I have been fortunate enough to meet a lot of filmmakers over the years. Even more fortunate is meeting a down to earth filmmaker who is generous with both his time and knowledge.

On Saturday, September 12th a bevy of gorgeous woman showed up to the Midnight Madness line with postcards and buttons for Bitch Slap, their movie. Amongst the excitement of seeing Julia Voth, America Olivo, Erin Cummings and Minae Noji who began to make heads turn and hearts swoon, there stood a man off to the side by a light post. At well over six feet, Rick Jacobson is someone hard to miss. I approached him with the general trepidation accorded to meeting a complete stranger and introduced myself and stated that he had already spoken to a friend of mine, Sanjay Rajput. We shook hands and began to talk in earnest about his film Bitch Slap and Midnight Madness in general. That night we spoke for over a half an hour. The next night Rick and I then met at a party where we talked for well over half the night. What I learned was Rick is a man who possesses a great passion for film-making and like many filmmakers had a great story about his journey from a working director in film and television to his first world premiere at Midnight Madness.

On the day of his premiere we met at his hotel where we resumed our conversation on his journey as a filmmaker and his film Bitch Slap, except this time I had a camera in tow. What I hope was captured was the rapport that we established. I truly mean this when I say in a business littered with many types of folks, that Bitch Slap receiving it's world premiere at Midnight Madness 2009 could not have happened to a nicer guy.