The Film Panel Notetaker

I am very excited to announce that Contributing Notetaker A.M. Peters’ short film Corporate Whore is a finalist in the 2007 SXSWClick Festival, a year-round initiative created to showcase short-form storytelling via mobile devices and the web presented by South by Southwest (SXSW) Conferences & Festivals.

Corporate Whore is one of 15 finalists in the festival, [...]

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DIY filmmaker Sujewa Ekanayake’s feature comedy, Date Number One, about several first dates, will run from July 12-18 in Kensington, MD, right outside of our nation’s capital.
Last summer, I worked with Sujewa to publicize his NYC debut at the Two Boots Pioneer Theater. Here’s my original blog post about that.
On Sujewa’s blog today, Sujewa talks [...]

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On Saturday, I saw an important documentary at the Museum of the Moving Image (MMI) called Revolution ‘67, about one of the many riots that took place in several urban areas throughout the U.S. in the 196os, this one in particular in Newark, New Jersey, where racial tensions, economic disparities and political corruption were among [...]

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On Friday, I received an email from Shooting People member who asked me if I took notes at a panel discussion at Silverdocs called “FILMANTHROPY” – CREATIVE FINANCING & MAVERICK MARKETING FOR DOCUMENTARIES.”
I unfortunately wasn’t able to make it to that one myself, so I emailed some folks I met at Silverdocs to see if [...]

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Following up on my notes from June 10th’s Maysles Film Program at BAM with Albert Maysles (Grey Gardens), I would like to include the below notes from a Silverdocs Q and A with Antonio Ferrera, co-director of The Gates, as a companion piece. I was so moved by the presentation at BAM last week that [...]

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When I stopped in at the Silverdocs Cinema Lounge on Saturday, I happened upon the panel discussion “What’s It Worth”: Value vs. Values. Below are some notes I took. Unfortunately, I missed the final portion of the discussion, because I was heading back over to the AFI/Silver Theater for the Sterling Awards Ceremony. If anyone [...]

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On Saturday, I attended the SILVERDOCS AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival 2007 in Silver Spring, Maryland. I had the opportunity to see Weijun Chen’s Please Vote For Me, which won the Sterling Award for Best Feature. Please Vote For Me is about “a third grade class in Wahun province (in China) and the intense politicking in [...]

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On Sunday, I attended a panel discussion titled “Participatory Filmmaking” presented by Tribeca Enterprises newest venture Tomorrow Unlimited. The panelists not only talked about their projects, but also to showed portions of their projects to the audience.
The Creators Series:“Participatory Filmmaking”Presented by Tomorrow UnlimitedJune 10, 2007NYC

Panelists:Martin Percy – Interactive Filmmaker, MovieActive.comMatt Hanson – Film Futurist, [...]

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Annaliese Griffin from The Reeler has the scoop from a panel discussion that was part of Sundance Institute at BAM on Sunday. Unfortunately, I was unable to attend the panel, which was moderated by Sundance documentary film director Cara Mertes and had Joan Churchill, Barbara Kopple, Albert Maysles and Raoul Peck as panelists. Luckily, [...]

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I went to the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) on Sunday for the Maysles Films Program, a special showcase curated just for Sundance Institute at BAM. Documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles presented clips from his and his late brother David’s archive spanning from the 1950s to a sneak peak of Albert’s latest project In Transit.
Excerpts screened [...]

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