All eyes are on Beijing National Stadium.
An estimated one billion TV viewers worldwide.
The opening ceremony for The Games of the XXIX Olympiad
features an estimated 15,000 performers
and lasts for four-and-a-half spellbinding hours.
The Chinese, may Shangdi bless them, have pulled out all the stops.
Elsewhere, away from the media glare and the much-maligned smog,
there’s another opening ceremony going on
in the city of Hermosa Beach in Los Angeles County.
Here, in the Beach Volleyball Capital of the world,
they’re holding their very own three-day independent short film festival.
There’s a large inflatable cinema screen set-up on the manicured sand.
And the film they’ve chosen to open proceedings with, is my film.
Sure, it’s not a Silver Bear or A Golden Lion or a Hugo or a Palme d’Or,
but the organisers of this three-day independent short film festival
have chosen to award my film the gong for this year’s "Best Screenplay".
My good buddy Shawn Tyler Dufraine has kindly agreed to
jump in his Chevy K5 Blazer and drive the 5 blocks from his condo
to pick-up the prize, in my stead, from the Playhouse on Pier Avenue.
He’s no Sacheen Cruz Littlefeather, but he’s the closest thing
to an Apache Indian civil-rights protester that I can find at short notice.
The temperature in the city of Hermosa Beach today is 80°F.
Humidity is 52%. Visibility is unlimited. The wind is reportedly calm.
Hermosa Shorts Film Festival
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