Richard LeMay

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After two sold out screenings at this years NEWFEST Film Festival, CHILDREN OF GOD won the audience award for Best Narrative Feature Film.  This is the fourth award the movie has garnered in the past two months.  Next stop is Frameline in San Francisco and then off to OUTFEST in LA.

The second screening of CHILDREN OF GOD here in New York sold out on Thursday.  The audience loved it and we all headed to Highlands for the after party.  Things got a little crazy. That’s editor Maria Cataldo, director Kareem Mortimer and actor Johnny Ferro at the reception before the screening.

Monday night CHILDREN OF GOD screened at Harlem Stage on Screen as a part of this years NEWFEST.  The screening was sold out and the crowd loved it.  About 95% of the audience stayed for the Q & A afterward.  After that, they threw a party for the film.  We had a blast.

I never even mentioned that before I got here, my new movie WHIRLWIND screened as part of NEWFEST in New York City. We had 2 packed screenings and the response was overwhelming. A really positive reception from the NYC crowds.

The next week we got our first good review in VARIETY.

I’m having a good week…that is until we lost our grip truck in customs this morning.

But I’m gonna light some candles and kill a chicken later on. Everything is gonna work out.