The Film Panel Notetaker

New York Loves Film
April 30, 2011 @ 12:30pm, Curtis Theatre, George Eastman House
Rochester, New York
Moderator:
Mark Costello, Attorney, Boylan Brown

Panelists:
Jerry Stoeffhaas, Deputy Director, New York State Governor’s Office for Motion Picture & Television Development
Nora Brown, Deputy Director, Rochester/Finger Lakes Film & Video Office
Tim Clark, Film Commissioner, Buffalo/Niagara Region
Funded by the New York [...]

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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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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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DIY Days New York
March 5, 2011
Notes by Brian Geldin
DIY Days returned to New York where I attended another full day of discussions and workshops at the New School organized by WorkBook Project founder and Do-it-Yourself filmmaker and guru Lance Weiler. Below are my raw notes I typed on my laptop that I hope can be [...]

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The Tillman Story
Q&A with Director Amir Bar-Lev
Stranger Than Fiction
December 20, 2010
IFC Center
New York, NY
The Film Panel Notetaker is no stranger to Stranger Than Fiction, but for the first time we co-presented an evening at the invitation of STF founder Thom Powers on the occasion of our 5th anniversary, and what a powerful film [...]

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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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One-on-One Q&A with Amir Bar-Lev – Director, The Tillman Story

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. The Tillman Story will be available on DVD beginning February 1 (Pre-Order here), but if you can’t wait, or already saw the [...]

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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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In case you were unable to make it to this year’s Woodstock Film Festival and missed the Environmentally Speaking: Improving Our Planet with the Power of Film panel discussion that I co-programmed, there is now video from the panel posted on YouTube here, and you can also watch an interview with one of our panelists, [...]

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