1st Day
12:30 am: Sagging guest air-matress makes visiting emerging narrative filmmaker appreciate his marriage, bed.
2nd Day
7:50AM : Filmmaker increases introspection due to absence of friends.
8:00AM: Man opposite filmmaker on subway gels hair like porcupine.
8:30AM: 36 year old Filmmaker returns to New York City where he once felt young and inexperienced, feels old and out of place, missed sweet spot.
4:30PM: Leaving Winter’s Bone panel, I walk into the strangely open and art supporting arms of this building for a drink with Chris Ohlson and Gregory Collins, here with their film Melvin. If only the world would treat my whereabouts with such accurate signage:
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Steve Collins, Rooftop alum, is a filmmaker with a script titled The Garden at the IFP Project Forum. He’s blogging for Rooftop this week. Read more about him
