The Film Panel Notetaker

Tonight at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, honored guests broke virtual ground for the Museum’s previously announced $65 million renovation-construction. Among the notable groundbreakers were Museum Director Rochelle Slovin, renovation architect Thomas Leeser, the current and former Queens Borough Presidents Helen M. Marshall and Claire Shulman respectively, New York City Councilman Peter [...]

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The Axe in the AtticQ&A with Co-Director Lucia SmallThe Museum of the Moving ImageAstoria, NYFebruary 23, 2008
(Livia Bloom and Lucia Small)

Saturday night, the Museum of the Moving Image presented the documentary The Axe in the Attic by filmmakers Ed Pincus and Lucia Small about their personal journey to chronicle the people who were displaced [...]

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The people behind From Here to Awesome, which I previously reported on, have posted two new videos available under Creative Commons attribution for embeding, re-editing and re-posting or television airing. Check them out.
The first video shows the frustration of filmmakers and audiences in the current system and has some pretty funny moments and solid info:
The [...]

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Interview:The Axe in the Attic Filmmakers
Ed Pincus & Lucia Small

Photo credit: Henry Morgan
On Saturday, filmmakers Ed Pincus and Lucia Small will present their documentary The Axe in the Attic at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria at 6:30pm. I highly encourage anyone who will be in the area to attend this film [...]

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I would like to thank Professor Paula Landry for inviting me to speak Friday night in her Film Business class that she co-instructs with Professor and President Stephen R. Greenwald at Metropolitan College of New York, my alma matter where I attended grad school for Media Management a few years back. The program served as [...]

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As indicated in a previous post, today SXSW posted the complete film panel schedule online. Panels run from Saturday, March 8 through Tuesday, March 11. See here which panels you’d like to attend if you’ll be in Austin during the festival.

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Stranger Than Fiction
WHOLPHIN
IFC Center
February 12, 2008

Wholphin’s Brent Hoff and Emily Doe at Minetta Tavern after Stranger Than Fiction

Two weeks ago, The Film Panel Notetaker shared notes from the Film as A Subversive Art Q&A at Thom Powers’ popular documentary series at New York’s IFC Center, *Stranger Than Fiction. Last night was week six of STF [...]

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Here’s the latest news from the SXSW press office about the planned panel discussions. Stay tuned to The Film Panel Notetaker in March when I’ll be there covering the panels over the first few days of the fest. I am especially looking forward to the Stanley Nelson, Helen Hunt, and Writers Strike panels, and the [...]

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A Tribute to St. Clair BourneMuseum of the Moving Image – Astoria, NYFebruary 10, 2008

(L to R: Armond White, Esther Iverem, Warrington Hudlin, George Alexander, Clyde Taylor and David Schwartz)

(Filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles in the audience)

At the Museum of the Moving Image on Sunday, critics and scholars were in person to discuss the career of [...]

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The Museum of the Moving Image (MMI) in The Film Panel Notetaker’s neighborhood of Astoria, Queens, has announced that it will hold a groundbreaking celebration for its $65 million expansion and renovation project on February 27. Anticipated for completion in late 2009, the “project will double the current size of the Museum, transforming the entire [...]

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