I had the pleasure of attending Reelworld Film Festival's 1st of it's monthly networking series at Harlem Restaurant in Toronto. It's a great idea to get people out on a regular basis and hopefully connect people that can create future works for the festival. Tonya Lee Williams the founder of the Reelworld Film Festival was on hand to launch the monthly event. Each networking evening will feature an artist that will talk about their experiences. The first artist was Music Video director RT who has worked on many of the big Hip Hop artists music videos and has been nominated for MMVA awards. Some of his clients include Cardinal Offishal and Danny Fernandes. He spoke about living life and looking at things differently through the lens of a camera. Something I can relate to. The networking evenings will be held on the 3rd wednesday of each month at Harlem restaurant so I hope you can check it out next month.
Some filmmaker friends in attendance were the talented Charles Officer and Ada Wong and also there to support was filmmaker Suds Sutherland. I met Charles Officer at Reelworld many years ago and run into him every now and then at Reelworld and other festivals and events around town. He is a beautiful man who I am happy to see get some great attention paid to his film Nurse, Fighter, Boy. Although I haven't had a chance to see it yet I hope to see it on DVD soon.
Support Filmmakers and these events and they will return the favour by providing you with some great entertainment in the future.
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