Back again after some intense days in Amsterdam. Meeting new and old friends, and a lot of (for us) important people. As we had Thin Ice, by Håkan Berhtas, in the Silver Wolf Competition we looked good. You always feel better if you have a film in competition. Even if you know that many good films are not selected. I strongly think that Belfast Girls, by Malin Andersson, should have played very well in the First Appearence Competition. But anyway a good film will get more chances. Malin Andersson and I had a constructive meeting with Debra Zimmerman from Woman Makes Movies in New York and the great people from other distributor Films Transit. So from now on Woman Makes Movies will represent Belfast Girls in US. That's great.
The audience really loved Thin Ice and the crowd clapped with music in the end. For a long time we were in top 5 in the audience award. It's a lovely film, and now it will travel. Many festivals and TV-stations will take the film.
Margarete Jangård and producer at WG film like myself, spend three busy days at the Forum. We met with all the commisioning editors from the films we do and we also pitched some new projects. It's good to be in Amsterdam, but extremely exhausting.
Now we concentrate on the homework. Next time we'll meet in Barcelona, Thessaloniki or maybe at the Australian Documentary Conference in Adelaide in February. I'll be there.
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