The Film Panel Notetaker

My friend Florence from Singapore told me some good news about a film she produced there called SOLOS that will have its U.S. premiere at AFI Fest in November. SOLOS is the first Singaporean film to be selected by AFI Fest. If you will be in Los Angeles during the festival, please check out the [...]

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2007 Hamptons International Film FestivalBody of WarSouthampton TheaterSouthampton, NYOctober 20, 20076:00 pm
A Film Still from Body of War: Tomas Young and Robert Byrd, Washington, D.C.
On Saturday, legendary daytime television talk show host Phil Donahue sat on a panel discussion that delved into issues of science and the media during the 2007 Hamptons International Film [...]

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2007 Hamptons International Film FestivalAlfred P. Sloan Foundation Film Discussion:The Diving Bell and The ButterflyThe Ross School – East Hampton, NYOctober 20, 20073:00 pm

(L to R: Phil Donahue, David Schwartz, Stuart Firestein & Alec Baldwin)

Continuing with my science lesson, I attended the Alfred P. Sloan Film Discussion: The Diving Bell and The Butterfly. In [...]

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2007 Hamptons International Film FestivalScreenplay Reading of Wonder DrugSponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan FoundationThe Ross School – East Hampton, NYOctober 20, 20072:00 pm

(“Wonder Drug” screenwriter Caitlin McCarthy and scientific advisor P. Harry Jellinck)
I hopped on the Hampton Jitney free shuttle bus from The Hunting Inn in East Hampton at about 1:45 pm, and arrived [...]

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Indiepix and NetworkedPlanet Launch World’s First Knowledge-BasedNavigation Database For Independent Film
Today, I listened in on a press conference given by Indiepix and NetworkedPlanet where they announced the launch of Discovery, “the first knowledge-based navigation of the world’s largest database for independent films.” On the call was Bob Alexander, Indiepix President, and Kal Ahmed, Founder of [...]

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2007 Woodstock Film FestivalActor’s DialogueOctober 14, 200710:00am

(L to R: Martha Frankel, Patricia Clarkson & Steve Guttenberg)
The Actor’s Dialogue panel discussion at the Woodstock Film Festival was my favorite I attended there. Martha Frankel was an excellent moderator. She was very prepared with her questions and kept the discussion moving along smoothly. She was able to [...]

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Tim Sternberg, who I met back at the Tribeca Film Festival, received some really good news this past week. His short doc, Salim Baba, has been shortlisted for a Best Short Documentary Oscar nomination. Read all about it here. Salim Baba also won the Maverick Award for Best Short Doc this weekend at the [...]

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Today is Blog Action Day. According to the Blog Action Day website, today “bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind – the environment. Every blogger will post about the environment in their own way and relating to their own topic. Our aim is to get everyone [...]

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I just returned from the Woodstock Film Festival in Upstate New York. Look out this week for our notes from the panel discussions. In the mean time, here’s an announcement below from the festival press office about some of the festival’s award winners. You can read about the rest here.
WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL MAVERICK AWARDSPresented To [...]

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2007 Woodstock Film Festival
For the Love of Julian
Saturday, October 13, 2007
I kicked off my jaunt at the Woodstock Film Festival in Woodstock, NY with a special screening of the feature documentary, For the Love Of Julian, directed by Meira Blaustein and narrated by Susan Sarandon. Per Amazon.com, it is “an inspired and personal documentary about [...]

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