The Film Panel Notetaker

NewFestInterview with James Pellerito
Co-Writer/Director/DP/Editor/Producer of the documentary Pop Star on IceJune 11, 2009
By Kelly Deegan

Kelly Deegan interviews James Pellerito. Photo by Brian Geldin.

We had a few more questions after NewFest’s closing night Q&A with the cast and crew of the very entertaining documentary Pop Star on Ice. Luckily, filmmaker James Pellerito was kind enough to [...]

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One-on-One Q&AJacqui Morris, Director – Mr. RightNewFest Opening Night Film

The 2009 rendition of NewFest, the New York LGBT Film Festival, kicked off Thursday night at the SVA Theatre with Jacqui Morris’s British rom-com Mr. Right.
NewFest Acting Director Leslie Klainberg took a moment before the film began to thank the people and sponsors who’ve contributed and [...]

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One on One Q&A with Kris SwanbergDirector/Co-Writer,It was great, but I was ready to come homeInterview by Erin Scherer

Kris Swanberg (left) with Jade Healyin It was great, but I was ready to come home

Kris Swanberg’s directorial debut, It was great, but I was ready to come home debuted at the 2009 SXSW Film Festival to [...]

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One-on-One Q&A
Daryl Wein, Director/Co-Writer/Producer/Actor
Breaking Upwards
In anticipation for his narrative feature directorial debut, Breaking Upwards, at SXSW this weekend, Daryl Wein participated in a One-on-One Q&A with The Film Panel Notetaker. Wein’s documentary Sex Positive debuted at last year’s SXSW.

Q: Can you tell me a little about Breaking Upwards, how it all began? What’s the story [...]

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One-on-One Q&A with Ry Russo-Young,Writer-Director, You Wont Miss MeInterview by Erin Scherer

Ry Russo-Young’s latest film, You Wont Miss Me, premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. The film stars Stella Schnabel, who collaborated with Russo-Young on the story. You Wont Miss Me follows Shelly Brown, a 23 year old recently released from a [...]

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One-on-One Q&A with Hugo Perez
Director/Producer, Neither Memory Nor Magic

Hugo Perez

I recently sat down with filmmaker Hugo Perez to discuss his documentary feature film debut, Neither Memory Nor Magic, in preparation for its New York premiere during the 2009 MoMA Documentary Fortnight on Feb. 22. Neither Memory Nor Magic beautifully and hauntingly tells the story of [...]

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The Film Panel Notetaker’s
One-on-One Q&A with…Tambay A. Obenson
Director, Beautiful Things and Blogger, The Obenson Report

As previously reported, I met filmmaker and blogger Tambay A. Obenson a few weekends back when Sujewa Ekanayake was in town shooting interviews for his upcoming documentary, The Indie Film Bloggers: A Portrait of a Community. Here is my [...]

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The Film Panel Notetaker’s One-on-One Q&A with…

Dawn Scibilia – Director, Producer, DP, Editor&Alan Cooke – Producer, Writer, Narrator

Over the weekend, I got a pleasant surprise when Alan Cooke sent me an instant chat message from Ireland on Facebook. He asked me if I had seen the documentary he produced, wrote, and narrated called Home. [...]

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In May, I met Lucia Gajá at the Tribeca Film Festival during a press meet and greet at the filmmaker lounge. She told me about her documentary My Life Inside, about a woman from Mexico named Rosa who was sentenced to what basically equates to life in prison on the counts of homicide and injury [...]

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One-on-One Q&A:WhirlwindDirector Richard LeMay & Screenwriter Jason Brown
WHIRLWIND TRAILER

In advance of the New York Premiere of Whirlwind at NewFest: The 20th Anniversary New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Film Festival, I spoke with the film’s director Richard LeMay and screenwriter Jason Brown for a One-on-One (or in this case one-on-two) Q&A. Whirlwind is a [...]

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