The Film Panel Notetaker

Hello Everyone,
I covered the 2009 SXSW and Woodstock Film Festivals for The Film Panel Notetaker.
On Monday, I published an interview I did with Andrew Bujalski in The Ithaca Journal’s blogs section, in preparation for a screening of Beeswax at Cornell Cinema this weekend.
To read the interview, just click on the picture of Andrew.
Thanks,Erin Scherer

[Read more →]

Documentaries: Then and NowOctober 4th, 2009, @ 10amUtopia Studios, Bearsville, New York

L-R: Rachel Grady, Molly Thompson, Barbara Kopple, Leon Gast, and Emily KunstlerNot Pictured: AJ Schnack
Moderator:Molly Thompson, VP, A&E IndieFilms
Panelists:AJ Schnack, Director, ConventionRachel Grady, Director, Jesus CampBarbara Kopple, Director, Woodstock: Now and ThenLeon Gast, Director, When We Were KingsEmily Kunstler, Director, William Kunstler: Disturbing the [...]

[Read more →]

Music in FilmOctober 3rd, 2009, @ 2pmUtopia Studios, Bearsville, New York

L-R: T. Griffin, Jonathan Demme, Doreen Ringer-Ross, Tom DiCillo, and Tze Chun
Moderator:Doreen Ringer-Ross, VP, Film-TV Relations, BMIPanelists:T. Griffin, Score Composer, Children of InventionJonathan Demme, Director, Neil Young Trunk ShowTom DiCillo, Director, When You’re StrangeTze Chun, Director, Children of Invention

Late in the Music in Film Panel, [...]

[Read more →]

The Changing Face of Independent Film at The Woodstock Film FestivalOctober 3rd, 2009, @ NoonUtopia Studios, Bearsville, New York

L-R: Peter Saraf, Scott Macaulay, John Sloss, Ira Sachs, and Richard Linklater
Moderator:Scott Macaulay, Editor, Filmmaker Magazine
Panelists:Richard Linklater, Director, Me & Orson WellesJohn Sloss, Founder, Cinetic MediaIra Sachs, Director, Married LifePeter Saraf, Producer, Little Miss Sunshine

“I don’t think [...]

[Read more →]

The Actor’s DialogueWoodstock Film FestivalSunday, October 4, 2008
Of Lucy Liu, John Ventimiglia and Vera Farmiga, which actor:a) Received goat semen via Fedex to inseminate into his or her own goat with a straw…and also speaks Ukrainian?b) Plays the ukulele with his or her child…and also speaks Sicilian?c) Is unsure if his or her parents understand [...]

[Read more →]

Film Criticism & JournalismWoodstock Film FestivalSaturday, October 3, 2009
Is the issue of where film criticism and journalism going still an important and relevant topic? Absolutely. Should it be constantly beat over the head with a stick? Not necessarily, as there are lots of other interesting topics that could be explored on a panel discussion. Some [...]

[Read more →]

“Eyes Wide Open”Q&A with Director Haim TabakmanWoodstock Film FestivalOctober 3, 2009

“Eyes Wide Open” is a beautiful and sensitive film set and made in Israel about a ultra-Orthodox man, married with children, who inherits his father’s butcher shop. His life becomes complicated when he meets a drifter, a young man who was kicked out of the [...]

[Read more →]

“Children of Invention”Q&A with Director Tze Chun, Cast & CrewWoodstock Film FestivalOctober 3, 2009

CHILDREN OF INVENTION HD Trailer #1 from Children of Invention on Vimeo.
The second half of “Children of Invention,” Tze Chun’s touching drama about two inventive Asian-American children, older brother Raymond (played by Michael Chen) and younger sister Tina (played by Crystal Chiu), [...]

[Read more →]

Amazing Women in FilmWoodstock Film FestivalOctober 3, 2009
I know the headline for this blog sounds a little macabre and something you might see in Weekly Weird News, but it’s just a pun for saying that I watched half of Tze Chun’s “Children of Invention” and half of the panel, Amazing Women in Film. How is [...]

[Read more →]

Redesigning Humanity – The New FrontierWoodstock Film FestivalOctober 2, 2009
This may be one of the most unique film panels assembled in recent history, but how will it measure up to the future? Well, that was sort of the question debated in this very interesting and informative discussion. In conjunction with the World Premiere of Richard [...]

[Read more →]