The Film Panel Notetaker

Quiet City Q&A – IFC Center – August 29, 2007
Aaron Katz, DirectorBrendan McFadden, ProducerErin Fischer, “Jamie”Chris Lankenau, “Charlie”Andy Reed, CinematographerKeegan DeWitt, Music…and others
Quiet City is currently playing at the IFC Center for a week-long run and is part of the series, “The New Talkies: Generation DIY.” FYI, last Thursday, I also attended indieWIRE’s “An Evening [...]

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August 21, 2007: Industry Connect – Film Fest StrategiesSponsored by Warner Independent Pictures
David Nugent, Moderator: Festival Programmer (Gotham Awards, IFP Market)Kerry Weldon: Filmmaker, Festival Director (NewFest)Mary Jane Skalski: Filmmaker (Station Agent)Steven Raphael: Sales Agent (Pan’s Labyrinth, Favela Rising)
This panel was hosted by IFP and held at the SOHO House in the meat packing district of [...]

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DIY filmmaker Sujewa Ekanayake (Date Number One), who was in town from DC, and I headed over to the Apple Store in Soho Thursday night where we met up with A.M. Peters (NO Cross, NO Crown) for indieWIRE’s “An Evening with Generation DIY.” After the panel discussion, we met up with iW and other film [...]

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Wednesday night, I met up with DIY filmmaker Sujewa Ekanayake (Date Number One), who came in from DC, and documentary filmmaker Liz Nord (Jericho’s Echo: Punk Rock in the Holy Land) where we saw the premier of Joe Swanberg’s new film Hannah Takes the Stairs at the IFC Center in New York. The film has [...]

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Gauri Sathe and Shreekant Pol, my friends, mentors, and Indian cinema gurus whom I met during my days at Metropolitan College of New York’s Media Management program, are now collaborating with Indiepix to bring their Indie India Collection direct to viewers via DVD and Download-to-Own technology. As karma would have it, I had the great [...]

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