During the Q&A Smith and Sebring talked about their collaboration. According to Smith and Sebring trust is the essential element in their relationship that has developed through their many years of working together. The film was enthusiastically received by the audience. Patti’s son Jackson (now 25) who was sitting behind me, had the loudest laugh in the theater as he watched himself as a thirteen year old on screen wearing a knight’s helmet (you had to be there!) that had been given to him by the band on his birthday.
The evening culminated in an amazingly intimate concert by Patti and her band at the overheated Kimball Arts Center — probably the coolest event of the festival (more photos). She gave a dynamic performance including “Gloria” and a wonderful cover of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” which she called a “great American folk song.” The film now goes on to screen at the Berlin Film Festival and should have a theatrical release later this year. The film will have its television premiere on POV in 2009.