If you want to celebrate your fellow story-tellers at a class Orange County event, make sure to set aside 5 days next year, around this time to attend the 2nd Annual Anaheim International Film Festival.
Through the brilliance of our fearless leader Mark Sevi agreeing to sponsor the shorts programs, I spent four days at the Anaheim International Film Festival viewing some 16 film shorts - and there was not a bad one in the bunch.
Some of the subject matter did not particularly appeal to me BUT they were uniformly of high production value and the narratives all well written. There were approximately 80 in all, spread over 10 sessions and I had only intended to attend one day, two tops. Next year I may just take a sleeping bag there as there was so much high quality on the screen, it would have been great to see a lot more. I also managed to squeeze in a workshop session and 3 feature length titles, including the one tonight, "Under The Boardwalk: The Monopoly Story" which I understand one top honors for long form documentary.
I think I also saw what will be the winner for short form presentations, "She Wore Silver Wings" the story of the largly unsung volunteer female pilots who ferried all manner of military aircraft (from fighters to bombers) from the factories to where they could be turned over to combat pilots.
