Purgatory House, The Movie. A Feature Written By A 14-Year-Old-Girl.

The 27th Mill Valley Film Festival was incredible. This prestigious, top-tier festival had an amazing line-up of indies including: THE MACHINIST, TARNATION, PRIMER, FINDING NEVERLAND, I HEART HUCKABEES, UNKNOWN SOLDIER and STAGE BEAUTY. The staff and volunteers treated us great. Both PH screenings were full houses, and the audiences here were our best yet. PURGATORY HOUSE also had another screening as part as the outreach program for at-risk teens. The kids LOVED it!! Celeste & Cindy were also featured on a filmmaker panel for "21st Century Filmmaking". The parties were very fancy and abundant, and one was even sponsored by ILM (George Lucas' company). Northern California in the fall is just gorgeous. It was a great festival.


This is the theater we screened at. It's the theater from AMERICAN GRAFFITI!	Our	Cindy and Celeste do a Q&A after the first screening of PURGATORY HOUSE.


Festival Programmer Jennifer Schmidt (in center) with Cindy and Celeste.	Our	Celeste, Peter Riegert (from ANIMAL HOUSE) and Cindy.


Cindy and Celeste do a Q&A at the second screening.	Our	Mill Valley has amazing support from the community, and all the shows were packed.


We were there with Jonathan Caouette (TARNATION) when he first saw his story on the front page of the calendar section of the LA Times! (His movie opened in theaters the next day).	Our	Here is Jonathan with his LA Times story.


Cindy Baer and Jonathan Caouette. This photo is color-tweaked in tribute to Jonathan's film TARNATION.	Our	Zoe Elton (Director of Programming) gave PURGATORY HOUSE an amazing introduction before our screening that we will always remember.


Celeste and director Rob Nilsson.	Our	PURGATORY HOUSE's awesome editor Ken Gruca with Cindy.


Cindy and legendary documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles.	Our	Celeste and her friend Jim at the Industrial Light and Magic party.