There must have been 5 or 600 people there. The line went around the block. Director Athina Tsangari is VERY popular in Austin. Angela Lee, SXSW Film Programmer, said Hi to me on the way in. She's been very sweet to me during the fest.
People are so damn rude.
1,400 seats in the place and these two guys have to sit down right in front of me in the balcony. At first I thought they were Jewish but after reading more about Tsangari, I think they may have been Greek. They spoke a foreign language. Anyway, point is, I find myself being a bigot when things like that happen and thinking bigoted thoughts and that really pisses me off and makes me mad at myself. When you are a white European mutt, like myself, it's easy to feel really weird in a place where a strong showing of a certain ethnic group is prevalent.