Love and Other Anxieties

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

About Kim Smith

Currently creating documentary films about the Monarch Butterfly, Black Swallowtail Butterfly, and Gloucester's Feast of St. Joseph. Landscape designer for the Gloucester Harbor Walk Gardens. Designer, lecturer, author, illustrator, photographer. Visit my blog for more information about my landscape and interior design firm- kimsmithdesigns.wordpress.com. Good Morning Gloucester daily contributor. Author/illustrator "Oh Garden of Fresh Possibilities! Notes from a Gloucester Garden"
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3 Responses to Love and Other Anxieties

  1. : 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…

  2. Kim Smith says:

    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.

  3. Jenn Cullen says:

    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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