The Film Panel Notetaker

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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Hope everyone is having a fantastic summer. You may have noticed a lull in posts since last month. The Film Panel Notetaker is on a semi-hiatus for the summer, though you may be seeing a post or two here and there. This morning, I received word that Anne Thompson’s Thompson on Hollywood blog will now [...]

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Congrats to indieWIRE, which just got snagged up by SnagFilms, a new social networking website that offers free instant streaming and viral sharing of hundreds of documentary films. indieWIRE will provide archival and news content for SnagFilms and the company’s virtual movie theater widgets, including breaking news from the indie sector, comprehensive film reviews and [...]

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Here’s something I will be unable to attend, but definitely wanted to let you all know about. Tonight, indieWIRE presents a discussion with filmmaker David Gordon Green (George Washington, All the Real Girls, Undertow and the upcoming Pineapple Express) whose latest feature film Snow Angels opens in limited theatrical release on Friday. Along with Green, [...]

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The State of Independents – September 19, 2007
Moderator:(EH) Eugene Hernandez, indieWIRE
Panelists:(BT) Bill Thompson, Head of Distribution, Picturehouse(MK) Michael Kang, West 32nd(PG) Peter Goldwyn, Samuel Goldwyn Films(CB) Charles Burnett, Director, Killer of Sheep(TQ) Tom Quinn, Head of Acquisitions, Magnolia Pictures
Synopsis:How has independent film changed in the last five years? Where are we headed and how can [...]

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DIY filmmaker Sujewa Ekanayake (Date Number One), who was in town from DC, and I headed over to the Apple Store in Soho Thursday night where we met up with A.M. Peters (NO Cross, NO Crown) for indieWIRE’s “An Evening with Generation DIY.” After the panel discussion, we met up with iW and other film [...]

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***If anyone attended this event and would like to contribute notes I may have missed since I was a few minutes late arriving due to the fact that I had been attending an IFP Industry Connect panel discussion on Producing which overlapped the Julie Delpy discussion, please submit your notes in the ‘comments’ section. – [...]

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