What To Do With Your Hands... At a Film Festival or Awards Show

Are handshakes ever okay? Should festivals have workplace rules? Should you use your hands to slap someone who made a joke about your wife? What else happened at the Oscars and Aputure’s new releases…

In this episode, we talk about…

• Challenge of returning to extreme networking socializing events 
• The end of handshakes as we know it 
• Creating a PSA and implied HR rules to make film festivals safer for all 
• Acknowledging public spaces can bring up pandemic anxiety 
• Game of comparisons surrounding Will Smith slapping Chris Rock 
• Avoiding assumptions about the headspace or intentions of other people
• Advice for filmmakers: Always do your research and mitigate your expectations for screenings and awards 
• Free speech and whether a joke is punching across vs. punching down 
• Other notable highlights from the Oscars 
• Aputure’s launch of new tube lights and mat lights 

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