We had a great weekend at Lake Powell. Here is the first rendition of our trip. Thanks to Zac Coplan, my brother-in-law, for putting his Flip to good use and then editing the footage to make this video of the water-skiing and wake-boarding. It was tons of fun. I want to thank our wives and children for letting us leave for a few days to spend some quality time together. We also had a couple of good games of Settlers of Catan at night. The weather was fantastic. The nights were gorgeous. A little more info. I’m in the red and white shorts, Spencer is in the red shorts, Zac is in the black and white shorts, and JP in the blue shorts. Let’s keep a good tradition going. We need these fun weekends to keep us going.
When the film played in Washougal and I was there watching it; I wasn’t sure how interested people were in the film. We had a 10 pm showing after a long drive from Utah to Portland through Roseburg to say hello to Marlene and the kids. Yes, we ran out of gas and thatb made it that much longer. But when we got to the local high school in Washougal and there was a big crowd watching fairly lame bang, bang, shoot em and knife em up flick, I was hopeful that many audience members would stick around. Well no only a few stayed and a few new audience members came. I liked the film and reviewed it earlier on this blog in August.
However it did receive the audience choice award for the festival and that is awesome and I was proud of my good friend Brandon Cahoon, the writer and director of this film about our lives in small town Utah.
I received a phone message last night from Brandon saying to check out the Torino Film Festival website on a few days at the of November schedule.
I then received a more official announcement via email from Brandon about its official acceptance into the Torino Film Festival.
Parade will be playing on three dates at the Italian Film Festival: November 22nd, 26th & 27th.
Congrats, Brandon. A much bigger Festival and one that has attracted the Academy Award winning Director, Oliver Stone. He will be showing his new film ‘W’ about George W. Bush. Not that I agree with his political leaning; but this is a huge festival and our little production is playing there. I know I say we but really this is a Brandon and Dayna production. I feel a part since I am a part of the original story.
Now we can hope that the great film will make it to DVD and maybe some extras will be created.
Also the awesome Movie Soundtrack might be a reality. If you haven’t seen the film or heard from Brandon about the music. Keep pushing for soundtrack to come out.
BTW – I like the new home page for the website. Parade – paradethemovie.com. Check it out.
This would be an amazing flight to go over to Europe to see the film at this huge festival. The distance, price, time, and the fact that my passport I think expired last year doesn’t help.
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