I was prepping for a radio interview early this morning, and started thumbing through the program guide to get an idea of the festival highlights I wanted to discuss. As I was reading, I was suddenly overwhelmed by the utter futility of my task. There is so much activity, so much to do and see and experience in these six days in Traverse City, it's possible that you could sit four people down at a dinner table to talk about their festival experience next Monday, and each will have had a completely different week than the others.

It's amazing to realize that, as much as I can try and cover the "festival experience," there will always be parts of it I never see or touch. Movies I didn't watch. Filmmakers I didn't meet. Parties I didn't attend. (OK, maybe not that last one.) This is where your comments - and your photos - come in handy. Everyone's TCFF week is unique, and if each person can share some small piece of their own perspective, it starts to make up that expansive, ambigious collage that is THE festival experience. So feel free to share your stories here on the blog, or to post your photos on Flickr. Join the festival chorus!