Can I Drink Coffee In The Theater?

The answer is “no” “uh-ugh” “nada” “nope”

But, there’s reasons! Maybe you were here for the GREAT-COFFEE-GATE scandal of 2018?

You weren’t? Hoo Boy, that was something.

Suffice to say this elevator pitch: “A Jumbo Cup ‘o Joe Meets 5 Seats in Row D and Chaos Ensues!” was not well received by some of the attending audience members or festival executives.

As the story goes, all our visiting, innocent, and intrepid filmmaker wanted to do was get seriously caffeinated in the waning hours of a Saturday .a.m. while watching a block of movies. Alas, it was not meant to be as his massive thermos and some weird hodgepodge of physics decided that his beverage would better distributed among a significant percentage of the attendees rather than his gullet.

If you have a few hours to kill, be sure to ask our committee chairman. Fred Jee, about the anecdote. You’ll hear all the traumatic details. Some of those details involve a ruined silk skirt and clogged up toilets in the ladies room.

(not so) Good To The Last Drop™

*btw, you’re allowed to drink water