37th cleveland international film festival :: April 3 - april 14, 2013
Film Festival Blog
March 28th, 2009 @ 8:15pm

EVERYBODY GOT IN!

This was the most incredible round ever!

Okay, first of all: pure chaos. Every single film in the 7:00 round was on Stand-By. And in the midst of all of the lines, there were concertgoers passing by on the way to the Q. It's the kind of thing that you'd expect to suddenly implode, and turn into some kind of massive human wave, a riot, a disaster...

...but not here.

The lines were, as we overheard several patrons say while they waited, extremely organized. And, best of all, everybody got in. As the last stand-by line was admitted -- all 85 of them -- everybody started cheering. We've caught it on video, because it's a moment we're extremely proud of. Anywhere else, this might have been a disaster in the making, but here, it was a wonderful triumph.

We currently have more than two thousand people in our theaters! Two thousand-plus of the most awesome people on the face of the Earth!

Posted by Lara Klaber

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