Slept 13 hours last night, cats are *very* glad to have us home, still adjusting to the idea of normal life after spending three weeks in the Southern Hemisphere being on the BEST VACATION EVER. Okay, Kristi was working MAKING A MOVIE but that only enhanced my sense of enjoyment! I'm going to make an awesome Hollywood Husband!
Here's how we look at it. There was a screenwriting contest to win a trip to New Zealand to make a short film. Kristi sooo won that! There is now a second contest to judge the best short film. Okay, so that contest is very select entry - only the five winners of contest one are allowed to enter :-)
Here is what a rep of Tourism New Zealand has told us:
"We will assemble all of the 5 films and present them to Peter Jackson on the 23rd of February NZ time. We hope to get a response from him within 24 hours.
"The public announcement of the winner will not happen until the 5th March (US time) to tie in with the airing of the winning film just before the Spirit Awards on IFC."
We're hearing mixed reports about when the 5 films will go up on the TNZ website. But our understanding is that the films will be available before the winner is publicly announced, but I'm skeptical about that...
In any case, Kristi is worrying about what she should wear to the awards and I'm working on writing her speech (just in case she has to give one). 'Cuz, you know, I totally know she's going to win this second contest, too :-)
I certainly won't reveal anything before March 5 ;-) But TNZ does need to notify the winner so that she can make travel arrangements. Aya won't have any trouble since she lives in Los Angeles, but Tim and Rajneel are New Zealand natives and Andres is from Argentina. TNZ was kind enough to extend an invitation to me, should Kristi win, and I'd love to go, but that would be a LOT to ask of my employers - IT Source *wink* *wink* - because they were already super-generous letting me off to NZ.
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