Cleveland Film Festival

I went to the Cleveland Film Festival on Wednesday and I made a total day out of it. My sister and I went shopping at Tower City and saw a short film series. I have to say it wasn't at all what I expected. I can't even explain what I envisioned, but everything about the festival was different. Maybe it is in the word "festival--" I may be thinking of a carnival related event! However, the films we watched were decent. Some were really weird and even quite random, but out of 9, I enjoyed 4 of them.
I was taken aback at the price of the tickets--$10. They must have made some good money because when I went there were at least 150 people in the formation of lines. I didn't expect to see a classmate, but I saw Caitlin across the way, but we didn't see the same film. At my film showing, at the end of it, the audience was asked to rate them on a sheet of paper and I felt bad because a lot of people walked out ignoring their request.
Overall, my experience was not bad, not excellent, but worth the try. I got to speak to some people waiting in line who were actually members of the board of education somewhere (I forget), but it they were really interested in talking to me about how the education department at KSU is and what kind of classes I am taking in preparation of teaching. I always love to brag about myself and my plans for teaching especially to actual professionals in the field!
The films I viewed were definitely not suited for children and I was surprised about a lot of the humor and concepts. In the short film I wrote about in my Film Review, I wrote about Pig, and a brief synopsis can be found here. Basically, the film is called Pig because a woman, Ines, after about 20 years of being raped, confronts her rapist at his house with his pregnant wife and daughter, only to end up carving the word "Pig" in his thigh. It was extremely dramatic and hard to predict.