The Film Panel Notetaker

DocPoint Encounters in NYC
Scandinavia House
New York, NY
June 9, 2011
Notes by Brian Geldin
(June 14 Update) – You can also now read this post on The Christian Science Monitor’s Culture Cafe.
As part of its 10th anniversary, the Helsinki-based DocPoint festival celebrates Finnish documentaries with DocPoint NYC – a program of 47 films hosted by its New York [...]

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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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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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Why Documentaries Matter
92 Y Lectures and Conversations Series
New York, NY
May 26, 2010
Panelists:

Sheila Nevins, President, HBO Documentary Films (MODERATOR)
Al Maysles, legendary documentary filmmaker (Grey Gardens, Lalee’s Kin)
DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, veteran documentary film team (The War Room, Elaine Stritch at Liberty, Don’t Look Back)
Alexandra Pelosi, filmmaker (The Trials of [...]

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One-on-One Q and A with Kimberly Reed – Director, “Prodigal Sons”
Interview by Brian Geldin
Opens February 26 at Cinema Village in New York via First Run Features

“Prodigal Sons” is a compelling family portrait and personal documentary told from the point of view of its director, Kimberly Reed, a transgendered woman who works as magazine editor in [...]

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“Off and Running”
Opening Weekend Theatrical Release
Q&A after 4:05pm screening with Director Nicole Opper and others
January 30, 2010 (Notes by Brian Geldin)
IFC Center
New York, NY

(L to R: Rita Taddonio, Nicole Opper & Sharese Bullock. Photo by Brian Geldin.)
It has been over a year since Nicole Opper’s documentary “Off and Running” was brought to my attention. I [...]

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“Snowblind”
Stranger Than Fiction
January 12, 2010
IFC Center
New York, NY

Stranger Than Fiction’s Thom Powers and “Snowblind” Director Vikram Jayanti. Photo by Brian Geldin.

 Tuesday saw the official opening of the new season of Stranger Than Fiction with an appropriately snowy-titled screening of Vikram Jayanti’s (“Game Over – Kasparov and the Machine”) “Snowblind,” which Thom Powers noted during the post-screening Q&A [...]

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Posted by Liz Nord | Twitter: @lizfilm

“Waiting For Armageddon” Interfaith Roundtable

Berman Jewish Policy Archives at NYU, New York, NY
January 7, 2010
On Thursday, I attended a panel in anticipation of First Run Features’ theatrical release this weekend of “Waiting for Armageddon,” a documentary by award-winning filmmakers, David Heilbroner, Kate Davis and Franco Sacchi. For a little [...]

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Stranger Than Fiction
“Which Way Home”
IFC Center
New York, NY
January 5, 2010

Stranger Than Fiction’s Thom Powers and “Which Way Home Director” Rebecca Cammisa. Photo by Brian Geldin.
***FEBRUARY 2, 2010 UPDATE: As of this morning, “Which Way Home” received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature. Congratulations, Rebecca!

For its Winter 2010 pre-season, Stranger Than Fiction presented the [...]

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In conjunction with First Run Features’ January 8, 2010 theatrical release at New York’s Cinema Village of “Waiting for Armageddon,” a documentary by award-winning filmmakers, David Heilbroner, Kate Davis and Franco Sacchi, a special interfaith round table discussion will be held on January 7 from 6:30pm-8:00pm at the Puck Building’s Rudin Auditorium (295 Lafayette Street). [...]

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