The PaleyDocFest starts tomorrow with a screening of Kristi Jacobson’s Toots, a film about the legendary New York City restaurateur Toots Shor, whose restaurant stood exactly where The Paley Center now stands apparently! I’m personally also looking forward to seeing James Moll’s Running the Sahara on October 24th. This is the unbelievable sounding story of three men who decide to run across all 4,300 miles of the Sahara Desert, averaging 50 miles per day for nearly 4 months without a single day off. As a recent convert to running, I become unbearably smug if I run 6 miles once a week so this Saharan odyssey sounds like something I have to see. I’ve also heard Eric Scott Latek’s Sweet Dreams is very good. Read Pamela Cohn’s Still In Motion review here. Other events include a Documentary Pitch Workshop and a conversation with Liv Ullmann.

Running the Sahara – rather them than me!