Tuesday night's screening of Cry, the Beloved Country was one of those moments when you know why you go to festivals.
To have Archbishop Desmond Tutu introduce the film, and James Earl Jones come on stage for a "Q&A" after made the screening all the more extrordinary.
Since i'm a docu guy - i found myself watching a drama about South Africa and wondering if a documentary could have captured the same story. In this case... James Earl Jones was able to create a dimentional portrait that a documentary would have done differently, and maybe not better.
After the screening, we wandered over to the filmmakers party - that was jammed full of filmmakers, and ideas.
