The Film Panel Notetaker

Detropia, When Bubbles Burst and Searching for Sugarman
AFI Discovery Channel Silverdocs
June 22, 2012
Silver Spring, Maryland
Notes by Erin Essenmacher

One of the magical things for me about art in general, and documentary film in particular, is the ability to make connections, to reveal patterns in seemingly disparate parts of life.

I was struck again by this when I [...]

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“POV’s 25th Anniversary: A Look Back”
AFI Discovery Channel Silverdocs
June 22, 2012
Silver Spring, Maryland
Notes by Erin Essenmacher
Silverdocs is not just about the films (although I do so love that part!)  What makes it really stand out among other docs fests is the conference that runs concurrently, chalk full of insightful panelists on a range of topics [...]

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Martin Scorsese Presents “The Age of Innocence”
See It Big
Museum of the Moving Image
June 21, 2012
Astoria, NY
Notes by Brian Geldin

The Museum of the Moving Image’s See It Big series, curated in collaboration with Reverse Shot editors Michael Koresky and Jeff Reichert (Remote Area Medical), presented Thursday night, a 35mm print of Academy Award-winning auteur Martin Scorsese’s 1993 [...]

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“Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey”
AFI Discovery Channel Silverdocs
June 18, 2012
Silver Spring, Maryland
Notes by Erin Essenmacher

Silverdocs kicked off its 10th annual film festival Monday night with a special screening of Ramona Diaz’s “Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey.”
As festival director Skye Sitney said when introducing the film, it’s one of those stories that “if it were a [...]

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One-on-Two Q&A with Jae-Ho Chang and Tara Autovino
Co-Directors, “Ultimate Christian Wrestling”
World Premiere at Korean American Film Festival New York
Guest Post by John DeCarli, Editor of FilmCapsule.com

One wrestler picks up another by his spandex shorts, muscles bulging as he tosses him across the ring. Another dives from the top of the post. Kicks and clotheslines are exchanged [...]

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