The Film Panel Notetaker

Hope everyone is having a fantastic summer. You may have noticed a lull in posts since last month. The Film Panel Notetaker is on a semi-hiatus for the summer, though you may be seeing a post or two here and there. This morning, I received word that Anne Thompson’s Thompson on Hollywood blog will now [...]

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Rooftop Films “Panorama” returns this year for a special four-day long mini festival within the 2009 Summer Series that is meant to demonstrate what makes Rooftop Films the truly unique, community-based organization that it is. And on Saturday, June 13 (see details below), in conjunction with IndiePix and Shooting People, Rooftop Films will host panel [...]

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Slava Rubin sent me excellent news that over $100,000 has been raised by filmmakers on IndieGoGo in its short 15-month history so far. Congratulations to IndieGoGo, and thank you for continuing to include The Film Panel Notetaker as a resource. Read more about the announcement below. Cheers!
Berkeley, California, May 13, 2009 – Indiegogo.com, the most [...]

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Here’s a look at the panels that are planned for the 2009 SXSW Film Conference.

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At Sundance yesterday, nominees for the 2nd annual Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking were announced. The Film Panel Notetaker will bring you coverage of the ceremony taking place March 29 in New York. In the mean time, here’s various reportage from Stranger Than Fiction blog, All These Wonderful Things and indieWIRE from the nominations [...]

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Over the weekend while visiting my family in Maryland, Sujewa Ekanayake and I met up with Erica Ginsberg, Executive Director of Docs in Progress, at the not-for-profit organization’s new “Documentary House” in Silver Spring, Maryland, just a few short blocks away from the AFI Silver Theater, home of Silverdocs. Erica told us about the open [...]

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Carnivalesque Films announced yesterday that it’s releasing Tara Wray’s personal documentary Manhattan, Kansas, on November 18. I watched the film this past weekend with my friend Sarah. We both found it to be very emotional, gritty, perplexing, and inspiring. Sarah plans to write a full review on The Write Bunch soon. In the mean time, [...]

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Tuesday night, I attended the launch party for the 2008 Woodstock Film Festival at Libation on the Lower East Side in Manhattan. I saw a lot of familiar faces of people I met last year at Woodstock, and I met a bunch of new people going this year. It was a really great party. I [...]

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Latest news from Rooftop Films …
Thursday, September 18, 2008October Country (Michael Palmieri & Donal Mosher Mohawk Valley, NY 1:20:00) Work-In-Progress Sneak Preview
A beautifully filmed portrait of an American family struggling for stability while haunted by the ghosts of war, teen pregnancy, foster care and child abuse. This vibrant and intimate documentary examines the [...]

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Be on the look out next week for a slew of notes from the great panel discussions planned at IFP’s 30th Independent Filmmaker Conference being held during Independent Film Week in New York at Chelsea’s Fashion Institute of Technology (F.I.T.) and surrounding venues. This will mark my seventh return to the conference, which was called [...]

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