My friend Lyda Kuth’s film Love and Other Anxieties played to a packed house yesterday at the Independent Film Festival Boston. Beautiful and heartfelt, Love and Other Anxieties is a personal exploration about the meaning of love and long-term commitment.
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You can see in the above photo the line for Love and Other Anxieties stretched the length of a city block, wrapping around the corner, and ending behind the theatre.
Arriving early allowed a few minutes to have fun with street photography. My x100 is terrific for photographing people without being noticed and for the most part, passers-by don’t mind even if they do notice. Davis Square was teeming with people and the restaurants were jam packed.
With 98 films playing over the course of a week, and the greatest number of films shown during the weekend, I was impressed with how well organized is the festival–run entirely by volunteers.
I was hoping to take a snapshot of Lyda with her family after the film, but we were hurried out of the theatre to make way for the next film. Lyda was surrounded by a throng of well-wishers and friends and I was so happy to see her happiness. Congratulations to Lyda for the successful launch of her beautiful and touching film, first of many I hope!
Love and Other Anxieties Trailer
Interview with Lyda from New England Film
Good Morning Gloucester 
: Great pics… I used to work in Davis Square at Woolworths and the Somerville Theatre is the movie house we would go.. saw a Hard Days Night there and many other movies… thanks for the memories…
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Thanks Donna–super wonderful day yesterday. Hard Days Night–wow! What a great theatre. There were so many people in the Square yesterday and all were there to enjoy the festival–so good to see. I loved the old Woolworth’s in Downtown Crossing, next to Filene’s Basement and Jordan Marsh.
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Glad to hear it was packed. I really wanted to go, but had a charity event to attend. I heard her interviewed on NPR (I think) and she was great, very interesting.
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