SELL OUT! has just won the Young Cinema Award for Alternative Vision from the Venice Film Festival! The Young Cinema jury is made up of 80 persons aged 18-25. The Alternative Vision award is the only one we qualified for (since we were not in the Main Competition). Too bad we didn't get the Critic's Week prize but that was decided by jury of only 3 people...

Jerrica and Peter are getting mobbed by fans and autograph hunters. If you google "Peter Davis" and "$e11.ou7!" under blogs, you will find a Canadian girl with a crush on our lead actor, ha ha.

Our world premiere went very well! We actually have fans now, ha ha. People are asking for our "Sell Out!" badges and posters. And everyone's asking if we'll have a soundtrack CD :-) Our team did such great work promoting the film, especially Zoe (who's our "PR manager") and Faye (James' GF) who's our top "salesperson"!

Sell Out! Press Screening over! I'm falling asleep and running out of precious internet connection credit, but here's a quick note to say our press screening went remarkably well, judging by the laughter, happy faces and overheard comments. Of course we won't know for sure until the reviews (if any) appear.

Because our screening was packed (Zoe has a video of the long and winding queue), only Eric and I were allowed into the screening. Anyway, I'll write more tomorrow after our official World Premiere at 2PM Venice time. And maybe, for once, someone else will chip in :-)

I got stopped at these Dubai customs just now for hauling 2 reels of film in my hand-carry bag (Reels 3 and 6, to be precise). Just as I was let off, Eric came up in the queue and presented his two colourful shopping bags with 3 reels of "Sell Out!" A few steps behind was Jerrica.

We've got our printed press booklets, postcards and posters! The booklets and postcards look great... so professional, ha ha. That's because they were done by Leon, who played the ass-kissing accountant in our film but is actually a famous designer, and his designer Jiad Li.

Venice seems so far away, so many hours of sitting and waiting. I'm wondering how it would be like to travel to the Vancouver International Film Festival in late September. Or should I? I was discussing with Eric earlier. Should we attend Vancouver or the Zurich Film Festival? Our screenings are on the same day at both festivals! But we are in competition in Zurich...

Any thoughts?