Recently the movie Transiberian premiered at the Boston Independent Film Festival. The Russian detective in the movie Ben Kingsley was there for the event. He said it was a challenge playing such a dark figure in this Hitchcockian type thriller. Afterwards several of my friends came along to the film party. We met Sir Ben and other filmmakers.
One guy was doing a documentary about machine guns in Boston. This woman I met teaches film studies at a local College. There were other local filmmakers there who we know from the scene which is very active in Boston. Tomorrow there is a seminar on working on the local film industry and Sunday some of us are going to see Twelve: a collecton of shorts from Boston filmmakers.
The festival will be covered by Imagine Magazine which is a very important part of the resurgence in filmmaking in Massachusetts.
