!
We also have made an official movie poster now, which you can check out here, on our IMDb page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2100434/
I'm really freaking mad I didn't catch it. I was wrangling some of my dead beat friends who didn't know where festival was during most of the 3rd block. That's life in the big city, that is Carrboro. Perhaps if you ever plan to have a private screening let me know. I got a nice projector and we could do a little outside double feature. Best of luck to your film and your future productions.
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