The Film Panel Notetaker

White Reindeer Premiere Q&A @ SXSW Film Festival
Screening Time:4:15 PM, Alamo Ritz Theater
Cast & Crew of White Reindeer
Q&A Moderator:Chad Hartigan, Director, This Is Martin Bonner
With:Zach Clark, Director, White ReindeerAnna Margaret Hollyman, Actress, White Reindeer
White Reindeer tells the story of Real Estate agent Suzanne (Anna Margaret Hollyman), who seems to have everything going for her. [...]

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Shooting & Editing the Non-Scripted FeatureMarch 11, 2012 at 5:00 p.m., Austin Convention Center

Moderator:Barry Jenkins, Director, Medicine for Melancholy

Panelists:Amy Seimetz, Director, Sun Don’t Shine; Producer, Silver BulletsBen Kasulke, Director of Photography, Humpday, The Catechism CataclysmNat Sanders, Editor, Humpday, Medicine for Melancholy
A couple of years ago, Michael Tully posted The Take-Back Manifesto to his then-blog, “Boredom [...]

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A Conversation with Amy Seimetz, Kentucker Audley, and Kate Lyn SheilDirector and Stars of Sun Don’t ShineInterview by Erin Scherer

Full Disclosure: The author of this interview gave money to the film’s production, and as such, her name appears in the credits. This interview was conducted shortly after the March 11th screening of the film.

Erin [...]

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One-On-One Q&A with Lena Dunham
Writer/Director, Tiny Furniture

Interview by Erin Scherer
This interview has been a long time coming. I’ve been wanting to interview Lena since I met her at SXSW 2009, when her first feature, Creative Nonfiction, played at the festival. We had initially tried to do the interview this past March, while she [...]

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One on One Q&A with Kris SwanbergDirector/Co-Writer,It was great, but I was ready to come homeInterview by Erin Scherer

Kris Swanberg (left) with Jade Healyin It was great, but I was ready to come home

Kris Swanberg’s directorial debut, It was great, but I was ready to come home debuted at the 2009 SXSW Film Festival to [...]

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One-on-One Q&A with Ry Russo-Young,Writer-Director, You Wont Miss MeInterview by Erin Scherer

Ry Russo-Young’s latest film, You Wont Miss Me, premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. The film stars Stella Schnabel, who collaborated with Russo-Young on the story. You Wont Miss Me follows Shelly Brown, a 23 year old recently released from a [...]

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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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Wednesday night, I met up with DIY filmmaker Sujewa Ekanayake (Date Number One), who came in from DC, and documentary filmmaker Liz Nord (Jericho’s Echo: Punk Rock in the Holy Land) where we saw the premier of Joe Swanberg’s new film Hannah Takes the Stairs at the IFC Center in New York. The film has [...]

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