 Hi, I'm Leslie McVane and I'm here today with Ned Swain the president of local muscle moving movers Yeah, well, yeah Well, we're here not to talk so much about the moving company But the fact that this is the third year you've done a film festival. Yeah, and it's exciting. Yeah Tell us a little bit about it Well, this so this is the third year we Started it the first one was at Geno's Rock Club it was kind of a Hair-brained idea that we that we had just that a lot of the people that work for us are Artists musicians and a lot of us that some of the people involved in the company have backgrounds in drama and film So we were looking for something fun to do to promote ourselves and thought we could spend a bunch of money on running Television advertisements or something, you know that kind of the normal thing or we could do something that was a lot of fun That would you know be more exciting and kind of like do something more creative in the community And it certainly caught my eye that first year. I submitted something that was in the festival that year and I know it's grown Now the first two years the theme was love because you do it around Valentine's Day, right this year I think you've sort of been a little more relaxed about that. Yeah, we decided to move away from that That framework a little bit So the films that are submitted this year don't have to be about romance or love Just we figure doing the film festival right around Valentine's Day the weekend afterwards It's still the local love muscle Valentine's Day film festival and It's a thing to go out and do if you're you know, if you don't want to do the normal couple going out to a restaurant kind of You know Valentine's Day thing. It's a more relaxed less overtly romantic thing to do and you've been kind of you know, sort of Cutting edge really. I mean this is different, you know that a moving company is sponsoring this and you also take your moving truck out Into the streets and do art art shows our truck. Yeah. Yeah, and and it's sort of a pop-up Our gallery. Yeah, right and the festival too. Where's it going to be this year this year? It's going to be at Space Gallery. Mm-hmm. Yeah, we're really excited about that last year was Empire that worked out great but We kind of had our our eye on Space Gallery for for a while one of the other partners of the company works at Space Gallery and stuff So we had some connections there And it's Sunday the 16th Sunday the 16th from yep Doors open at seven. I think the film festival is actually going to start at 7 30 Should run for about an hour hour and a half Depending on we're still editing the final, you know the final cut putting all the submissions together There'll be a an intermission in the middle of it and will most of the filmmakers be there I think so. Yeah, there it looks like pretty much all of the filmmakers are local and we've We've been in touch with them for the past couple of months. So will there be an in a chance for Audience interaction with the with the producers with the make filmmakers before or after the show Um Not in a real organized way You know a lot of the filmmakers will be there So certainly at the intermission people can talk to them and ask them questions And then there'll be the awards at the end of it. And you know, so they'll all they'll have to get up and Accept their awards and talk to everybody and that'll be exciting Well, we're we're one of your sponsors this year and we're hoping that next year the festival may be right here in our studio We've got a big screen now and uh, it would be wonderful and exciting to have that going So we'll see how that works in the meantime if people want to learn more about the festival And and maybe get working toward submission next year. How do they get in touch with you? Our website localmusclemovers.com. Uh, that's there's a whole piece on the website about the film festival and then also our facebook page localmusclemovers on facebook We've been putting a lot of constant updates to you know, build the excitement on there and putting the event on there I think it's great, but really the you know People don't have to get in touch with us Now or beforehand we'll have essentially the same rules next year just approximate 10 minute run So they'll they'll have an idea and we also have a web page for you On our ctn website with some of the bios of the filmmakers Yeah, we look for more and we're going to be running the festival on the on the network and some of the past years Right. Yeah, we're already getting ready to do that. Yeah Well, thanks med. I'm looking forward to sunday night and hope everyone in our audience can can join us there Great. Thanks a lot Leslie