The Film Panel Notetaker

One-on-One Q&A with Jonathan Goodman Levitt, Director of FOLLOW THE LEADER
By Brian Geldin

Since less than a week ago, I’ve been hard at work helping to promote a Kickstarter campaign, which ends on Thursday, for filmmaker Jonathan Goodman Levitt’s documentary, FOLLOW THE LEADER, a real-life coming-of-age story of three traditional American boys with Presidential dreams. A [...]

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Hard to believe 2011 is almost over already. It’s been another great year of notes from film panels and filmmaker Q&As, but I have to give most of the credit to my contributing notetakers Erin Scherer, Liz Nord, Erin Essenmacher, and Rebecca Banach, all of whom have an incredible knack for transforming source discussion into compelling summations and analysis. We also had the great privilege to be chosen by The Christian Science Monitor as a blog partners in its Culture Cafe.

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The Film Panel Notetaker’s 5th Anniversary Message
Since 2005, the world of online social media has grown by leaps and bounds. Of course, the Internet as we know it had been around for at least a dozen years or more before 2005, but online social media was still in its infancy. Myspace was all the rage [...]

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To commemorate its 5th Anniversary, The Film Panel Notetaker will co-present Amir Bar-Lev’s, The Tillman Story at Stranger Than Fiction at IFC Center on Monday, Dec. 20 at 8:00 P.M. A Q&A with Bar-Lev will follow the screening. To read more about the screening and to purchase tickets, visit http://stfdocs.com/films/the_tillman_story/.

About The Tillman Story:
When Pat Tillman [...]

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The  Woodstock Film Festival, one of my very favorites, announced today their full lineup of nearly 150 fiercely independent films, panels, performances and special events, kicking-off Wednesday, September 29 through Sunday, October 3.
I am particularly honored to have worked with Woodstock Film Festival Co-Founder and Executive Director Meira Blaustein in co-programming what we hope will [...]

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IFP announced some very cool news today about their latest project lab for distribution. Jon Reiss, whom Erin Scherer interviewed here on The Film Panel Notetaker a few weeks back, is one of the two main collaborators on IFP’s 2010 Distribution Lab, along with Ted Hope. Read all about it in the IFP press release below.
For Immediate Release [...]

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This Saturday at 8pm, UnionDocs will present Inductive Thread, a shorts program panel discussion as part of MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight.

Produced by the Brooklyn nonprofit UnionDocs, this two-part program combines short works that engage multiple subjects and diverse aesthetic approaches to documentary arts. The first part touches on the history of the organization, its rotating body [...]

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In conjunction with First Run Features’ January 8, 2010 theatrical release at New York’s Cinema Village of “Waiting for Armageddon,” a documentary by award-winning filmmakers, David Heilbroner, Kate Davis and Franco Sacchi, a special interfaith round table discussion will be held on January 7 from 6:30pm-8:00pm at the Puck Building’s Rudin Auditorium (295 Lafayette Street). [...]

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If you’re in New York on January 8th and 9th and you haven’t yet seen any of the feature documentaries on the Academy Award® Shortlist, you will have the chance to see six of them when “Tribeca Cinemas Presents: Docs on the Shortlist” hosted by Tribeca Film Institute’s Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund. Of the six [...]

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I wanted to alert you to two new documentaries that will be screening at Rooftop Films in September during IFP’s Independent Film Week in New York. First on Sept. 12 is David Teague’s Intifada NYC, and second on Sept. 19 is Cambria Matlow’s and Morgan Robinson’s Burning in the Sun. I have been eagerly awaiting [...]

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