‘IFHY’ Screens Opening Night at SSFF

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
by Zak Forsman

Opening Night screening -

I have never, ever had such a fulfilling experience with an audience. And I think this is why SouthSide is such a great venue… their audience HUNGRY for these kind of films. As IFHY played down, I was astonished at how engaged the audience was — this compared to the screening recently in LA where the reception was good, but not overwelmingly so.

Jamie said she got the impression that John T. Woods hooked the women in the audience first. and that the initial laughs came from them when “ron and carol” are on the doorstep. then later, when “ron” sings the song, the guys (probably identifying with him a great deal at this point) really get into it. the song ended to applause. and that is a great feeling, when you get an applause mid-scene, well before the credits roll.

i’ll post a snippet of video showing the audience reaction in a bit (jamie videotaped it). it’s taking FCP on my laptop forever to crunch thru the HDV codec.