The Film Panel Notetaker

Stranger Than FictionFilm As a Subversive Art: Amos Vogel & Cinema 16Q&A with Cinema 16 Veteran Jack GoelmanIFC CenterJanuary 29, 2008

(Thom Powers and Jack Goelman)

Week four of Thom Powers’ (TP) popular documentary series at New York’s IFC Center, *Stranger Than Fiction, presented last night director Paul Cronin’s Film As a Subversive Art: Amos Vogel [...]

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Chop Shop Preview and Q&AMuseum of the Moving Image – Astoria, NYJanuary 26, 2008

(Left to Right: Livia Bloom, Alejandro Polanco & Ramin Bahrani)

At the Museum of the Moving Image on Saturday, Ramin Bahrani (RB), director and writer of Chop Shop, and the film’s young star Alejandro Polanco (AP) answered questions during a Q&A, moderated [...]

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2008 Sundance Award Winners
Last night, the jury and audience award-winners of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival were announced at the Sundance Film Festival’s closing Awards Ceremony hosted by William H. Macy.
And the awards went to…
The Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – TROUBLE THE WATER
The Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – FROZEN RIVER
The World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary [...]

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With the announcement of the Oscar nominations earlier this week, my friend Stephanie pointed out a cool site called The Felixes, which touts itself as the Anti-Oscars™. There you will find jokes on the Oscars and a ballot for the winning movies. Check it out.

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Received another Twitter text from Arin Crumley yesterday, this time notifying me that he posted a video from last fall’s Evil City Film Festival panel discussion, “Filmmakers Tell All.” You can view Arin’s video on his blog here. Ingrid Kopp of Shooting People was the moderator, and the panelists were Leah Meyerhoff, John Putch, Arin [...]

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Since posting about From Here to Awesome on Monday, I received a twitter text message from Arin Crumley today that there’s an interview with him on NewTeeVee talking about From Here to Awesome. Have a look here.
And you can also watch a clip here below:

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The 2008 Sundance Film Festival is approximately at its half-way mark today. Here’s a couple of tidbits from the festival panels so far that I found while surfing the net.
Strike Panel:EW.com
Webolution Panel:CNet
Film Church Panel:Deseret Morning News
Women in Film Panel:Cinematical

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I’m giving this “live” blogging thing a try, or at least just a few minutes past live blogging. The Oscar nominations were just announced on Good Morning America. The awards are scheduled for February 24. Will the writer’s strike affect the ceremony? We’ll have to wait and see.
In the mean time, here’s a very abbreviated [...]

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I’m slightly late on posting about this, but thanks to me checking in with my new IndieGoGo profile, I was reminded just now about what seems to be quite a revolutionary new film festival called FROM HERE TO AWESOME, founded by DIY filmmakers Lance Weiler (The Last Broadcast, Head Trauma), Arin Crumley (Four Eyed Monsters) [...]

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‘Cinema Eye’ Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking Nominations Announced
More news on the 2008 Awards for Excellence in Nonfiction Filmmaking Announced, now called the ‘Cinema Eye’ Awards (named after the revolutionary group of young filmmakers led by pioneering documentarian Dziga Vertov). Nominations were announced yesterday during the Sundance Film Festival. Congratulations to all the nominees. Into Great [...]

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