Road to Tribeca 2007

The 2007 Tribeca International Film Festival starts 2 weeks from tomorrow!! This will be my fifth year attending, and I have come to adopt a few traditions. On-line ticket sales started Saturday. In my memory, every year but one, the website takes a dive the minute the box office opens. Traditionally, it all sorts out in a few hours and all goes well. My stress is that some of the things I want tickets to are popular, so I feel a frantic need to get my order in quickly (as it was, two films I wanted were sold out). My traditional "freak out when the website is down" happened Saturday morning, accompanied by the phone call to my daughter who traditionally assures me "everything will work out fine". It always does.

Today I got the confirmation e-mail, assuring me that my ticket choices are now secure, with the cheery line at the end, "See you at the festival!" I believe that is personally directed at me, and the folks at TIFF can't wait for me to arrive! Oddly enough, I traditionally do run into a few festival staffers. The films are often introduced by one of the programmers or staff members. They always introduce themselves. If you go to enough films, you see many of the same people over and over again. On a few occasions, I have run into these folks on the street, and stare with my "you look familiar, but who are you?" look. They are all so friendly, that when I do that they traditionally smile and say hello. For an event in such a large city, it's things like this, that make this festival so appealing to me. Can't wait! Funny thing is, the first film I'm seeing was filmed in RI! .... more on that later ......