The Film Panel Notetaker

Understand The Audience! Then Develop The Programs: An “Insider’s Guide” To How Factual Television Channels Develop And Commission Programs
Silverdocs
June 23 & 24, 2010
By Erin Essenmacher
The panel, featuring A & E’s Director of Development Stephen Harris and moderated by documentarytelevision.com founder and industry veteran Peter Hamilton, gave a behind-the-scenes peek into the development and commissioning process at a [...]

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Wo Ai Ni Mommy (I Love You, Mommy)
Q&A with Director, Stephanie Wang-Breal
Silverdocs
June 22, 2010
By Erin Essenmacher
Stephanie Wang-Breal’s Wo Ai Ni Mommy (I Love You, Mommy) provides incredible emotional access into the complex world of transracial, international adoption.   The film is equal parts heartwarming, laugh-out-loud funny, uncomfortable and at times, viscerally upsetting (the woman next to [...]

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Funding/Self-Distribution Case Study: The Way We Get By
Silverdocs
June 23, 2010
By Erin Essenmacher
I was totally mesmerized by Aron Gaudet’s and Gita Pullapilly’s The Way We Get By when I first saw the film at last year’s International Film Festival Boston.  I was intrigued (but not totally surprised) when I heard they had developed a DIY distribution [...]

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CRUDE Screening & Benefit for Joe Berlinger’s Legal Defense Fund
Stranger Than Fiction
June 22, 2010
New York, NY
By Brian Geldin

L to R: Thom Powers, Joe Berlinger, Maura Wogan, Morgan Spurlock and Michael Winship. Not pictured: Ilan Maazel. Photo by Brian Geldin.
As reported in the press recently, Chevron served a subpoena on Joe Berlinger’s documentary CRUDE in [...]

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Freakonomics Q&A at Silverdocs
June 21, 2010
By Erin Essenmacher
The 8th annual AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Film Festival & Conference opened in Silver Spring, Maryland on Monday evening with a special screening of the film Freakonomics, based on Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner’s bestselling book, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Exposes the Hidden Side of Everything. The film features [...]

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Violet Tendencies
Q&A with director Casper Andreas and Cast & Crew at Newfest
New York, NY
June 12, 2010
By Brian Geldin

Violet Tendencies, director Casper Andreas’ latest film, premiered last night during the Closing Night of NewFest: The New York LGBT Film Festival. The film stars the very charming and funny Mindy Cohn (perhaps best known for her role [...]

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Sisyphus Reconsidered: The Screenwriter’s Panel
Film 360 | 365
Saturday May 8, 2010 @ 11:30 am
Curtis Theatre, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York.

L-R: Gordy Hoffman, Paul Root, Drew Yanno, Nicholas DiBella
Moderator:
Stan Main, founder, Rochester Movie Makers

With:
Gordy Hoffman, writer, Love, Liza; founder of the Bluecat Screenplay Competition
Paul Root, co-writer, Cherry Crush; author, Moving Pictures
Drew Yanno, author, [...]

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10th Annual Media That Matters Festival
June 2, 2010
New York, NY
By Brian Geldin
A screening of the tenth annual Media That Matters collection took place June 2 at the SVA Theater in New York (and simultaneously in Minneapolis). 12 incredible thought-provoking, mostly social issue documentaries, each 12 minutes or less, were screened. Themes included health insurance, [...]

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