The Film Panel Notetaker

Next month, fellow notetaker Rebecca Banach and I will be coming to Austin for this year’s SXSW Film Festival. We will be arriving on Friday, March 9th, and leaving on Wednesday evening, March 14th. We are currently searching for accommodations, and would prefer a location that’s within three miles of Austin Convention Center [...]

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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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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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To launch The Film Panel Notetaker into a new year, we have opened a fundraiser on Kickstarter.com, which we hope you will visit and contribute to help us expand and grow our efforts to continue to bring you helpful notes and information from more film festivals and events in 2010. Our fundraiser is now live [...]

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Hello Everyone,
I covered the 2009 SXSW and Woodstock Film Festivals for The Film Panel Notetaker.
On Monday, I published an interview I did with Andrew Bujalski in The Ithaca Journal’s blogs section, in preparation for a screening of Beeswax at Cornell Cinema this weekend.
To read the interview, just click on the picture of Andrew.
Thanks,Erin Scherer

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Hello Everyone,

I covered the 2009 South By Southwest Film Festival as well as this year’s Rochester High Falls International Film Festival for TFPN. Recently, I submitted an idea for a panel to SXSW for the 2010 festival titled “Don’t Quit Your Day Job”.
My panel will cover how Filmmakers balance their film making with their [...]

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One-on-One Q&A with Ry Russo-Young,Writer-Director, You Wont Miss MeInterview by Erin Scherer

Ry Russo-Young’s latest film, You Wont Miss Me, premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. The film stars Stella Schnabel, who collaborated with Russo-Young on the story. You Wont Miss Me follows Shelly Brown, a 23 year old recently released from a [...]

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‘Mumblecore’ Erin’s ‘Are You From Bingo?’ DocumentaryNow Open For Fundraising on IndieGoGo

ITHACA, NEW YORK, November 17, 2008 – Erin Scherer, the ‘Mumblecore Saved My Life’ and HOWL (For Lindsay Lohan) YouTube sensation, is preparing to release on DVD her first feature-length documentary Are You From Bingo?, a look inside the history of Binghamton, New York, [...]

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