Filed under: Everything Else, Documentary, Film Festivals, Silverdocs
Gore’s speech, about the empowerment that comes with the ability to write and create media, echoed a lot of the themes addressed in our film, The Alphabet Book, so I was determined to try to slip him a copy of our trailer at the cocktail party which followed his presentation. It’s not at all in my nature to try to do something like that, but I honestly thought that he’d be interested. I made several aborted attempts to approach him before finally managing to shake his hand.
The guy was amazing. As I told him a bit about our film, he sipped his wine and listened with what seemed to me like an honest interest. The he started asking questions. “Did they use a phonetic Alphabet?” he asked. “Yes, and this was a conscious decision made because they wanted to be able to transition easily to English.” I explained. “You know what Ataturk did, right?” he said. We discussed how Ataturk had decided that the Turkish language should be written in a Latin rather than Persian script, and overnight, Turkey had joined the West. Then he recommended a book called “The Alphabet and the Goddess” which talks about how the introduction of alphabets has altered human cognition. I was completely awed by his willingness and ability to talk in such depth about an obscure subject to a total nobody at a cocktail party. He accepted the DVD of our trailer, promised to take a look at it, and suggested that I submit a piece to Current TV.
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