The Film Panel Notetaker

One-on-One Q&A with Hugo Perez
Director/Producer, Neither Memory Nor Magic

Hugo Perez

I recently sat down with filmmaker Hugo Perez to discuss his documentary feature film debut, Neither Memory Nor Magic, in preparation for its New York premiere during the 2009 MoMA Documentary Fortnight on Feb. 22. Neither Memory Nor Magic beautifully and hauntingly tells the story of [...]

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If you’re in New York on Tuesday, I hope you’ll head on over to Anthology Film Archives for the World Premiere of Sujewa Ekanayake’s documentary Indie Film Blogger Road Trip, a film that I had the pleasure of being interviewed for last summer.

Opening 9 minutes of Indie Film Blogger Road Trip.

Here’s all the details below, [...]

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Stranger Than FictionThe Axe in the AtticQ&A with directors Lucia Small and Ed PincusIFC CenterNew York, NYFebruary 10, 2009

(A sold-out crowd enjoys the Q&A with Lucia Small & Ed Pincus moderated by Thom Powers. Photo by A.M. Peters.)

Last winter, I conducted a One-on-One Q&A with filmmakers Ed Pincus and Lucia Small before their documentary, The [...]

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A few weeks back, I attended a work-in-progress documentary screening of Augusta Palmer’s The Hand of Fatima at DocuClub that Pamela Cohn moderated. I was very honored when DocuClub’s Felix Endara asked me to moderate the upcoming DocuClub on Feb. 25 at The Tank (354 West 45th Street) in New York.
The film will be Our [...]

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Here’s a look at the panels that are planned for the 2009 SXSW Film Conference.

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Stranger Than FictionMust Read After My DeathQ&A with director Morgan DewsIFC CenterNew York, NYFebruary 3, 2008

(Morgan Dews and David Nugent. Photo by Brian Geldin.)
Last night’s Stranger Than Fiction was Morgan Dews’ Must Read After My Death, “a documentary about documentation” or in other words, Dews took his late Grandmother Allis’s home movies and audio tapes [...]

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The School of Visual Arts will officially open its brand new screening facility this spring in the heart of New York’s Chelsea neighborhood. A culmination of a nearly 40-year vision by its director Gene Stavis, the Visual Arts Theater will be a world-class cultural center and laboratory for the visual arts providing a state-of-the-art cinema [...]

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