Loving this guest post on Women and Hollywood by Victoria Mahoney about how it felt to premiere her first film Yelling At The Sky at the Berlin Film Festival. Mahoney starts her blog post by saying "The freakiest thing about indie filmmakers is that we are bred and conditioned for harsh news. We wake up to 32,000 "NOs" a day, and self-preservation protects us from the ambush of let down. We have made an intrinsic peace with the fight required to shape shift those 32,000 "NOs" into a version of "YES". That's how we live. With hand crafted versions of "YES." But Yelling to the Sky, my first film, got a yes from the prestigious Berlin Film Festival and we were all off to Germany."
Hers is the kind of story we want to read more of.