- Harvey Lalonde - "Superstar Film Festival Volunteer" - learns there is more than experience required to make it in the industry and that you can build your own family through kindness and community.
- Harvey Lalonde, has been volunteering at film festivals and events in Toronto and abroad, for 25+ years. With no family behind him for support his family has always been the film festival community. And everything Harvey knew and learned came from the world of film. His life revolved around film, and volunteering at film festivals gave him the best of all worlds. Some of his best life-experiences came through the festival world.
But there are also challenges to being a film festival volunteer.
Harvey volunteers on average at 40 festivals, and nearly 100 events annually, performing various roles. From set-up to tear-down. He has provided countless hours of administrative assistance, crowd coordinating assistance, not to mention offering up advice to the managers scheduling volunteers. In fact his comprehension of all these various aspects and workings of a film festival are considerable. He has connected many people over the years to work as volunteers and has been relentless in word-of-mouth in this area. Staffing and setting up the organization of volunteer departments, Harvey could do with his eyes closed, he is very much the quiet connector of the festival world....Yet he is still "only a volunteer".
Harvey's attempts to obtain employment as a festival staff member have been unsuccessful, yet he remains dedicated to his multitude of duties, and is passionate about film and festivals.
You could probably ask any movie-goer in Toronto if they heard of Harvey, and you can pretty much bet all of them would say yes. Some know him by name, but more know his face or have heard of the "Infamous" Harvey.
He was a very private man and very few know his whole story. This documentary will not only share a story about a beloved film festival volunteer, but will share the difficult path Harvey has taken to land a paying gig.
You Know Harvey is an inspirational story that will capture the human side of the man who's been dubbed the "Superstar Volunteer".
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