The Film Panel Notetaker

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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***FEBRUARY 2, 2010 UPDATE: As of this morning, Cinema Eye Winners “Burma VJ,” “The Cove,” and “Food, Inc” received Academy Award nominations for Best Documentary Feature. Congratulations and good luck to all!

(Notes by Brian Geldin)

The stellar third annual Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking, produced by founding sponsor Indiepix, came back to the [...]

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Documentaries: Then and NowOctober 4th, 2009, @ 10amUtopia Studios, Bearsville, New York

L-R: Rachel Grady, Molly Thompson, Barbara Kopple, Leon Gast, and Emily KunstlerNot Pictured: AJ Schnack
Moderator:Molly Thompson, VP, A&E IndieFilms
Panelists:AJ Schnack, Director, ConventionRachel Grady, Director, Jesus CampBarbara Kopple, Director, Woodstock: Now and ThenLeon Gast, Director, When We Were KingsEmily Kunstler, Director, William Kunstler: Disturbing the [...]

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A sold-out crowd attended last night’s Cinema Eye Honors at TheTimesCenter in New York, hosted by co-chairs Thom Powers and AJ Schnack, who made a grand entrance sporting Mardi Gras regalia, as seen in Margaret Brown’s The Order of Myths. Stay tuned for my notes from the mid-awards ceremony roundtable discussion moderated by Powers that [...]

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‘Cinema Eye’ Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking Nominations Announced
More news on the 2008 Awards for Excellence in Nonfiction Filmmaking Announced, now called the ‘Cinema Eye’ Awards (named after the revolutionary group of young filmmakers led by pioneering documentarian Dziga Vertov). Nominations were announced yesterday during the Sundance Film Festival. Congratulations to all the nominees. Into Great [...]

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