Enthusiastic reviews in Variety and indieWIRE were certainly the pinnacle of the press bonanza which surrounded the premiere of Around the Bay in early March, but there were key sources of support from the hard-to-crack worlds of television and radio, too. I already profusely thanked the CinemaScene guys, but SF360, KMVT and KFJC came through for us as well, assuring that Around the Bay was publicized on airwaves from San Francisco to Santa Cruz.

Katherine and I were invited to appear on the SF360 show MovieScene, co-hosted by Rod Armstrong, one of the SFIFF programmers. From the moment Rod called me in November to express interest in screening Around the Bay at SFIFF (he regretted that it didn't work out), I knew I was dealing with someone rare in the festival world: his warmth and enthusiasm were palpable but not at all overstated or disingenuous. When I met Hilary Hart, the disarmingly accessible director of publicity for SFIFF, I was even more impressed. In short, SFIFF is run by some wonderful human beings, and I wish them the best of luck with their current festival.

Steve found interest and support at KMVT, a peninsula TV station which conducted an extensive interview with him to help publicize our premiere. The director of the show Random Access was kind enough to share the files from their taping, so I put together a brief clip of Steve talking about his process as an actor (and his process vis-a-vis my process).

The delightfully aggressive publicity team at Cinequest set up an interview for me with Robert Emmett at KFJC. Robert does a weekly show which focuses on movie music, and considering the absence of any kind of music in Around the Bay, I figured we would hit a major roadblock in our conversation. On the contrary, Robert and I had a wonderful chat before and after the broadcast, and somewhere in between I found a microphone in my face and did my best to seize the moment. I thought I was coming off as a blowhardy pedagogue, so I was pleased to get some strong positive feedback from people who had tuned in. However, I was unnerved by a recurring remark from listeners, more cryptic every time I heard it: "You were yourself."

Maybe, just maybe, "yourself" is a blowhardy pedagogue, and some people love "you" anyway.