Saturday 08 September 2007: Heidi and Sarah finally walk the red carpet and watch the big screen for 8 hours at the Oostend Film Festival...

Sarah says:
Heidi and I spent the day in Oostend yesterday with Nico and Marv at the Oostend Film Festival from 2 till midnight, watching series, documentaries, movies and concerts... We started with the whole disc one of season one of the series Weeds. We all enjoyed it those three hours a lot. It's a fun series with good characters and dialogue. I want to see more now! After that we saw the Leonardo Dicaprio eco-documentary The 11th Hour. Like Al Gore's eco-doc, this one makes you think. We all walked away wondering what we each could do in our own lives to ease the pressure on the environment. The documentary was pieced together by interview excerpts with many environmental experts. It was very clearly presented and not overbearing. I recommend it. After that we saw the comedy Knocked Up, directed by Freaks & Geeks Judd Apatow and starred in by F&G"s Seth Rogan, who also has a movie out called Superbad, which Heidi and I have to see soon! We really enjoyed Knocked Up. There were so many familiar faces from Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared, two series we 100% love! Those guys and gals feel like old friends. Their jokes are good. Fun! Fun! Fun! After that Heidi and Nico went to see Planet Terror and Marv and I saw a food documentary called Our Daily Bread, which was accompanied by a live performance by the Belgian band D.A.U.U.. The music served the film well. It was image after image of the farms and factories where our food comes from. It interspersed images of migrant vegetable pickers with factory workers using major machinery to stun, kill , skin and cut open cos and pigs. It was sometimes unsettling of course - especially having seen the eco-documentary earlier in the day. Gave us lots of things to think about. I come away thinking that there are way too many people on this earth and we are tapping way too many resources from oil to pigs. I don't get why we are pressured to reproduce. There should be fewer of us, not more. If you see all these animals being raised for our consumption - our daily bread - and know that the people working in those factories can hardly afford to buy a steak and that so little of the world is eating all this stuff -- it's a bit maddening. There is such a serious imbalance and it makes me a little sick. We should all be able to have the same food. We should all be able to have the same amount of oil, water and electricity. What gets me is that we tap, tap, tap on all these resources and distribute the wealth to so very few. There is way too much poverty and disease all over the world and meanwhile all these farms and factories are running and running to feed the rich basically and leave the scraps and unhealthy shit for the poorer of us. If the world caved in on itself tomorrow, it would all make sense. As the documentary said, the earth will always go on and start again - but we humans will be extinct very quickly if you look at the big picture...


Above you can finally see a photo of Heidi and at the sea, free as old birds... It was a nice sunny day - and we sat in a dark movie theater all day!


And finally above, we couldn't help but get a photo of ourselves with The Simpsons!