In case you were wondering, which clearly you weren't as that would get in the way of your partisan jabs (which are amusing I'll add).. This was a pubic reception, that was funded by the flimmaker himself. There were two receptions, one before, and one after the movie. The motorcycle pictures and those with James Moore were from his reception which had cheap wine. The reception after with the great food was not paid for by tax dollars. I suppose if you really wanted to get technical you could say that because Telefilm funded it it was tax-payer funded...but anyone could go anyhow.