Documentary Edge Festival

I decided to stay in Auckland and I found work very quickly.  Monday I applied for my tax id number and set up a bank account, Tuesday I worked for the yacht Yannakee Too, and Wednesday I was hired by Boat Boys, a boat labor contractor.  I am renting a camper van behind a lady's house in the Ponsonby neighborhood for a good price. It is only a 20 minute walk to the boat yards.   Last night my landlady invited me to a showing of I am the River, the award winning documentary on Maori photography.  The documentary won the award for the best New Zealand Feature in the Documentary Edge Festival.  The showing was one of the final showings of the festival and the director, Luigi Cutore was present and fielded questions from the audience after the film.  It turns out that Luigi was friends with my landlady's friend and the 4 of us ended up meeting for a drink after the show.  Luigi is very nice and told me that being a film director is like being a starving artist, sometimes not getting paid for years at a time.  The rest of the conversation was about middle-aged bars, ect, and I was off daydreaming.  Everyone was nice and the night was short.  Its going to be strange settling into a routine for the next few weeks.