The Film Panel Notetaker

Posted by Liz Nord | Twitter @lizfilm
Q & A with *Bombay Beach director Alma Har’el
Tribeca Film Festival
New York, NY
April 26, 2011
*Since this was originally posted, Bombay Beach won Best Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Alma Har’el is a rockstar. OK, technically, she is a director who hangs out with rockstars, but her shock of red [...]

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Posted by Liz Nord | Twitter @lizfilm
Tribeca Talks Industry – Meet the Documentary Broadcasters
Tribeca Film Festival
New York, NY
April 23, 2011

This informative panel of top-notch industry execs moderated by prolific producer John Battsek will apparently soon be broadcast in its entirety on the Tribeca site. I’ll therefore cut right to the chase and answer the [...]

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Posted by Liz Nord | Twitter: @lizfilm
One of my favorite things about film festivals is when, due to random screening schedules and viewing choices, two seemingly unrelated films become more interesting in the context of each other. This happened on my first day at Tribeca ‘11, with two films that could not have seemed more [...]

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Fundraising in a Box: Crowdsourcing Microgrants
March 14, 2011 @ 3:30pm, Austin Convention Center
Moderator:
Dianne Debicella, Fractured Atlas
Panelists:
Angela Tucker, Director, Asexuality: The Making Of A Movement
Danae Ringelmann, Founder, IndieGoGo
Jed Cohen, Founder, Rockethub

Where’s The Money? Finding the Right Funding for Your Film
March 15, 2011 @ 11am, Austin Convention Center
Moderator:
Bryan Poyser, Texas Filmmakers’ Production [...]

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Sex It Up!
Moderator:
Lisa Vandever, founder, CineKink Film Festival
Panelists:
Zach Clark, Director, Modern Love Is Automatic
Vivian Darkbloom, Director, Indietro
Lynn Comella, Professor, Women’s Studies, UNLV
Alan Levy, Partner, Buckley, Zinober, and Curtis

l-r: Zach Clark, Vivian Darkbloom, Lynn Comella, Lisa Vandever, Alan Levy
The line between art and porn are becoming increasingly blurred. Independent filmmakers are gravitating toward graphic sex [...]

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“Making Magic Happen: The Art of Producing”
March 12, 12:30pm, Austin Convention Center
Moderator:
Christy Lemire, Associated Press
Panelists:
Barry Mendel, producer, Barry Mendel Productions
Christine Vachon, Killer Films
Monnie Willis, The Jacobson Company
Jason Blum, Roadhouse Productions

“Making Magic Happen: The Art of Producing” focused on the ever-changing landscape of producing, and how the options for a producer are evolving.
The panel began with [...]

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