The Film Panel Notetaker

IFP announced some very cool news today about their latest project lab for distribution. Jon Reiss, whom Erin Scherer interviewed here on The Film Panel Notetaker a few weeks back, is one of the two main collaborators on IFP’s 2010 Distribution Lab, along with Ted Hope. Read all about it in the IFP press release below.
For Immediate Release [...]

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Posted by Liz Nord / Twitter @lizfilm
The Conversation
March 27, 2010
Columbia University, New York, NY
I have to admit, I’ve been a bit jaded at independent film events lately, where the overwhelming sentiment seems to be, “We’re screwed.” I am therefore over-the-moon happy to report that The Conversation was no such day. I guess I should have [...]

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Posted by Liz Nord | Twitter: @lizfilm
IFP’s 2010 Script to Screen Conference
Day #2, Sunday, March 21
92Y Tribeca, New York, NY
The Chief Notetaker and I spent a gorgeous, sunny day inside a windowless theatre for IFP’s Script to Screen conference, and it was all worth it for one hour spent with the charming Terry George. The [...]

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One-On-One Q&A with Jon Reiss
Author, Think Outside The Box Office

Interview by Erin Scherer

Perhaps it was inevitable that Jon Reiss would be the one to write a book on self-distribution. Reiss (pronounced “Reese”) began his career with Target Video in the 1980s, a group that taped performances of important punk bands of [...]

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Filmmaker Magazine editor Scott Macaulay points to an excellent article by Mark Suster of the “Both Sides of the Table” blog  about etiquette for panelists and moderators during panel discussions. Check it out here.
For those of you who will be attending SXSW in Austin, Scott will be on a panel called “Anatomy of a Release; [...]

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UnionDocs Presents Inductive Thread
MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight
February 20, 2010 (Notes by Brian Geldin)
New York, NY
As a viewer of documentary film in the cinematic sense, I was deeply challenged, yet profoundly informed by a strange, yet entertaining two-part experimental nonfiction film and essay production called “Inductive Thread,” presented by Brooklyn nonprofit UnionDocs during MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight. Inductive [...]

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