Greetings from England - we're in town for the US premiere of 'Bata-ville: We are not afraid of the future' which we wrote, produced, directed, 'star' in and - ahem - distribute! Its playing at Dobie on Tuesday at 2pm and Thursday at 4.30 but we're also doing a Monday Studio SX interview at 5:30 with Lya Guerra and the Austin Movie Show the same day. Bata-ville's a leftfield road movie doc feature about a bus trip to the Czech Republic with some old folks - BUT its so much more interesting than that sounds. For starters we wear costumes throughout (and we'll be donning those for our TV appearances too). But one thing that makes it interesting for US audiences is that the target of the trip is the city of Zlin, the 1930's modernist town and shoe factory complex in the CR begun by one Mr Tomas Bata. Bata was one of the worlds first multinationals, starting from nowhere and founding a global corporation - in fact he is the Henry Ford of Eastern Europe.
So far in Austin we've done nothing more but have dinner and crash out at the lovely La Quinta (top marks for location but zero for broken toilet & cranky broadband connection in room!). Jetlag is fair to moderate at the mo, so we're looking forward to a pretty relaxed day doing a few of the seminars, getting the lie of the land and getting rid of the bags under our eyes. An expat friend have put us in touch with some folks involved with another doc feature here 'Summercamp' so we'll try and hook up with them too at some point. Say hi if you see us - one's blonde, ones a redhead!