The Film Panel Notetaker

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Tribeca Mini-Reviews: What to Catch
Tribeca Film Festival
New York, NY
April 2010
With the final weekend of the Tribeca Film Festival upon us and last-minute screenings being added as we speak, here are my two cents on the festival films so far. I enjoyed the movies for the most part, but the [...]

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American Mystic Q & A with Director Alex Mar
Tribeca Film Festival
New York, NY
April 22, 2010
Filmmaker Alex Mar and I worked together in the MTV Newsroom until she left to direct her first documentary. Lo and behold, less than two years later, I got to attend her film’s world premiere [...]

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My Take on the “Take-Back Manifesto”
By Brian Geldin
On April 9, Mike Tully posted on his blog, Boredom at Its Boredest, his “Take-Back Manifesto,” in which he asked his readers to sign a petition that says: “we film lovers of all types—critics, reviewers, screenwriters, directors, producers, production assistants, grandparents, art history snobs, couch potatoes, Multiplex squatters, [...]

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Tanner Hall Q & A
GenArt Film Festival
New York, NY
April 13, 2010
Of all seven start-studded Gen Art Film Festival nights, I was happy to be covering this one, as Gen Art’s Jeff Abramson called it an evening “celebrating women in film.” Being a woman-in-film myself, I’m always happy to support [...]

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Seven Shorts Screening & Filmmaker Talkback
GenArt Film Festival
New York, NY
April 10, 2010
Of the seven short films shown this afternoon at the GenArt Film Festival, my favorite was The Poodle Trainer (paired last night with the feature Teenage Paparazzo), not only because it was the only short documentary, and not only because the poodles were incredibly [...]

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Teenage Paparazzo
GenArt Film Festival
Q&A with Director Adrian Grenier
New York, NY
April 10, 2010
When does snapping photos of celebrities go too far? Don’t celebrities deserve their privacy? Does being a celebrity or public figure give the paparazzi the right to do what they do? Don’t celebrities need the paparazzi to make their careers? These and other issues [...]

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Valuable Lessons Learned from DIYDays NYC
April 3, 2010
Notes by Brian Geldin
DIYDays, a roving conference series for those who create, rolled into New York City’s New School University yesterday. DIYDays founder Lance Weiler, – also the creator of the WorkBook Project, an open creative network – remarked, “We’re in a really amazing time where we’re [...]

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