The Film Panel Notetaker

Here’s an update from my post last week about the films Inspiration and Hacker Ethic, both currently fundraising on the awesome online social marketplace known as IndieGoGo.com, whose innovative mantra is Do It With Others (DIWO).

First off, Inspiration met it’s $5,000 goal. Now, Hacker Ethic has begun it’s first round of fundraising. Its goal is [...]

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New York International Latino Film FestivalNickel N’ Diming Financing – Find the Right DealJuly 24, 2008
On Thursday, I attended for the very first time the New York International Latino Film Festival, which presented over 100 films throughout the week. Earlier in the day after picking up my press badge from the Roger Smith Hotel, I [...]

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This past weekend, I helped out filmmaker and frequent contributing notetaker AMPeters (NO Cross, NO Crown) begin work on Hacker Ethic, a provocative feature documentary that explores the politics and culture of the latest generation of hackers. One resource we’ll be utilizing to raise funds for the film is the online social marketplace IndieGoGo [...]

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IndiePix has hired Ryan Harrington to head up Indiepix Studios, the world’s first virtual studio for independent filmmakers that provides a major new production and distribution outlet. Harrington will be responsible for overseeing all of the filmmaker relations as well as managing the productions which IndiePix has invested in – by taking on executive [...]

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Congratulations to all of the lucky filmmakers who were bestowed with Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film for 2008. The Film Panel Notetaker has been very fortunate to have met many of these talented filmmakers in the past year. Below is the list of all 25 of the filmmakers highlighted in the magazine. [...]

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Congrats to indieWIRE, which just got snagged up by SnagFilms, a new social networking website that offers free instant streaming and viral sharing of hundreds of documentary films. indieWIRE will provide archival and news content for SnagFilms and the company’s virtual movie theater widgets, including breaking news from the indie sector, comprehensive film reviews and [...]

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GenArt Presents Advanced Screening of Brad Anderson’s Transsiberian

(Transsiberian Director Brad Anderson.)
Wednesday night in New York, a special advanced screening of Brad Anderson’s newest film Transsiberian was held at the AMC Loewes Village 7 presented by GenArt Film. Anderson’s previous features include The Machinist (starring The Dark Knight’s Christian Bale), Next Stop Wonderland , Session 9 [...]

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Sujewa’s now back in Kensington, MD, after his road trip with girlfriend Amanda to meet and interview indie film bloggers for his documentary The Indie Film Bloggers: A Portrait of a Community. Sujewa and Amanda made stops in North Carolina and Atlanta, Georgia. Among those interviewed were Noralil Ryan Fores of ShortEnd Magazine (who has [...]

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The Film Panel Notetaker’s
One-on-One Q&A with…Tambay A. Obenson
Director, Beautiful Things and Blogger, The Obenson Report

As previously reported, I met filmmaker and blogger Tambay A. Obenson a few weekends back when Sujewa Ekanayake was in town shooting interviews for his upcoming documentary, The Indie Film Bloggers: A Portrait of a Community. Here is my [...]

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The Film Panel Notetaker’s One-on-One Q&A with…

Dawn Scibilia – Director, Producer, DP, Editor&Alan Cooke – Producer, Writer, Narrator

Over the weekend, I got a pleasant surprise when Alan Cooke sent me an instant chat message from Ireland on Facebook. He asked me if I had seen the documentary he produced, wrote, and narrated called Home. [...]

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