A DOC'S JOURNAL by Scott Solary

We got to Bev’s around 10am and had some coffee and discussed the day ahead of us. We decided to talk about some of the more emotionally upsetting things today and get them out of the way. Ten minutes into the interview, just as Bev is recounting a very sensitive time in her childhood, our key light went out. We set up another light as fast as we could and resumed taping. Bev hasn’t told her story in great detail before and it proves to be difficult, but she gets through it. The lights we bought for the shoot are proving to be cheap and very brittle. Live and learn. After 4 hours, we’re all very drained. We decide it would probably best for everyone if Luci and I go to the hotel and let Bev be with her family.

It’s difficult to explain the impact of listening to someone’s trauma when you aren’t a professional therapist. It’s a consequence I foresaw before embarking on the film, but after a day like today, I’m smacked in the face (and heart) with the after effects. Luci and I feed ourselves and relax the best we can. This will prove to be the most difficult day of taping so far.

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First day of Beverly interview. Took us longer than we planned to set up, but we knew everything was going to stay the same over the next few days so we wanted to get it right. Today was going to functions as an “overview” interview. Bev was going to roughly tell us the complete story. It would serve as an icebreaker for all of us. She did great. She seemed very relaxed and went into much more detail than she had planned. At the end of the day, we were all exhausted. Bev cooked dinner for us. Delicious Frutte del Mar. Luci and I went back to the hotel and watched the footage.

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Luci and I shared driving duties into Burlington, Ontario. We got to Bev’s house around 9:30. We made the trip in 9 hours. Bev had dinner waiting. Delicious winter vegetable curry stew over couscous. We met Ernie her husband and Nicole her daughter. They were very friendly and nice people.

We feel the rest of the time there will be good. After finding out the beer stores close at 10pm and we were late, we checked into the hotel and watched some TV.

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Drove to Manhattan to drop off keys to Jimmy and pick up equipment from John. While giving the keys to Jimmy outside Indiewire’s office, a cop was strapping Buster to his tow truck. I arrived in the nick of time to save him. He let Buster off the truck (a miracle of sorts) but “had” to give me the $95 ticket. Expensive trip to the city.

Dropped by Steve’s house in Brooklyn and picked up the fresnel to use in the interview. Packed up for the trip. Checked and double checked everything. Feeling very anxious.

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Took the car in to be tuned-up for the trip. First time into the garage we get good news. All is well with “Buster” (our car) and he’s ready to go. Received all the releases from Innes (our amazing lawyer) and had a phone call to discuss our questions. She’s so very helpful and great at explaining language and phrases we don’t understand. Luci and I do some more prep for our trip.

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They say the first is always the most awkward.

So bear with me while I attempt to blog here.

I'm not much a theater goer, but I watch movies incessantly. I'm hooked on Netflix and just recently got cable (to do necessary research for a documentary I'm directing, of course) so don't expect anything here about what's new, hot and cool. Well, expect the cool, but not new and hot. The day there's a smoking lounge theatre bar for $10 that a subway doesn't roar by every ten minutes and that has seats that don't hurt my ass after half an hour, I'll be first in line all the time, but it doesn't look like any of that will be happening in New York anytime soon. Especially the smoking part.

I'll leave the new and hot to all my fellow better qualified bloggers.

So I'm just posting this one to get it started, take a look and contemblog some more on what exactly I'll post here.

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