The Film Panel Notetaker

Tribeca Film FestivalBehind the Screens – Under Our SkinDGA TheaterNew York, NYApril 27, 2008

Under Our Skin according to imdb :

Arguably the most overlooked and misdiagnosed ailment currently verging on epidemic throughout the United States, Lyme disease and the controversies surrounding its identification and treatment are the focus of this documentary.

Panelists:Dr. Richard Horowitz., specialist in [...]

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Tribeca Film FestivalInternational Press Meet & GreetTribeca Target Filmmaker LoungeApril 28, 2008

I met several international filmmakers with shorts and feature length narratives and documentaries from such countries as Israel, Mexico, Australia and more Monday night during a press meet & greet at the Tribeca Target Filmmaker Lounge. The list below are the filmmakers I met [...]

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Glory at SeaFundraiser ScreeningWalter Reade TheaterNew York, NYApril 26, 2008
Court 13 International and Rooftop Films presented a fundraiser screening to a sold-out audience of Benh Zeitlin’s short film Glory at Sea Saturday night at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater. On their way to Austin, TX, from New Orleans, LA, last month [...]

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Tribeca Film FestivalBehind the Screens – Lake CityDirectors Guild TheaterApril 26, 2008
Acclaimed film actress Sissy Spacek (Carrie, Coal Miner’s Daughter) participated in a discussion lead by Variety’s Dade Hayes during the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival after a screening of her latest film, Lake City, written and directed by Perry Moore and Hunter Hill. Lake City [...]

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Tribeca Film FestivalConversations in Cinema – Standard Operating ProcedureDirectors Guild TheaterApril 24, 2008

Academy-Award-winning documentary filmmaker Errol Morris (The Fog of War) participated in a discussion lead by Jarhead author Anthony Swofford during the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival after a screening of Standard Operating Procedure, Morris’ latest film where he interviews the American soldiers who took [...]

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SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival will honor Spike Lee at its Charles Guggenheim Symposium during the June fest. The Film Panel Notetaker will return to Silver Spring, MD, for a second year in a row to bring you coverage of the panels, filmmaker Q&As, and more. Stay tuned. Here’s my coverage from last year’s [...]

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One-on-One Q&A: Director/Screenwriter, Phillip Van

A scene from Phillip Van’s She Stares Longingly At What She Has Lost.
She Stares Longingly At What She Has Lost is the title of Phillip Van’s segment of Little Minx, a new web film series produced by Rhea Scott and based on the French parlor game of the same name where [...]

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My good friend Jay Paramsothy, whom I worked with on his short film Blinding Goldfish that enjoyed a nice festival run a few years ago, will be directing a staged reading of his new feature-length screenplay The Emperor Has Arrived, co-written by Catherine Torphy, at SALAAM Theatre in New York City on Monday, April 21. [...]

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One-on-One Q&A:
Sue WilliamsDirector, Young & Restless in China

Young & Restless in China, a new documentary from director Sue Williams and her company Ambrica Productions, opens April 11 for a week-long stint at New York’s Cinema Village as well as at Laemmle Theatres – Grande 4 in Los Angeles. The film “follows the lives of [...]

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Stranger Than FictionJoin UsIFC Center – New York, NYApril 8, 2008

Tuesday night at IFC Center in New York, Ondi Timoner’s Join Us, a documentary that chronicles four families who undergo treatment at a cult recovery center in California after being controlled and abused by a pastor in a South Carolina church, played during Thom Powers’ [...]

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