How's that film festival going? Real class act. Some shady promoter rents a community theatre that seats 150 or so, pleas on Facebook for donations and sponsors, begs for ticket sales and calls it a "festival". Who's the charity anyway? I see no mention. The participants pay to get in. The sponsors pay to get in. The attendees pay to get in... Also on Facebook are indications of what a rinky dink event it is.
This week they posted a plea for donations because they needed a new projector. LOL They also asked for local residents to put up rooms for participants who couldn't afford hotels. The headline speaker cancelled this week due to other commitments and they just announced the much promoted gaming expo was cancelled this morning due to sound issues. Then there was a request on Thursday for volunteers to work the MRIB "VIP" lounge as servers. Guess MRIB didn't bother sending anyone or arranging anything. Margrit must have headed straight to Barcelona or just simply didn't care. Maybe the two old men doing community events in Orange County couldn't make the trip. Or maybe MRIB is just plain out of business and there's no one left to attend to these matters.
There is a picture of the Marani VIP area (a 10X10 push up tents cheap banner, couple of photo copies taped up and a card table) in what must be the parking lot of the community theatre and some unknown hombo who appears to be a local selling festival t-shirts. Not a single other person or sponsor around. The area looks like it might have cost at least $40 to put together. LOL
Yup just another outrageously exaggerated POS event that ranks right up there with a no-name fashion show put on by Zodiac, a boat race no one saw and an open mic rapper night in a Seattle dive bar. Oh let's not forget the unknown rapper at the gay bar in Long Beach! LOL I can't even imagine what the party in Armenia really is. Margrit and a couple of friends and relatives sitting in a living room in Yerevan with a laptop, pot luck spread, drinking Marani and watching the teaser/trailer for a movie that the studio hasn't released yet. LOL
What's next? PTA meetings and Little League games? "Red carpet" sponsorship for the Tustin Community theatre's presentation of Guys and Dolls?
