This is a very appropriate opening image – even if I DID take it as my last photo of the entire two-day, two-screenings event when I was on my way home from the afternoon screening at a different location on October 30.
THIS photo shows the Festival’s street banner above Montclair’s main drag (Bloomfield Avenue) by the Clairidge Theater – the heart of the Festival where the movie had premiered the night before.
The movie’s producer, Barry Rubinow, said to meet him in his hotel’s lobby between 5 and 5:30pm. This is the MC Hotel, a few blocks up Bloomfield Avenue from the Clairidge:
I found Barry (standing) and – from left to right – his wife Carey, band members – and Glen Rock High “boys” – Jimmy Vivino and Jeff Venho, their legendary music teacher from 50 years ago (and star of the show), Joe Sielski and his wife Carolyn, and a woman I didn’t know named Karen Barnet – another Glen Rock High graduate (as was Barry, giving him the ability to put all these pieces and their remarkable story together).
