Recognition of merit from any film festival of note lends a measure of credibility and marketability to their film, and hand-to-mouth indie filmmakers need all the pats on the back they can get.
Ask any music critic about garage bands and he/she will tell you they're an important part of the process of creating music that's raw, vital and unfiltered. Many of the films shown at Worldfest, Leydon said, are garage-band movies. This implies they aren't all first-rate achievements in each and every way, but that they deserve a measure of respect. I agreed with him.
I sniffed around and dug in and gave it a whirl. I don't know what that means, but I saw six or seven half-decent, fairly intriguing films -- Letia Miller's In the Dark, Matthew Marconi's Truce, Shira-Lee Shalit's The A-List, Paul Richards' Pamplona: Running with the Bulls, Chris Page's Into the Wind, and Robert Peters' Half Empty. I'll be seeing the Buchholz doc on Monday.
A week before leaving for Houston I spoke to Page, whose Into The Wind doc is about a few spirited Texans (i.e., Page and his friends) pursuing their love of powered paragliding. The charm is in the unassuming home movie-ish feel of it.
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