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The Film Panel Notetaker is a fun and informative educational resource for all film folk. Check us out anytime for the latest film panel notes from a wide array of topics. If you have ever been a panelist, a moderator, or in the audience, we strongly encourage you to share your own notes as a Guest Notetaker, and we will post them here for you.

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One-on-One Q&A: Kris Swanberg, ...
By thefilmpanelnotetaker in thefilmpanelnotetaker Blog
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"One on One Q&A with Kris SwanbergDirector/Co-Writer,It was great, but I was ready to come homeInterview by Erin SchererKris Swanberg (left) with Jade Healyin It was great, but I was ready to come homeKris Swanberg's directorial debut, It was great, but I was ready to come home debuted at the 2009 SXSW Film Festival to glowing reviews. This marked Kris' first major foray into narrative, after previously working in the documentary milieu in projects such as the short, Bathwater, and her Nerve.com web series, Boys and Girls. It was great, but I was ready to come home will next play on Saturday, April 18th at the Atlanta Film Festival.Erin was inspired to interview Kris upon seeing such phrases as "it was great but i was ready to come home" and "ready to come home swanberg" turn up on the Google Analytics page for her blog. The interview was conducted via e-mail. Erin: How did you become interested in film? How old were you, and what were your earliest endeavors? Kris: I first got int ... " [More]

The Incredible Shrinking (Expan ...
By thefilmpanelnotetaker in thefilmpanelnotetaker Blog
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"The Incredible Shrinking (Expanding?) Film Critic ProfessionSXSW Film FestivalAustin Convention Center, Austin, TXSaturday, March 14th, 2009Notes by Erin SchererModerator:Gerald Peary, Director: For The Love Of Movies, Film Critic for The Boston PhoenixPanelists:Marjorie Baumgarten, Senior Film Editor/Critic, Austin ChronicleShawn Levy, Film Critic, The OregonianKarina Longworth, Spout.comScott Weinberg, Cinematical, FEARnet"What is the current state of film criticism?" Is the question moderator Gerald Peary sought to answer in this panel. He opened the panel by saying:"It's in the best shape that it's ever been in, because there's so many critics, critics for every taste. There are more good critics now than at any point in American History, but at least in the print world, there are critics getting kicked off right and left. It's a shrinking, shrinking world in which many critics who have had their jobs for many years are being laid off, and the papers are disappearing, all p ... " [More]

Married Life

IFP Script to Screen - Writers ...
By thefilmpanelnotetaker in thefilmpanelnotetaker Blog
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"IFP’s Script to Screen ConferenceWriters in CollaborationMarch 7, 2009New York, NYWriter/Director Ira Sachs (Forty Shades of Blue, Married Life) moderated a discussion on the collaborative writing process. He started the conversation by saying that everything he does is about how well he works with other people. “There’s almost nothing that isn’t about trying to negotiate between your own instincts and what you share and look for from others…This panel is about how you work communally, but still have a vision.” Below are highlights from the discussion with writers who collaborate with either a partner or a team for film and/or television.(Photo by Brian Geldin)Moderator:Ira Sachs, Writer/Director, Married LifePanelists:Ryan Fleck, Writer/Director, Sugar & Half NelsonTodd A. Kessler, Co-Creator, “Damages”Daniel Zelman, Co-Creator, “Damages”Sachs: How did you start working collaborators?Fleck: (Anna Boden and I) started working together in film school…I started helping her with her p ... " [More]

One-on-One Q&A: Ry Russo-Young, ...
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"One-on-One Q&A with Ry Russo-Young,Writer-Director, You Wont Miss MeInterview by Erin SchererRy Russo-Young's latest film, You Wont Miss Me, premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. The film stars Stella Schnabel, who collaborated with Russo-Young on the story. You Wont Miss Me follows Shelly Brown, a 23 year old recently released from a mental institution. The film was shot using a variety of mediums, including 16mm, Super 8, Mini DV, and High Definition, in order to, to quote Russo-Young, "speak to our entire visual existence today".Russo-Young's previous feature, Orphans, won a Special Jury Award in the Narrative Feature Competition at the 2007 South By Southwest Film Festival. Orphans is now available on DVD alongside Russo-Young's 2005 short, Marion on Carnivalesque Films. You Wont Miss Me will also be playing at this year's SXSW, with its first screening Friday, March 13th at 9:30pm the Alamo Lamar Theater, Theater 2.The following interview took place as a phone con ... " [More]

