The Film Panel Notetaker

Telling Their Own Stories: The Individual as Documentarian and The Impact of User-Generated Media
(Preceded by Screening of Jennifer Arnold’s A Small Act)
Envision: Addressing Global Issues Through Documentaries
A Joint Program of IFP and the United Nations’ Department of Public Information
TheTimesCenter
New York, NY
July 10, 2010
After a lunch break following the “Education Obstacles and Solutions in Africa – [...]

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Education Obstacles and Solutions in Africa
Envision: Addressing Global Issues Through Documentaries
A Joint Program of IFP and the United Nations’ Department of Public Information
TheTimesCenter
New York, NY
July 10, 2010
By Erin Essenmacher
This panel directly followed the screening of Jennifer Arnold’s documentary  A Small Act.  The film follows the parallel stories of Chris Mburu, a UN worker from Kenya and Hilde [...]

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Keynote Speech: Harry Belafonte
Envision: Addressing Global Issues Through Documentaries
A Joint Program of IFP and the United Nations’ Department of Public Information
TheTimesCenter
New York, NY
July 10, 2010
By Brian Geldin

Photo by Erin Essemmacher.
The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) and the United Nations Department of Public Information (UN DPI) presented its second annual “Envision: Addressing Global Issues through Documentaries” forum [...]

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Two years ago, I visited the United Nations building for the very first time for an event to benefit renewable energy and awareness of climate change where I didn’t get to meet Leonardo DiCaprio.  My friends at IFP have alerted me to their event in which they’ve hooked up with the UN called ENVISION: Addressing [...]

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WFF Woodstock in the City Series Presents
FutureStates
92Y Tribeca
June 30, 2010
By Brian Geldin
A co-production of the Independent Television Service (ITVS), FutureStates is a compilation of science fiction short films by acclaimed filmmakers that poses the theoretical question: What could possibly happen in America within the near future that might reshape humanity, the environment, the economy and [...]

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The Austin Connection
Saturday, May 8 2010 @ 2:15pm, Curtis Theatre, George Eastman House

(L to R: Jim Healy, David Lowery, Bryan Poyser, Alex Karpovsky)
Moderator: Jim Healy, Assistant Curator, George Eastman House
With: David Lowery, Director, St. Nick
Bryan Poyser, Director, Lovers of Hate
Alex Karpovsky, Director, Trust Us, This Is All Made Up
The Austin Connection followed a [...]

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Q & A with Family Affair Director Chico Colvard
Silverdocs
June 24, 2010
By Erin Essenmacher
Family Affair starts with the memory of a shooting. Director Chico Colvard, who narrates the film, explains how in 1978, as a ten year-old boy emulating scenes from his favorite show the “The Rifleman,” he shot his sister with one of the many [...]

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