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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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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A few weeks back, I attended a work-in-progress documentary screening of Augusta Palmer’s The Hand of Fatima at DocuClub that Pamela Cohn moderated. I was very honored when DocuClub’s Felix Endara asked me to moderate the upcoming DocuClub on Feb. 25 at The Tank (354 West 45th Street) in New York.
The film will be Our [...]

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