Yesterday was the screening for the LeVar Burton film, "Reach For Me." Due to technical difficulties beyond his control, Rob got to go down to the Landmark Theater at 11:30 Sunday night to make sure everything downloaded ok and then had to screen it so that they were absolutely positive that it downloaded ok. He got home at 4:30 am. This is the first film - ever - to be 4K from start to finish, so on that account and to the technical people in the film world, this was a pretty big deal and, apparently, worth staying up most the night for.
I arrived for the reception Monday night and Rob was busy chatting up a reporter so I talked with Dan Rosen the Dalsa wizard, and Tony Rastatter, one of Rob's employees at Warner Bros. I love that we have an alternate connections with Tony. Our first house was across the street from Tony's mother. She was the woman with the blue fairytale cottage who used to invite the girls and I over for tea parties. Fifteen years after we'd moved away, we went to Tony's birthday party at a bowling alley and he introduces us to "mom." We looked at mom. Mom looked at us. We don't need an introduction. We go way back. Too cool.
Dan brought LeVar over to meet me and LeVar exclaimed, "Annie Hummel!" and gave me a kiss on both cheeks. When I told him I'd heard that he'd kissed my husband a few days ago (which he did) he said, "I will kiss every Hummel that I ever meet from now on! I'm naming my next child, 'Hummel'! I love your husband!" Well, that kind of spousal report card is hard to beat.
Turns out, a lot of people there loved 4K and the Dalsa camera and LeVar's kiss turned out to be the beginning of a big 4K/Dalsa/Sony lovefest. They had a panel afterwards, moderated by Carolyn Giardina of the Hollywood Reporter, who is the only person that reports consistently and knowledgeably on the technical side of film. It was all about Origin cameras, Codex recorders, LTO-3 tape, with a little Baselight 8 and Sony 4k SRXR-220 thrown in. In other words, well, it was all in other words.
When we left the auditorium, everyone was handed a "Cinco de Mayo" tequila sample for the road which seemed perhaps a questionable decision to say the least. This was followed by Dan, Rob, and I leaving the projectionist booth and noticing the sign on the INSIDE of the door which reads: "No alcoholic beverages beyond this point." In other words, keep the alcohol inside the projection booth. This explains a lot.
It was a long but satisfying evening. I left clutching my tequila sample, happy and very very proud of Rob. As my dad would say, my buttons were bursting.
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