Kate and Kathryn take on the Sun Valley Film Festival! Niki and I always have our names misspelled so we have decided to give ourselves fake coffee names (I've actually done this for a while and Niki picked up on it as well). On Friday morning, the two of us drove up to Sun Valley in lots of snow and rain, listening to a random collection of music and of course chatting about everything from class and classmates, history stuff, family life, etc.
When we got to Sun Valley, we parked, bought tickets to the two shows we wanted to see, and then headed out to wonder around Ketchum. We stopped in a couple of old antique and firniture stores, a bookstore or two, some thrift stops and of course, a huge chair.
We stopped at a restaurant called the Kneadery which sounded like it had awesome sandwiches but it was so busy and we wouldn't have gotten our food on tme to make it to the movie so we took a picture of the moose on the wall for my JAMers and then headed over to a quicker sandwich place and brought ours into the theater. 
Just like at the LAFF, the movies were all inside the Magic Lantern Theater, which had movie posters lining the walls and a pretty cool bathroom (pictures on my i-phone... there will be a post on that... stay tuned...). We found out seats and ate our lunch while waiting for the movie to start.
The first movie had a short film that preceded it, which was called "Cabbie" and let's be honest, I kinda dozed off a little bit. The movie we watched was actually a pilot of a new TV show called Imagine This! Eoin Bailey (who was on ER and Once Upon A Time and some movies) hosted and led this crew of architects, environmentalists, artists, etc., in this Extreme Makeover Home Edition, International Version type show. It was absolutely incredible. I was in tears for 95% of it. The trailer below is the episode that we watched and I loved it. I want this show on TV- I will watch it every week. And probably cry a lot. Adrian and Ben and Dingo were my favorites.
The second movie was called the Phantom Wolves of Sun Valley, of which the trailer is below. I think this would have made more of an impact on me if I were either a hunter or a farmer or a sheepherder. But since I am none, I certainly trailed off a time or two. Before the movie were two shorts. One was called Crosshairs and was my favorite short of the day. It was about these two brothers who poach a sheep in Australia and get caught. One brother runs off, the other is held by the farmer who catches them. It was a fascinating look at relationships and fear and integrity. We loved it. The other one was this odd look at ants who were wandering around and carrying leaves and such and then all of a sudden start carrying around leaves in the shape of the letters that spell out "We Rule". I didn't get it. It reminded me of "Death of an Insect" from the LAFF.
After the movies, we went into this rock and jewelry store were you could look out their display window onto the street and Niki bought some cool stones. Then we headed into the cellar pub for some fish 'n chips and chicken fingers for dinner.
The drive home was a lot better than the drive out. It was a lot clearer and we had some gorgeous views of the sunset. And also we snorted with laughter at David Sedaris and his parents. Love it.
Thanks, Kathryn, for an awesome day at the Sun Valley Film Festival!
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