fewer people, yet more engaging discussions

So the berkeley art center's small film festival happened last weekend, and as expected, it's a smaller scale fest, say, compared to the full house 3min. film fest last month in the Mission area.

It is more like a local event for artist and people living in the community, which is in fact quite an interesting experience. Since it was held at an art center, the discussion atmosphere was actually more serious and engaging than few of the recent fests i attended before.

What is more interesting is that most of the audiences are white (or just non-chinese), so they're pretty curious about all the Chinese rituals performed in the story, and asked me questions which I didn't really expect. Its cool coz it really helps you to revisit your own film from a totally different perspective.

It's also encouraging to hear some positive feedbacks about the film, especially the slow pacing, which many people, including part of the crew working for the film, didn't feel quite comfortable.

participating in a film fest is always a nice and helpful experience for a filmmaker...since art is, in some senses, a process of interaction between the artist and the audience, right?