If Jeffrey Wells can do it — in a piece titled Early TIFF Screenings…Please? — why can’t we, right? (Yes, we’d also jump off a cliff if everyone did so too; obviously we’re lemmings and semi-desperate). The Hollywood Elsewhere writer has been doing his best to ask around publicly on his blog if there are any early press screenings of films in New York before the Toronto Int. Film Festival. If you’re attending like he is, there’s just so much good stuff to see, you want to do as much advance homework as you can so you can hopefully see everything (impossible, but…)
But as you might have heard on his site, our application to TIFF was rejected. Yes, boo hoo us. Such is life and no, we’re not complaining, shit ain’t fair, we know that all too well. However, given the situation, we too will also shamelessly ask publicly if any of you publicists reading out there (all 1.5 of you) will take pity on us and let us know if there are any pre-TIFF screenings you’re handling as we are attending the festival, but we will be doing so on our own dime without a press badge (yes, we are oh-so heroic), but not for the entire duration (part of the second week). Essentially we’ll be buying tickets like everyone else.
But, if you do happen to know of screenings from TIFF happening in New York beforehand or feel like listing us for press or public screenings during the festival, feel free to email us and send us an invite (or to just “nyah, nyah” or delight in schadenfreude at us too). We’d appreciate it if/when you did. If not, no one is worse for wear except for us for having to endure the indignity of public groveling, heh. Yes, we know how transparently desperate this sounds.
