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Jan 25 2007

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by Doreen Ringer Ross

We went to see Andrew Wagner’s film “Starting Out In The Evening” today which was scored beautifully by Adam Gorgoni.  It was just a remarkable, moving, intelligent film and I will let the glowing reviews it got in Variety and The Hollywood Reporter speak for themselves. When Andrew got up to introduce the film, he was so emotionally overcome, he could barely speak.  The whole audience felt for him.  Working so hard for so long to get a film made and then having it premiere at Sundance is such an intense experience.  While the quest for distribution plays itself out…sometimes people forget that these filmmakers have so much more than money invested in these films.

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Screenwriter Fred Parnes, Adam Gorgoni, Doreen Ringer Ross and Andrew Wagner (Director, “Starting Out In The Evening”)

That night, we did our infamous seat switching dinner at Zoom.  Steve Solomon and his crew at Zoom are just the best!  Can you imagine trying to serve dinner to sixty people who are switching seats between courses?  It’s like trying to dress a running man.  It takes a certain kind of spirit to accommodate that kind of craziness and all I can say is THANK YOU GUYS!!!  Zoom rocks!  We all always have a blast at this dinner.  This year my big thrill was having Donovan join us.  I’ve always been such a huge fan of his all my life.  It just made my day. I think I will let the pictures tell the rest of the story.

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Donovan, Doreen Ringer Ross, Terence Blanchard, and Executive Director of the Sundance Institute Ken Brecher

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Moxie Firecracker Films’ Julie Gaithe, BMI’s Doreen Ringer Ross, The Ghost of Abu Ghrabe’s writer Jack Youngleson, composer Miriam Cutler, and editor Sari Gilman

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Director Judith Helfand, composer Stephen Cavit (Everything’s Cool) & Doreen Ringer Ross

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BMI’s Ray Yee, Don Davis, Doreen Ringer Ross and George S Clinton

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