Pussyfootin' Around

Dušan Sekulović is at the Cannes Film Festival to accompany his short film, Pussyfoot, to the screening room. An abbreviated version his feature with the same title, Pussyfoot is a comedy about a bristly faced resident alien living out his version of the American dream in New York. I had the pleasure of sitting next to Sekulović on a 7.5 hour flight over to France, during he shared many fascinating bits of information, including how he raised most of the money to finance his film. Sekulović set up a website allowing people to buy themselves credits in Pussyfoot. The price was based on the size and font of each credit, starting at $35 for a 24 point font to $900 for a 400 point Hummer of a credit. Sales totaled nearly $40,000, and the credits may end up being longer than those for Lord of The Rings.

Sekulović also shared another more immediately useful nugget of knowledge. In order to avoid lousy airplane meals with microwaved meats and gooey breakfast buns that seem baked in the plastic they arrive in, Sekulović suggests ordering the Hindu meal. He particularly enjoys seeing stewardesses walk past him 3 or 4 times while attempting to deliver his special request because they are looking for an Indian person. Of a mixed German, Yugoslavian, and Italian upbringing himself, Sekulović enjoys comedically playing up but also challenging cultural stereotypes. These themes will be revisited in his next feature, a drama about a mute boy in a very conservative town of Southern Italy. 

Here's the official Pussyfoot website.

— Roseann M. Lake

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