The Film Panel Notetaker

By Liz Nord / Twitter @lizfilm
On the eve of Academy Awards announcements, the documentary community was out in full force celebrating its own at the 6th Annual Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens. And what a community it was! From notable presenters such as Michael [...]

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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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Putty Hill Q&A
Opening Night at Cinema Village in New York
February 18, 2011
By Brian Geldin
Putty Hill, directed by Matt Porterfield and filmed in his hometown of Baltimore, opened Friday in New York at Cinema Village. The film recently won the first ever Cinema Eye Honors Heterodox Award, bestowed to a film that imaginatively incorporates nonfiction strategies, [...]

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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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Round 2 of the Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking, presented by Indiepix and supporting sponsor ArtsEngine (home of DocuClub), saw its festivities move from last year’s location of the IFC Center to this year’s at TheTimesCenter. In the tradition of last year’s surprise roundtable discussion in the middle of the awards ceremony, another stellar [...]

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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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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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Stranger Than Fiction’s Thom Powers offers his Top 10 Favorite Documentary Events in 2008 over at the STF Blog. Thom’s #2 (March: Cinema Eye Honors) is similarily my #2 from last week’s Top 10 Favorite Panels and Q&As of 2008.
As a tribute to Stranger Than Fiction, here’s my notes from the STFs I attended in [...]

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2008 saw the birth of the One-on-One Q&A, where I interviewed a number of filmmakers including Lucia Small and Ed Pincus (The Axe in the Attic), Leah Meyerhoff (Unicorns), Paul Krik (Able Danger), Fritz Donnelly (To the Hills 2), Phillip Van (Come Wander With Me), Sue Williams (Young & Restless in China), Daniel Robin (My [...]

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Here’s some news from the 2008 AFI Silverdocs Film Festival. On Friday, a reception was held to announce the 2nd Annual Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking that will take place in March 2009. (The Film Panel Notetaker attended the very first Cinema Eye Honors this past March.) Friday’s announcement was made by Cinema Eye [...]

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