"Not much sleep, quality setting, people walking out of our screening, me offending 2 ridiculous women... "
Hey Birty! Not so fast! People walking out of our screening? But when the lights went up at the end for the Q&A (and a good time was had by all - me and Michael got so much applause at the end that I nearly fell of the stage with all the bowing - and no, I was not drunk...) there was just about as many there as at the start. And that was a Sunday night when the start of the screening had been delayed for more than an hour, so the film didn't finish till nearly 11pm - with a Q&A still to come. Some people have to go to work you know - even in Cornwallshire. No, it was more a case of bladder trouble caused by the venues bar and its 'real ale' - or 'Southern piss' as you kept referring to it. And also to the fact that they let you take drinks into the auditorium - how many times did you go to the bar during the screening? Was it three, or was it four? So yes, there were people going out and coming in again!
As far as festival director, John Wojowski was concerned, Bad Lad was the most challenging film in the whole festival and it 'really socked it to the Southern softies'.
Any way 5,332 Chinese fans can't be wrong....