good morning bour um also it's 10:00 a.m. and you're here right now it's amazing you have you had your coffee yet um I was here um 8 years ago with my first film posos I was just a baby at 32 years old I remember walking out on the stage and I was just totally overwhelmed by all these beautiful faces and the energy in this room and in this city and now to um to be back here once again I just turned 40 last week and happy birthday and to come back as a as an older wiser person with some gray hairs on my face now you got some gray hairs too since I saw yeah I know I turn 50 so but to be back here um ever since we were here 8 years ago it was just can we ever get back how do we get back here because I realized just how rare and precious this Festival is it really is a light on a hill for Cinema I mean that from my heart a lot that I could say about this film we're going to speak to you afterwards with my creative partner Clint Bentley here who also has some gray hair now since we were here last time it's a movie about no matter how hard it can get no matter how dark the place you find yourself in we can still find each other we can still choose Joy and the darker it gets the more we need to hold on to each other and I think that's at the core of what this film is so thank you so much we'll see you afterwards enjoy the film