The Film Panel Notetaker

Posted by Liz Nord / Twitter @lizfilm
Why Documentaries Matter
92 Y Lectures and Conversations Series
New York, NY
May 26, 2010
Panelists:

Sheila Nevins, President, HBO Documentary Films (MODERATOR)
Al Maysles, legendary documentary filmmaker (Grey Gardens, Lalee’s Kin)
DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, veteran documentary film team (The War Room, Elaine Stritch at Liberty, Don’t Look Back)
Alexandra Pelosi, filmmaker (The Trials of [...]

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Presentation of the Honorary Scholar Award to James Ivory
May 5, 2010 @ 6:30pm
George Eastman House, Rochester, New York

With:
James Ivory, Director, City of Your Final Destination
Jim Healy, Assistant Curator, George Eastman House
Director James Ivory was the center of the opening night festivities to Rochester’s 360 | 365 Festival. Ivory was being awarded the George Eastman [...]

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One-on-One Q&A with Bradley Glenn
Director, Battle of the Bozos
By Brian Geldin

“The Battle of the Bozos” Trailer from Bradley Glenn on Vimeo.
On a beautiful sunny day in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, I met up with filmmaker Bradley Glenn for a One-on-One Q&A during the first annual Docnic (short for Documentary Picnic and organized by Lesli Klainberg). Glenn [...]

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One-On-One Q&A with Lena Dunham
Writer/Director, Tiny Furniture

Interview by Erin Scherer
This interview has been a long time coming. I’ve been wanting to interview Lena since I met her at SXSW 2009, when her first feature, Creative Nonfiction, played at the festival. We had initially tried to do the interview this past March, while she [...]

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Tribeca Film Festival 2010
Quotable Quotes from the Q&As
By Brian Geldin
Freetime Machos:
Freetime Machos was much more than just a sports documentary about a Rugby team in Oulu, Finland (one of the worst scoring teams in its league), but more about the relationships, friendships, and bonds that are made amongst its players and their everyday lives.
Quotable Quotes:
When [...]

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Tribeca Film Festival
Joan Rivers – A Piece of Work
April 26, 2010
By Brian Geldin
Joan Rivers – A Piece of Work is a vérité portrait of the tireless, ballsy and hilarious veteran of show business, Joan Rivers, who has been through many highs and lows, and will do almost anything for a laugh, no matter what the obstacle. A [...]

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Tribeca Film Festival
The Other City
April 26, 2010
By Brian Geldin
Susan Koch’s eye-opening and heartbreaking documentary, The Other City, examines the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS, activists fighting for HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention, and organizations caring for people dying of the disease in our nation’s capital, Washington, DC, which has an alarming 3% of its population [...]

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Tribeca Film Festival
Checking Up on Docs: A Conversation with Sheila Nevins
Moderated by Geoffrey Gilmore
April 25, 2010
By Brian Geldin
Sheila Nevins, head of HBO Documentary Films, sat down for an intimate discussion with Tribeca’s Geoffrey Gilmore to discuss her illustrious career at the cable TV network as a pioneering executive and how the documentary form has evolved [...]

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