- Kevin’s up in the clouds doing the judging thing at Sundance this year. He was kind enough to take a moment to check in with everyone with some thoughts on what’s been going on. Here he is:
That’s what Sundance is like. People always talk about the films and the like, but most fail to mention that we’re at 7000 or so feet, and there’s very little to breathe – what with all the cell-phoners gabbing away between (and sometimes during) screenings, about God-only-knows what (I swear – I think some people use cell phones up here publicly just to seem more important; because who the fuck do they need to talk to that badly?).
Then there’s the flicks thus far, which – because I’m a juror – I can’t speak about freely. I can say that I’ve seen two competition flicks so far, with two more to see today. I’ve also seen two Premiere Screenings (‘What’s Cooking’ and ‘American Psycho’). When all’s done, I think I will have seen over twenty flicks during my ten day jaunt here.
We screen a trailer we made for the Cartoon up here on Monday. It’s a first-look for the press. Should be fun, what with the history (I mean, this is where ‘Clerks’ was sort of born – at least as the world would know it).
The day before I trod up here, we showed the network the first episode, mixed with James Venables score (he who makes the music for ‘Powerpuff Girls’). As we were heading in, a couple of working actors I’m familiar with were coming out of the Presidents’ (there are two of them) office, after having pitched a project of their own (‘A People’s History of the U.S.’). We invited Matt and Ben (and Chris Moore, their producer) in with us to watch the show (hey man – it never hurts to have a pair of America’s most beloved young stars chuckling with your shit in front of powerful people). The word from on high was that the network loved the show. Now it’s a matter or scheduling it somewhere, but hey – the first big hurdle (sp?) has been leapt. I offer a big congrats to the ‘Clerks’ team, and a little one to myself as well (hey man, I deserve it at this point).
But the real news is that Illinois Wesleyan (sp?) University asked me to be the commencement speaker this year. I felt honored for that alone, but then they sweetened the deal…
They’re bestowing on me a Doctorate in Humanities.
That’s right! From now on, call me…
Doctor Smith.
“Oh dear!”
Sounds like things are going great. We can’t wait to catch some moving footage of the Clerks series ourselves. And we’re sure there’s a bunch of excited Illinois grads out there now, too.
By the by, for the best Sundance coverage on the web, be sure to check out Indiewire. They’ve got up to the minute stuff going on over there, including an interesting report on a film director who’s giving out an exclusive line of “indieMON” trading cards (one of which is Kevin) to promote his flick. Wacky stuff.
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