Naked Sushi World Premiere in Cannes

Another beautiful and successful day in Cannes. We got up super early today to take advantage of the peak busy day at the Palais. But first, I will tell you we had one crazy thing happen last night. The atm ate our card because we didn't take the card back out fast enough. Thank goodness Mike had his whole wallet with him. I left mine in the room and we needed cash for the taxi to get back home-lol!! So we only had a 30 second moment of panic!

This morning before we went to the festival we needed to go somewhere else (Mougin) and take a taxi. This was a challenge because we did not have a phone and we don't really speak French at all. Our adventure in communication began. So, we walked to our favorite boulangerie for breakfast and in my broken French asked for a number for a taxi. I walked to the phone booth and they did not take coins. Quite frankly, I had no clue. So, I went back inside the cafe and requested for them to call for me. This of course took a couple of tries in broken French.  Luckily they really embraced the challenge and began calling the numbers for us. The location we were at in Le Cannet is a little off the beaten path and not on a normal taxi route. They had to call several cab drivers. If we had to do this in French we would have never made it. They even had a hard time describing where we were and had to call several numbers-lol!! 

We made in time to our World Premiere at 12 noon at the Palais in the Short Film Corner screening room.  We had a programmer from a festival come to watch and there was standing room only. We got a lot of positive feedback. We also met someone who is friends with one of our actors (Our Valet in the movie-Marcus Mcgee). What a small world!  

At lunch today we went to the United Kingdom Pavillion and sat on the beachside patio. I met the heads of a German and UK women's film festival and was invited to a special party Tuesday at the Kodak Pavillion.  We also had the opportunity to meet two women producers one from LA and one from AU/UK. They both asked for scripts. Yay!! I will say this, The UK tent has a ton of speakers and a friendly and open attitude. The US pavillion charges (even Americans) 75 euros to go there. Are you kidding me??  Fuhgetaboutit!!  I will just hang with the Brits!

After lunch we finished the Palais booth tours and made some new contacts and met people to speak with later in the week regarding project development. We also met one short distributor and a company who is interested in possibly becoming a sponsor for Lady Filmmakers Film Festival. Double Yay!