LA Film Festival!

[memento1]

Okay guys, I'm finally doing my LA Filmfest write-up. It's a little late, but better late than never, right?

I had to work Sunday morning, so when I got off at 1:00 I booked it out of there to pick up lunayoshi. That was pretty awesome! We squeed...a lot. And listened to krisnreine's Walking in Memphis mix. And squeed some more. ;) It's so awesome to meet other philes in Real Life! So, after about an hour's drive we reached Laguna Hills and picked up balmyone. 3 philes in one car! It was all too much to handle. The rest of the trip went off without a hitch, though we of course hit LA traffic and reached the theater at about 4. We managed to get FREE parking pretty close-by, which was awesome. We found the theater and there was a gaggle of fans standing a few businesses away. balmyone had met some of them the night before (they had a meet-up! I'm so sad I didn't get to go), so we stopped and chatted for a bit. And I met erock_x! I may have squeed. But then again, I was squeeing a lot all-around. ;) They had made some big thank you posters for David, Chris, and Frank (Frank's was the biggest because he's so good to the fans, hehe) so we signed those. I may have put "David Duchovny, Why won't you love me?" on David's. *L* They said the theater wouldn't let them form a line in front, so they had started their own line a little ways down the block, though at that point there was only about 20 of us. lunayoshi, balmyone and I wanted to sit down for a while and watch some videos, so we wandered off to a Starbucks for a bite to eat. I had my laptop and lunayoshi had been spoiler-free, so we made her watch the trailer, the adorable M&S promos, and an erock video ;)

I brought season 5 on DVD with me, but I had Small Potatoes on my laptop so we watched that. It was outside at a busy intersection so the sound wasn't that good, but that was a ton of fun! After dropping my laptop off at the car and picking up my camera, we went back to the theater only to discover the line had grown exponentially. We met up with the girls we had met earlier, but some very pushy people had wrangled their way in front of them, so we were still near the front, but a ways back. We grumbled and moaned about this but it was all for the best in the end. ;) I was deliriously happy to be surrounded by so many other fans, so I took a photo of the line behind us.



There were as many people in front of us, and the line just kept growing! At some point it started going around the block. For some reason, the con organizers decided to move the line to the opposite side of the theater, which left us in the sun. They were supposed to let us in to the theater 15 minutes beforehand, but 7 'o clock comes and goes and we're still waiting outside! It was quite awesome, though. I couldn't believe I was there, surrounded by philes and going to see DD and CC and movie clips! As said, I squeed. A lot. We broke into song a few times, and there's nothing like belting out "Jeremiah was a bullfrog" with a bunch of fans. Oh! An I met dictatorcari! I was keeping my eyes peeled for her "My Name is dictatorcari" sticker, and she was standing right beside me the entire time! I took a picture of her sticker before I realized it's not entirely appropraite to point a camera at someone's chest without asking. *L* Here's dictatorcari!



And her sticker ;)



Mya!



I want this photo's companion, Mya. *L*



lunayoshi and balmyone!



Me!! *LOL*



And here's the signs we signed, and were given to David, Chris, and Frank during the event.



A few minutes after 7, we discover why it's so late - DD has just pulled in! They had a little red carpet area for press photos right in front of the theater, so as the line starts moving in, DD is walking up to it right next to us! I SWEAR he was walking up with Tea, but no one else saw this and I can't see her in my footage, so maybe I'm wrong? Anyways, we were all going NUTS because DD is RIGHT THERE and the line is going so fast and we just want to stop and snag a photo. The con people were rudely trying to keep the line moving as fast as possible, so I tried to snag a few photos as we walked 10 FEET AWAY FROM HIM! Turns out my camera was set on video mode, so instead of pics, I got a disjointed video. *L*

David! Right there! *whimper* I just wish we could have stopped and basked in the proximity of David Duchovny. Best part of the evening right there! So, once we were inside the theater we rushed up trying to get good seats, but everyone was saving all the good seats and more people were streaming in by the second, so we grabbed what we could. We ended up on the far right about half-way back. Not terrible seats but not great, either. Here's dictatorcari in the seats in front of us:



And lunayoshi and balmyone beside me:



I was sending frantic texts and almost called in for a quick squealing voice post when the event started. A Filmfest representative welcomed us and announced the guests (to which we all screamed), and then the clips started, that I posted earlier. It was so cool to watch clips with other die-hard fans, all gasping at the same parts and reacting to the same things. After the clips, the trio came out to screaming applause. I was so far back my pitiful flash and zoom could hardly get a photo. I gave up after 2 tries.



My videos are slightly better, but so much footage has been posted I'm not going to bother uploading it. If you really want to see it, though, just say the word.

So, the rest of the evening went by rather quick. Chris was quiet, David looked bored, Frank looked thrilled. Chris hardly said a word the entire time, and the other 2 kept checking in with him to see how much they could say. Nothing was revealed, or at least nothing we hadn't already heard. It was fun listening to them, though. And Gia was there! ranee42, am I leaving out anything important? Hehe.

So, when they left stage at the end there was a mad rush to the front to see DD, but we didn't even make it partway up before he was gone, and then we rushed to the exit to get our posters. As we passed out the door we each received a poster, but outside we realized they only had Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz's signatures. We went back to try to trade them in for ones with David's on them. I convinced the lady mine had a rip (it didn't) and got a new poster, only to realize that didn't have David's signature either. I pleaded with her until she pulled out some badly water-damaged posters with all 3 signatures. I gladly exchanged it, so now even though mine's all torn and wrinkled and frumpy, it has David Duchovny's signature!!



Someone wrote "Don't give up!" along the side, and while that may mean "Don't give these out because they're damaged", I prefer to believe Chris wrote it, as it's in the same color sharpie and David DID mention that Chris had a 3-word tagline that inspired him. Okay, so that's a long shot - leave me my delusions! ;)

All in all, it was a fantastic night. I got within 10 feet of David Duchovny, I saw movie clips, and I met a whole bunch of awesome philes! Thanks for the memories, everyone, and hopefully we'll meet again later! Check out their write-ups:

lunayoshi
balmyone
erock_x
dictatorcari

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[memento1.livejournal.com]

I never thought I'd get to do anything like this! I lived in Minnesota during the original run, and when I finally moved out to LA the show was long gone. Then Wondercon was too far away and I was moving during PaleyFest, so I just could NOT pass up this opportunity. I won't even get to go to the premiere, as I will be racing to the airport to catch a flight. Darn it! But I'm so glad I got this one shining opportunity of a lifetime.