The Film Panel Notetaker

The New York Film Festival is quickly approaching, and the Film Society of Lincoln Center has sent me their announcement on all the various HBO Films Dialogues, panel discussions and other special screening events for its 46th annual festival. Last year, the NYFF made it into The Film Panel Notetaker’s top 10 panels of 2007. [...]

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I know we still have about a month and a half of summer left, but I was reminded today when I received the press release for the 46th New York Film Festival line-up that fall will soon be upon us, and I for one cannot wait! It’s no secret that fall is The Film Panel [...]

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New Directors/New FilmsMy Olympic SummerWalter Reade Theater – New York, NYMarch 30, 2008
Daniel Robin’s My Olympic Summer, winner of the Short Filmmaking Award at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, played last Sunday at the Walter Reade Theater during New Directors/New Films, a joint program between the Department of Film at MoMA and the Film Society [...]

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New Directors/New FilmsBallastWalter Reade Theater – New York, NYMarch 30, 2008
On Sunday during New Directors/New Films, a joint program between the Department of Film at MoMA and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Lance Hammer took questions from the audience following his narrative feature film Ballast, about the effects of a suicide on a family [...]

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New Directors/New FilmsHBO Films Roundtable
New Directors and BeyondWalter Reade Theater – New York, NYMarch 30, 2008

New Directors & Beyond Panel at ND/NF
Sunday during New Directors/New Films (ND/NF), an HBO Films Roundtable entitled New Directors and Beyond took place with ND/NF veteran filmmakers who talked about the beginning of their careers, where they are now, and [...]

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New Directors/New FilmsFrozen RiverMoMA – New York, NYMarch 26, 2008

Frozen River Director/Writer Courtney Hunt and Actress Melissa Leo
At the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City Wednesday night, the Sundance Dramatic Grand Jury Prize-Winning Frozen River opened the New Directors/New Films series, a joint program between the Department of Film at MoMA and [...]

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