Toronto as Seen From the Inside of a Hotel
I'm heading back to New York bright and early in the morning. Toronto's been nice and all, but it's not New York. There are too many little quirks here for me to ever be comfortable enough to stay. Then again, I didn't see nearly enough of it to fairly judge.
We had a full day of production doing three interviews, intros and outros for two shows and the last installment with Karina. What we did today will be the content for the next 3 daily shows. I would have to call today "legendary" for 3 reasons. Two of them, will be apparent in the last 2 daily episodes of ReelerTV (Tues. and Wed.) Not to slight Anton Corbin at all. He's a legend in his own right. And the last reason was a run-in with Mr. Pretty Woman himself, Richard Gere. We were getting off the elevator to interview legend #2 as he (#3) was getting out of the next car. Kinda cool.
Because I didn't see nearly enough films, but instead, spent the majority of my time producing the daily videos, I feel like Toronto was more of a tour of the most posh, exquisite and expensive hotels than an International Film Festival. For some reason, publicist seem to think that a hotel room provides the best interview space. They are usually nondescript and could be anywhere in the world as far as the camera is concerned. Despite all that, we did every one of our interviews in hotel rooms or lobbies. Oh well, at least they were nice ones. This is the main reason we do the opening and close of the show outside. It gives a feeling of a specific location to each show.
Here's a moody shot of the lobby in the swankest of them all, The Fairmont York. The picture doesn't really do it justice. (I didn't take it)