Indie Film Blogger Road Trip at ...
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"If you're in New York on Tuesday, I hope you'll head on over to Anthology Film Archives for the World Premiere of Sujewa Ekanayake's documentary Indie Film Blogger Road Trip, a film that I had the pleasure of being interviewed for last summer.Opening 9 minutes of Indie Film Blogger Road Trip.Here's all the details below, and for more info, visit the film's official blog here. Indie Film Blogger Road TripWorld PremiereTuesday February 17, 20098 PMAnthology Film Archives 32 Second AvenueNew York, NY 10003$9 ($6 for Anthology members) Director & several bloggers featured in the film will attend the screening. There will be a brief Q & A session/discussion following the screening.About Indie Film Blogger Road Trip:In the feature length documentary Indie Film Blogger Road Trip independent filmmaker & blogger Sujewa Ekanayake (Date Number One, DIY Filmmaker Sujewa blog) travels to several U.S. East Coast cities in the Summer of 2008 and discusses the thriving world of indie film journali ... " [More]

Independent Film Week - "Medici ...
By thefilmpanelnotetaker in thefilmpanelnotetaker Blog
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"Medicine For Melancholy – Opening Night FilmIndependent Film WeekMonday, September 15, 2008Clearview Chelsea Cinemas – New York, NY(Medicine for Melancholy actor Wyatt Cenac and director Barry Jenkins)Photo by A.M. PetersBefore the screening of Independent Film Week’s opening night film Medicine for Melancholy, New York State Governor’s Office For Motion Picture and Television Development Commissioner Pat Kaufman announced the winner of I Love New York’s New York City Regional competition, “Love in New York.”Filmmaker Magazine editor-in-chief Scott Macauley introduced Medicine for Melancholy and its director Barry Jenkins, one of the magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film (which by the way is celebrating its 10th anniversary. A party was held later in the evening at Strata for the commemoration).Macauley said he first saw Medicine for Melancholy at SXSW at its premiere screening and thought it was fantastic with “a real visual imagination” and is also “really smart about polit ... " [More]

Y Tu Mamá También

New York International Latino F ...
By thefilmpanelnotetaker in thefilmpanelnotetaker Blog
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"New York International Latino Film FestivalNickel N’ Diming Financing – Find the Right DealJuly 24, 2008On Thursday, I attended for the very first time the New York International Latino Film Festival, which presented over 100 films throughout the week. Earlier in the day after picking up my press badge from the Roger Smith Hotel, I hopped over to the Directors Guild Theater to see the film Mancora from Peru (the filmmakers were not present for that, so unfortunately, I have no Q&A notes, other than to say that I thought it was a fairly good film, which sort of reminded me of Y Tu Mama Tambien, which is the much better of the two.) Then I went over to Showbiz Software for a panel discussion on film financing, coordinated by Edwin Pagan, who made a brief introduction. The panelists touched on a number of topics ranging from ways to go about finding funding for your first films to finding a universal appeal for a broader audience, and a brief case study on how the indie film Quinceañe ... " [More]

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

Silverdocs - Guggenheim Symposi ...
By thefilmpanelnotetaker in thefilmpanelnotetaker Blog
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"Prolific filmmaker Spike Lee was honored at the Charles Guggenheim Symposium on June 19th. Clips from Lee's documentary work were played including 4 Little Girls, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, We Was Robbed and Jim Brown: All American. And a preview of Lee's upcoming narrative feature, Miracle at St. Anna (In Theater Sept. 26), was also screened. Denver Post film critic Lisa Kennedy moderated a discussion with Lee. I've read a lot on other blogs that Lee came across as arrogant, but I thought he was just responding honestly to Kennedy, who for the most part, seemed to know her Lee film history well, but often times became redundant in her questioning and struggled to come up with questions. Below are highlights of the opening remarks and some of the questions asked during the discussion.Guggenheim Symposium - Spike LeeSilverdocs AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary FestivalSilver Spring, MD June 19, 2008AFI President Bob Gazzale introduced the discussion referring to ... " [More]

