‘Honeydripper’ was announced last night as the winner of “Best Independent or Foreign Film” at the annual NAACP Image Awards in Hollywood. John Sayles and Maggie Renzi were in attendence to accept the award. We’ll post pictures later if we can get them.
Update: Here is a video of John’s acceptance from NAACP Image Awards website:
This update is so overdue.
All summer I was all about Toronto. I’m so grateful to South by Southwest and Now Magazine for sponsoring the band, promoting HONEYDRIPPER and for working with Cameron to make a great party. Then Toronto happened and it was everything we wanted it to be.
We were thrilled with the response to the movie at that first screening. People win prizes, but there is also value in a detail: when I tell people that that audience clapped along with the end credits song and then gave our cast a standing ovation, they get it.
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