As you might have noticed, there’s been a gap in postings for a while. I have my reasons.
I’ve been doing real work meanwhile. Yes, I know it’s a horrible thing but sometimes life just brings up stuff you really have to work on.
November and December brought me the 11th Black Nights Film Festival of Tallinn. On my account it has been the most successful one so far. I’ve been doing different things throughout the years and managed the information services of this year. I had a bunch of great people volunteering to host the festival cinemas and coordinate the communications between the cinemas and our festival office – all the problems, greetings and complaints of the staff, audience and partners that came up.
It taught me a valuable lesson to trust good people. After the first two days of the festival I still tried to help everybody I had assigned to the work but then found out that my presence was more disturbing than helpful – if there is a boss around, people stop making their own decisions and turn to the higher department by default, not questioning their own minds first. So I was hanging around with all the problems coming up I no longer had the answers to. They had it all in their hands, I had become oblivious of the situation.
I think it was the right way to do things, there’s no way me or my assistant could have controlled all the problems emerging in the seven cinemas around the city. Unlike last year where the festival tired me out from morning till night, this time I even had time to visit screenings and observe the situation from afar, getting the big picture.
Now looking back on the passing year I would like to give my special thanks to:
Elis Vesik, Reet Palis, Teisi Tubin, Merili Varik, Kaisa Laid, Madis Kubu, Siim Rohtla, Birgit Veskimeister, Regina Palandi, Sven Sosnitski, Martiina Putnik and Helin Kliimann.
It was great to see the successful festival you produced. Hope at least some of you decide to come back next year.
