Working Girl

So I started my internship at Feel Films, a small production company that primarily represents directors who produce commercials, but that also has a feature film department (which nothing ever happens in). The office is tiny- there's me, another intern, an editor/assistant, the head of content, the head of new business, the managing director, and an accountant who comes in a couple days a week. My job is to do whatever they need me to do. I am a typical intern, running errands, making tea, filing, making spreadsheets, and organizing. The most exciting thing I do is researching potential clients for the directors. The people in the office are very nice, but the woman who gives me most of my work can be a little intimidating sometimes because of the way she needs things to be a certain way, which tends to change as the days change. The other intern is great, and is a big help for me because she has been there for longer and knows how the office runs better than I do, and she's British, so if I'm not completely understanding something because of the language (because, yes, sometimes it feels like a different language), then she is there to point me in the right direction.


I can't say that I despise my internship, but I certainly don't enjoy it. I'm not really learning anything, although one of my supervisor's is having me look at call sheets for shoots and paperwork from production meetings so I can get a feel for the process and the timeline of making a commercial. The editor also told me that he would show me some things on the editing software when the busyness dies down a little, which is exciting because I like editing video.


In other news, we went to a real English football game! It was for some European league and the game we went to was England vs. Montenegro. No one scored the whole game, but it was still exciting and I loved being there, especially because soccer, sorry football, is my favorite sport.


The London Film Festival was in October as well and I got tickets to three films: Let Me In, a re-make of an old movie about a 12 year old girl and her friendship with another 12 year old boy, except she is actually a vampire- which tends to complicate things; Miral, a movie based on the true story of a young woman trying to grow up around the Palestinian-Israeli conflicts; and Carancho, a spanish film about an ambulance chaser and a paramedic's dramatic life falling in love and trying to escape dirty business. The stars and the directors of Let Me In and Miral came to the showings to introduce themselves and the movies, which was cool, but unfortunately both times I happened to be in the theater that wasn't having the Q&A after. I couldn't help imagining that one day maybe the films I am a part of will be in film festivals and I will get to go to premieres and festivals on a more VIP status. That's the dream, and I really hope it happens someday.


We also went to Brick Lane, a market where they sell both old and new things. There's a couple of indoor markets, some full of vintage things and some full of booths with new clothing and jewelry. The street itself is a long flea market lined with random things people are selling. In one of the buildings, there's also a bunch of food stands that were amazingly delicious. My friends got Indian food and I got Ethiopian vegetarian food and it was sooo freaking good.