The Film Panel Notetaker

***FEBRUARY 2, 2010 UPDATE: As of this morning, Cinema Eye Winners “Burma VJ,” “The Cove,” and “Food, Inc” received Academy Award nominations for Best Documentary Feature. Congratulations and good luck to all!

(Notes by Brian Geldin)

The stellar third annual Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking, produced by founding sponsor Indiepix, came back to the [...]

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Rooftop Films “Panorama” returns this year for a special four-day long mini festival within the 2009 Summer Series that is meant to demonstrate what makes Rooftop Films the truly unique, community-based organization that it is. And on Saturday, June 13 (see details below), in conjunction with IndiePix and Shooting People, Rooftop Films will host panel [...]

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My mom and I drove from my hometown of Grand Island, New York (an actual Island between Buffalo and Niagara Falls), to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on Friday to attend HotDocs (my first trip back since 2006). At the end of our day, I stopped at a gas station in downtown Toronto to ask for directions [...]

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Round 2 of the Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking, presented by Indiepix and supporting sponsor ArtsEngine (home of DocuClub), saw its festivities move from last year’s location of the IFC Center to this year’s at TheTimesCenter. In the tradition of last year’s surprise roundtable discussion in the middle of the awards ceremony, another stellar [...]

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A sold-out crowd attended last night’s Cinema Eye Honors at TheTimesCenter in New York, hosted by co-chairs Thom Powers and AJ Schnack, who made a grand entrance sporting Mardi Gras regalia, as seen in Margaret Brown’s The Order of Myths. Stay tuned for my notes from the mid-awards ceremony roundtable discussion moderated by Powers that [...]

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Stranger Than FictionThe Axe in the AtticQ&A with directors Lucia Small and Ed PincusIFC CenterNew York, NYFebruary 10, 2009

(A sold-out crowd enjoys the Q&A with Lucia Small & Ed Pincus moderated by Thom Powers. Photo by A.M. Peters.)

Last winter, I conducted a One-on-One Q&A with filmmakers Ed Pincus and Lucia Small before their documentary, The [...]

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IndiePix has hired Ryan Harrington to head up Indiepix Studios, the world’s first virtual studio for independent filmmakers that provides a major new production and distribution outlet. Harrington will be responsible for overseeing all of the filmmaker relations as well as managing the productions which IndiePix has invested in – by taking on executive [...]

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Here’s some news from the 2008 AFI Silverdocs Film Festival. On Friday, a reception was held to announce the 2nd Annual Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking that will take place in March 2009. (The Film Panel Notetaker attended the very first Cinema Eye Honors this past March.) Friday’s announcement was made by Cinema Eye [...]

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Indiepix President Bob Alexander weighs in on the shake up of the indpendent film industry over the past ten weeks from the financial crisis faced by ThinkFilm to the sale of Sundance Channel to IFC and the folding of Warner Independent and Picturehouse.
Alexander explains why he feels this restructuring is actually a positive move for [...]

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Last night I attended the inaugural Cinema Eye Honors where awards were handed out for outstanding achievement in nonfiction filmmaking. You can find the complete list of winners here. To my surprise and delight, halfway through the ceremony, co-chair Thom Powers gathered to the stage four directors whose films were nominated for awards that night—Alex [...]

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