We've known for a little over a week that in addition to its acceptance at the Calgary Film Festival, "Jenny's Journal" has also been selected as a featured film at this year's Idaho Panhandle International Film Festival at the Panida Theater in Sandpoint from Aug. 24-26. I haven't mentioned this news because we didn't know what day the film would be shown.
Last night that information finally became available along with all the other details about the 2006 three-day festival. Go to (http://ipiff.com/) for details. The film is scheduled to be shown at approximately 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 24. It joins a host of others featured over the three days, which were chosen from a field of 150 applicants.
The film festival dates will be a big weekend for "Jenny's Journal" producer and Sandpoint native, Jeff Bock. He's also getting married. For a while, he thought he may be scurrying back and forth between his wedding rehearsal dinner and the movie theater, but the Thursday showing gives him a little more wiggle room.
Jeff, Jenny and I are all thrilled to learn of the Sandpoint showing of the 23-minute documentary which draws from Jenny Jacobson Meyer's personal journal to chronicle her struggles with inflammatory breast cancer. It focuses on friendship, family along with the day-to-day challenges of chemotherapy and the emotional roller coaster of living with cancer.
The film depicts of young woman, Jenny Jacobson (daughter of Roy and Carrie) who grew up in Sandpoint, attended its schools, excelled as a leader, an athlete and a student. She married the star athlete, Jeff Meyer (son of Doug and Nancy). Shortly after learning of Jenny's pregnancy, the young couple learned of her cancer. Their storybook life suddenly turned upside down. What would happen to Jenny? What would happen to the baby? What would happen to the marriage? The film answers those questions and many others.
"Jenny's Journal" includes segments crafted from three years' worth of video, which has been shot since we first started this project after Jenny, a Sandpoint High classmate of Jeff's, agreed to participate. As I mentioned last week, Jeff Bock used his vision, his talent, his drive and unbelievable dedication to see that the concept turned into reality. It's the product of a Master's in film project for Jeff at the University of California at Northridge. He's also compiling a film about the river pigs as his thesis project.
In the meantime, Jeff will be on hand to introduce the film at the Panida. So, will a crowd of his fans who've watched him since the days of "Cracked Egg Productions." Jeff has been making films since his teen years. Some of those would also include dramatic productions of Word Clues sentence assignments for Mrs. Love's English classes. Jeff used his family and his friends to piece together some rather unusual approaches for those Greek words to appear in context.
From what I'm told, tickets are limited, so I'm guessing that it's a good idea to secure one soon for the showing of "Jenny's Journal." The film festival offers a three-day pass, and hopefully, as it draws nearer, more details will appear in the local papers. For now, I'm doing my own assignment, sent last night by a justifiably proud Jeff Bock. That was: Spread the news!
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