The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival has ended. Of the one hundred films that were shown, I was able to watch thrity of them.

The staff and the volunteers @ BSDFF were amazing. No one had a meltdown, even when things were seemingly falling apart around us. We held it together and pulled it off without any visable hitches. So many great films, so many wonderful people. I met people from all over the world, made some lasting friends, and am very much looking forward to next year’s festival.

For me, outside of the films, the most fun part of volunteering was working in a variety of different positions. I signed up for as much as I could, and I enjoyed all of them: passline, usher, film projector, merchandise table, will-call window, shuttle driver, filmaker’s lounge. And there plenty of not-in-the-job-description things that came up as well. It was fun to discover what those were, and to pitch in where I could.

I didn’t sleep much, as was the case for many of us working the festival. The big sacrifice for me was that I made almost no progress on the art exhibition that opens a week from today. Time to buckle down and get to it. Here’s the todo list:

1. Cut mats: 8
2. Cut glass: 7
3. Finish collages: 7
4. Assemble art into frames: 9
5. Create marketing materials
6. Blast email
7. Print marketing materials
8. Notify events calenders
9. Mass mailing
10. Consult with Burley’s Mercantile about music/food/ other logistics
11. Buy one piece of glass, 47.25″ x 28″

I think that’s it. I’ll be pretty busy these next several days. I’ll post progress here, as well as previews of works in progress.