Baraka

One-on-One Q&A with Dawn Scibil ...
By thefilmpanelnotetaker in thefilmpanelnotetaker Blog
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"The Film Panel Notetaker’s One-on-One Q&A with… Dawn Scibilia – Director, Producer, DP, Editor&Alan Cooke – Producer, Writer, NarratorOver the weekend, I got a pleasant surprise when Alan Cooke sent me an instant chat message from Ireland on Facebook. He asked me if I had seen the documentary he produced, wrote, and narrated called Home. It was a film that I was familiar with, but had not yet had the opportunity to see, so I asked him if he could send me a screener. He put me in touch with the film’s director Dawn Scibilia. We spoke on the phone, and met the next rainy day outside of BAM where Dawn gave me the DVD. (I had just come from Sujewa’s documentary shoot where he interviewed Tambay Obenson nearby in Brooklyn.) I immediately took the DVD home with me to watch. It is a beautifully shot and well-told story of Alan’s experience coming from Ireland to live in New York City, as well as other stories told by people who call New York home, whether they came here as immigrants or w ... " [More]

Far from Heaven

Zeitgeist 20th Anniversary Salu ...
By thefilmpanelnotetaker in thefilmpanelnotetaker Blog
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"The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York began a celebration this week of the distributor Zeitgeist Films 20th anniversary with a retrospective of some of their best releases from over the years. Friday night, Todd Haynes presented two of his earlier films from the Zeitgeist collection, the short Dottie Gets Spanked and the controversial feature Poison , both shot by the great indie cinematographer Maryse Alberti, who most recently lensed Alex Gibney's documentary Taxi to the Darkside and whom I've had the personal privilege to work with on two short films in my own early days of independent film, a mere eight years ago compared to Zeitgeist's, Haynes' and Alberti's longevity. As an aside, Dottie Gets Spanked stars two former One Life to Live castmates, J. Evan Bonifant (ex-Al Holden) and Barbara Garrick (Alison Perkins). I state this because a few weeks ago, I posted notes from from the OLTL 40th anniversary panel discussion (speaking of anniversaries) at the Paley Center. Hay ... " [More]

CineWomen NY Presents "The Cake ...
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"Cinewomen NY Presents...The Cake EatersTwo Boots Pioneer TheaterNew York, NYJune 24, 2008(Jayce Bartok, Mary Stuart Masterson & Maria Pusateri talk about The Cake Eaters.)Tuesday night at Two Boots Pioneer Theater in New York, Cinewomen NY presented a screening of Mary Stuart Masterson’s directorial debut, The Cake Eaters. Masterson discussed the making of her film (and in the end commented on the current state of the independent film industry) during a Q&A along with screenwriter/co-producer Jayce Bartok and producer Jesse Scolaro. The Cake Eaters is a quirky, small town, ensemble drama that explores the lives of two interconnected families coming to terms with love in the face of loss. The ensemble cast includes Bruce Dern, Jayce Bartok, Elizabeth Ashley, Miriam Shore, Jesse L. Martin, Aaron Standford and Kristen Stewart.It premiered at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival (read A.M. Peters’ notes here from the Bringing Home the Bacon panel at Tribeca where Masterson was a panelist) an ... " [More]

Deal or No Deal: The Road to Se ...
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"Moderator:Karina Longworth, Spout.com Featuring:Stacy Schoolfield, Producer, Jumping Off BridgesKelly Sanders, Truly IndieSara Pollack, Film Manager, YouTubeMark Halperin, President, Magic Lamp Releasing (absent?) At the very beginning, moderator Karina Longworth laid out the premise of the panel: looking at self-distribution as the first resort, as opposed to the last resort.Stacy Schoolfield was the first panelist to speak. After producing the movie Jumping Off Bridges, Schoolfield took the film to SXSW, expecting it to get a distribution deal. There was no initial distribution deal. Instead, what happened was that a mental health field professional saw the film and thought it would be appropriate to screen for her colleagues. Later, she called theaters in 26 cities and combed Lost fansites (Michael Emerson from that show appears in the film) to promote the film. She got the ultimate flattery when fans began to incorporate clips from Bridges into video tributes to Emerson. Eventu ... " [More]

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