'Ant-Man And The Wasp' MoMA Screening: See Paul Rudd And More!

Last night, The Cinema Society hosted an exclusive screening of Marvel Studios 'Ant-Man and the Wasp' at MoMA. Stars lined the carpet and photographer Daniela Kirsch took Patch along for the ride! Check out her experience and photos below.

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6:20 p.m.
The top photographers in the city are here. These guys shoot most of the entertainment photos in New York City published in magazines and online anywhere in the world.
Their photos do not guarantee fame, but it certainly helps. If they get interested in a new kid on the scene, she might become Emily Ratajkowski.

Even the paparazzi outside are top notch. We call them street guys. One of them is high up the ranks. He gets hired by celebrities to shoot staged paparazzi-style photos of them walking down the street.

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6:32 p.m.
I'm inside with eight other photographers. The biggest photo agency sent three shooters. One of them never even says hi to me, the other one always hugs me. They are best friends.

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6:40 p.m.
"What's with his hands?" I ask.
"He is a pianist. The gesture is his thing." says the photographer next to me.

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7:10 p.m.
Kara McCollough. Miss USA 2017.

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7:22 p.m.
"Michael Douglas is here. He should go on the carpet first!" says Alysia.

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7:23 p.m.
It's your turn, Alysia! The earrings!

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7:27 p.m.
Stephanie March.

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7:28 p.m.
Michael Douglas.
He is upbeat, in a good mood, smiling, laughing and joking.
"You guys are so civilized!" he says to the photographers.

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7:29 p.m.
I snap a photo of Michael.

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7:32 p.m.
AJ Calloway interviews Michael.

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7:34 p.m.

Paul Rudd is here with his wife.

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7:37 p.m.
Paul Rudd and AJ Calloway.

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7:42 p.m.
Ian Mellencamp and Jazmin Grace Grimaldi.

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7:47 p.m.
"Who are you wearing?"
"It's a new designer! His name is Pepa Pombo." says Pritika Swarup.

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7:48 p.m.
Kelly Killoren Bensimon.
Everyone is happy to see Kelly. She is a friend, a regular at many events in the city and the most down-to-earth social on the scene.

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7:50 p.m.

"That's EasterXBunny, he is a designer!"
"Yeah, I looked him up last week, and he has only 3000 followers on Instagram, not sure what he is even doing on the carpet," someone says.

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7:51 p.m.

Next are the models. They all look like twins. Of course, they do, they are cast this way.

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7:56 p.m.
On my way out I see Radioman. He is a formerly homeless man who has been making cameo appearances in movies and tv shows and hangs around film sets and movie premiers.

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7:57 p.m.
I walk down the street, kneel down and start packing up my camera. A tourist stops and tries to give me a business card.
"Can you send me 5-10 photos of the main celebrities?"
"No," I say.
"Why not?"
"Because I make money off of selling photos."
"But it's only for my Instagram."
I walk away.

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8:00 p.m.

On the next corner, I stop and edit the first 30 photos on my laptop and upload them to the wires. In a split second my photos are on the computer screens of 15k news publications worldwide competing against the other eight photographer's shots.

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Daniela Kirsch is co-founder of NameFace — a facial recognition application that can identify celebrities in photographs. Through her technical and creative expertise, Kirsch has changed the entertainment industry, and she knows more than just a thing or two about photographing A-list events.

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