Photo and text by Eric Kohn (June 15, 2008)
Britney Spears huddled in a sea of bodyguards while performers breathed fire to the astonishment of a drunken audience wading in the pool, but the real spectacle at the
CineVegas Film Festival's ten year anniversary party at Palms Place on Saturday was the emergence of
newly minted
South by Southwest Film Festival director
Janet Pierson. We jest, but only slightly: Pierson arrived in CineVegas to make her first festival appearance since landing the new gig, and wasted no time finding the man in whose footsteps she now walks:
Matt Dentler,
now in New York working for
Cinetic Media. In the photo above, the two found time to relax amid the ubiquitous chaos.