Many festival-goers have wondered about the unusually contemplative trailer running before each SBIFF screening. In contrast to the more conventionally splashy, show biz-y trailers, this year's model is lyrical and spare and features a slowly-tracking camera moving down the pathway to Butterfly Beach. It moves past a painter at his easel on the sand as he muses about the connection between beach-going and movie-going as experiences lined with "desire and discovery." Only the gentle ambient sound of the ocean hums in the soundtrack.
To clarify, said painter is Hank Pitcher, who supplied this year's SBIFF poster. It so happens that the filmmaker behind the project is none other than Roger Durling, who shot it on his iPhone. Kudos to all and praise for the rare subtlety of it.
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