Robin Schlaht awarded

 This evening our department awarded local filmmaker Robin Schlaht the first ever MPS Distinguished Alumni award. He then screened a great looking 35mm print of his feature "Solitude" at the RPL and we had a relaxed and engaging reception at the Artesian. I've not been in the basement of the Artesian before, it has the bar and some super swank couches. The film students wisely grabbed up the best places to sit. I hoped they learned that from us. Dennis and Melanie Jackson came in and I had lots of time to talk to them about the upcoming feature length "Wapos Bay" finale and their new series which starts shooting in the spring. They were fortunate to get Gordon Tootoosis to record his voice for his character before passing away earlier this year. Gordon's brother needed to record the Cree dub of the character as it was done later.

This afternoon I ordered in 20 rolls of super-8 film for a not-yet-announced new screening event.