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Rejoice! We are quickly approaching the first weekend in November and that means it's time for one of our favorite moments of the year. It's Rivers Edge Film Festival week! Thursday or Friday the WSF gang will be packing up and heading to Paducah once again to see our friends in the lower left corner of our fine State. And what a fine bunch they are. They treat us extremely well AND we get to enjoy all the of the culinary treats of Paducah which have been well documented here before (and almost certainly will be again). Last year, our underdog short Bizarnival walked away with hardware, hence the picture from the awards ceremony above. I'm not sure if a story about three educators from Danville will garner any prizes, but we certainly hope their adventure will bring hardcore inspiration to festival-goers as it has for generations of Danvillians. So, if you're anywhere near Paducah this weekend, we highly encourage you to come enjoy the town and the Rivers Edge Fest. Not just to see 3 Ladies on the big screen (which plays Friday, Saturday, and Sunday) but to relish the entire experience and see a host of great films!
Don't forget about us this weekend. We posted a ton of stuff from the festival last year and we're going to go above and beyond that this year. If you don't want to miss any of the hijinx we're planning, now is a great time to like us on Facebook and follow the Walk Softly Twitter account! We're going to be taking trips across the border, reporting a full range of dining reviews, keeping you up to date on the films we're watching and how our own screenings go, and documenting everything with photos and maybe even some video. It's going to get nuts.
Speaking of the WSF Twitter account... this is also 500 Follows week. At the time of this post, we're currently sitting on 491! If you haven't heard, our 500th follow on Twitter gets an autographed Cannonball DVD plus a page from the shooting script with handwritten notes PLUS a hand drawn page from our storyboards! And if the winner is sent to us by someone else's tweet, we'll send the exact same package to that person as well.
I hope everyone enjoyed our full slate of posts last week. Allen broke down the differences between indie film and theatre as he sees them. And we also found out that Michael Fassbender is the result of a German Cold War conspiracy to clone Christopher Plummer in the first ever WalkSoftlyFilms.com expose. Plumbender! I'm sure you'll hear more about it on Entertainment Tonight, etc, when the national media picks up on our story.
Personally, I am officially back to grinding it out for the man, but I am happy to report that more progress was made on the Space Cops edit even the midst of vacation. And progress will continue this week as well. Stay tuned for Indie Wednesday and more updates here on the blog as we get closer to this most revered weekend.