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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Discussion with Director Julie Taymor from 360/365
Rochester, NY
4/30/2011
Notes by Rebecca Banach
Director Julie Taymor has never followed the rules. In a discussion held at Rochester’s annual 360/365 film festival moderated by local film critic Jack Garner, Taymor said she “always jumped off the cliff instead of just standing on the cliff.” Her latest film, William Shakespeare’s [...]

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New York Loves Film
April 30, 2011 @ 12:30pm, Curtis Theatre, George Eastman House
Rochester, New York
Moderator:
Mark Costello, Attorney, Boylan Brown

Panelists:
Jerry Stoeffhaas, Deputy Director, New York State Governor’s Office for Motion Picture & Television Development
Nora Brown, Deputy Director, Rochester/Finger Lakes Film & Video Office
Tim Clark, Film Commissioner, Buffalo/Niagara Region
Funded by the New York [...]

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The Austin Connection
Saturday, May 8 2010 @ 2:15pm, Curtis Theatre, George Eastman House

(L to R: Jim Healy, David Lowery, Bryan Poyser, Alex Karpovsky)
Moderator: Jim Healy, Assistant Curator, George Eastman House
With: David Lowery, Director, St. Nick
Bryan Poyser, Director, Lovers of Hate
Alex Karpovsky, Director, Trust Us, This Is All Made Up
The Austin Connection followed a [...]

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Sisyphus Reconsidered: The Screenwriter’s Panel
Film 360 | 365
Saturday May 8, 2010 @ 11:30 am
Curtis Theatre, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York.

L-R: Gordy Hoffman, Paul Root, Drew Yanno, Nicholas DiBella
Moderator:
Stan Main, founder, Rochester Movie Makers

With:
Gordy Hoffman, writer, Love, Liza; founder of the Bluecat Screenplay Competition
Paul Root, co-writer, Cherry Crush; author, Moving Pictures
Drew Yanno, author, [...]

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Presentation of the Honorary Scholar Award to James Ivory
May 5, 2010 @ 6:30pm
George Eastman House, Rochester, New York

With:
James Ivory, Director, City of Your Final Destination
Jim Healy, Assistant Curator, George Eastman House
Director James Ivory was the center of the opening night festivities to Rochester’s 360 | 365 Festival. Ivory was being awarded the George Eastman [...]

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