Enzian opened ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM on Friday night and the smartest guy in the room was Winter Park resident Mike Muckleroy who graced us with a Q&A after the film. Mr. Muckleroy, former head of Enron's liquid fuels division, a former naval officer, and an experienced commodities trader, became concerned about Enron Oil’s price predictions and trading practices as far back as 1986. There is a great piece on Mr. Muckleroy on the Enron Blog.

A charming Texan who remains tough as nails even as a septuagenarian, it is obvious that Mr. Muckleroy, although leaving the company in the early 90's, still feels as hurt, betrayed and angry as all Enron employees. It is astounding what that company got away with, but the bigger question left in my mind after Friday's screening was what are companies getting away with today and how long will it be before we find out?

--Shannon

The UCF Department of Film is looking to put that old 16mm rotting in your closet to use...

WE NEED YOUR OLD 16mm FILM PRINTS!!!
A new class in Experimental Film at UCF is seeking immediate donations of old 16mm prints that it can use as the basis of experimental film projects. The content of the footage doesn't matter - industrials, thrift shop vacation footage, TV shows, tests, whatever - but the film does have to be in good enough shape to go through a projector. We can pick up the film and will provide a receipt recognizing this as a charitable donation.
Contact Rich Grula
Director of Operations, UCF FILM
rgrula@mail.ucf.edu

You burned all that stuff to DVD by now anyway right???

It's over...everyone is relaxing on vacation right? Not exactly. People often think that we just drop everything and bolt on the last day of the Festival. They don't realize that by the time we wrap up this year, we have already started on the next. After we ship all the prints back, after we wrestle with accounting and budget tracking, after we clean up the mess that is inevitably left behind AND get Enzian up and running again...we start the post mortem.

Before, during and after the festival everyone takes notes on the good, the bad and the ugly and turns them in to our fearless leader Peg to compile and divide into departments. Then it's a fun week's worth of meetings to crawl through every detail from what a great job the volunteers did to who cracked the toilet tank in the bathroom?

Sometimes painful, always entertaining, this process allows us to let go of the past and get excited about what we can do better for next year...first we just have to fix the toilet...

--Shannon