The Film Panel Notetaker

The Crowdstarter Revolution: How to Build an Audience
Master class presentation at IFP’s Independent Film Week on 9/21/11
Notes by Erin Essenmacher

“Get Over Yourself.”
That’s how Paola Freccero from Crowdstarter opened her Master Class presentation on how to build an audience at this year’s IFP Independent Film Week filmmaker conference.

“I’m going to be coming back to that [...]

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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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Telling Their Own Stories: The Individual as Documentarian and The Impact of User-Generated Media
(Preceded by Screening of Jennifer Arnold’s A Small Act)
Envision: Addressing Global Issues Through Documentaries
A Joint Program of IFP and the United Nations’ Department of Public Information
TheTimesCenter
New York, NY
July 10, 2010
After a lunch break following the “Education Obstacles and Solutions in Africa – [...]

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Education Obstacles and Solutions in Africa
Envision: Addressing Global Issues Through Documentaries
A Joint Program of IFP and the United Nations’ Department of Public Information
TheTimesCenter
New York, NY
July 10, 2010
By Erin Essenmacher
This panel directly followed the screening of Jennifer Arnold’s documentary  A Small Act.  The film follows the parallel stories of Chris Mburu, a UN worker from Kenya and Hilde [...]

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Keynote Speech: Harry Belafonte
Envision: Addressing Global Issues Through Documentaries
A Joint Program of IFP and the United Nations’ Department of Public Information
TheTimesCenter
New York, NY
July 10, 2010
By Brian Geldin

Photo by Erin Essemmacher.
The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) and the United Nations Department of Public Information (UN DPI) presented its second annual “Envision: Addressing Global Issues through Documentaries” forum [...]

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Two years ago, I visited the United Nations building for the very first time for an event to benefit renewable energy and awareness of climate change where I didn’t get to meet Leonardo DiCaprio.  My friends at IFP have alerted me to their event in which they’ve hooked up with the UN called ENVISION: Addressing [...]

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IFP announced some very cool news today about their latest project lab for distribution. Jon Reiss, whom Erin Scherer interviewed here on The Film Panel Notetaker a few weeks back, is one of the two main collaborators on IFP’s 2010 Distribution Lab, along with Ted Hope. Read all about it in the IFP press release below.
For Immediate Release [...]

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Posted by Liz Nord | Twitter: @lizfilm
IFP’s 2010 Script to Screen Conference
Day #2, Sunday, March 21
92Y Tribeca, New York, NY
The Chief Notetaker and I spent a gorgeous, sunny day inside a windowless theatre for IFP’s Script to Screen conference, and it was all worth it for one hour spent with the charming Terry George. The [...]

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Notes from IFP’s Independent Filmmaker Conference 2009Fashion Institute of TechnologyNew York, NY
IFP’s annual Independent Filmmaker Conference returned this year to New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology, Sept. 19-23. I attended panels on the first two days on Saturday, Sept. 19, and Sunday, Sept. 20. Instead of my mostly usual highlights from the transcripts of [...]

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IFP’s Script to Screen Conference
Tips from the Pros: Inside the Development ProcessMarch 7, 2009New York, NY
Producer Mike Ryan lead another producer, a screenwriter (the very jovial and enthusiastic Kelly Masterson) and a couple of development executives in the discussion about what else, but development, the process of reading and evaluating scripts that may or [...]

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