Not long after the festival announced the first crop of titles in the Real to Reel programme, I got an email from fellow filmmaker Michael Tucker, who (with partner Petra Epperlein) made the excellent film Gunner Palace and this year's Toronto premiere The Prisoner Or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair. Michael wrote me to say that he used to live in Seattle and is friends with Charles Peterson, whose photographs we are using in our film about Kurt Cobain (and who will be with us for the premiere in Toronto). Turns out that one of the photographs we use in the film (seen here) shows young Mike Tucker at a U-Men show in the late 1980s with his hands in the air. So already, there is a connection between filmmakers at this year's TIFF. So now, I am secretly hoping that Lucy Walker might have attended a Mudhoney show & that perhaps Sarah Price is in the audience for L7. Or perhaps I am in the deep deep background in a scene in American Hardcore. Looking forward to connections old and new at this year's festival and to participating in this Doc Blog. My personal blog, where I've been writing about my film and about non-fiction filmmaking generally, can be found here. [where you'll find a larger version of this pic - Ed.]