Alex’s Palo Alto Festival is in full swing right now, and while we’ll certainly have a bigger post to wrap it up, here is a little update.
We took Page to her first real cinema experience yesterday. The film was Adventures in Zambezia in 3D, an animation from South Africa with voices by Abigail Breslin and Samuel L Jackson. Alex introduced the film and hosted the Q&A and even managed to squeeze in a joke at my expense…
With the 3D came the 3D glasses –
Our resident hipster said “Wow!” about a hundred times in the 15 minutes that she watched before getting fidgety.
Did you know that owl’s have three eyelids? No? Page does.
One of the innovations at this year’s festival is a real time interactive quiz as a prelude to each of the films. It’s a great way to get the audience involved while they are waiting and I’m pretty sure you’ll see more of it. As for the owls, I had no idea of the answer to that question in the quiz, so I asked Page. Props!
Other highlights so far include one of the Oscar winners that Alex keeps in her back pocket making this for the 30th anniversary outdoor screening of ET (“Teapot” according to Page)
Girl in Variety’s not bad either –
