Steve James, Kevin Smith and John Pierson at the Reel Paradise party

Wellspring threw a party for its release of Sundance '05/SXSW '05 fav "Reel Paradise" at the Tribeca Cinemas in Lower Manhattan Monday night, attracting a pretty nice cross-section of New York film world stalwarts. The party was pretty packed, not bad for a Monday night in August. Joining in on the festivities were indie film guru Extraordinaire John Pierson (right), whose family is the subject of the film, director Kevin Smith (middle) who executive produced the film (along with John and wife Janet Pierson) and director Steve James. The trio were getting flashed here by several photographers, and this was our result. Photo by Brian Brooks/indieWIRE.