Lake Placid Film Forum

Road trip! I know that Lake Placid has a bad reputation due to killer crocodiles, but they're largely a myth. Largely. Anyway, you know I have other Meetups, which I want to stress, doesn't mean I love you any less. Is anyone else, by the way, as disoriented as I am by the shift to the word 'meeting' to refer to the actual events? Soon, we'll be a 'group.' A 'group' with 'meetings'.

My marathoning group is trekking up to Lake Placid to run, as is its wont, and I noted that Lake Placid is having a film forum that weekend. There'll be screenings, author talks, a student film contest, film festival type stuff. So, I thought I'd pop up, get a day pass for Saturday, run a marathon Sunday, sell a screenplay in the afternoon, and pop back.

Now, there's no pricing available. And, the website doesn't have dates for when the programming's coming. It links to FilmFestivals.com, which shows it as only taking place last year. But, I'm sure more information is coming. We'll arrange housing and transportation as a group, and go to Lake Placid which is, if you're not aware, the site of our 1980 triumph over the Soviet Hockey Team in the Winter Olympic Games. They're weren't any Summer Games that year, you'll recall, as the USSR had invaded and occupied Afghanistan. Who invades and occupies Afghanistan‽ Sheesh. Russians.

Structure: Carpool or transit up to Lake Placid the evening of June 13th. Overnight twice in Lake Placid, informally coordinate for films Saturday, films on your own Sunday (or you can watch me run) and trundling back to the safety of Manhattan Island on the evening of the 15th.

Ready?