The Film Panel Notetaker

One-on-One Q&A with Bradley Glenn
Director, Battle of the Bozos
By Brian Geldin

“The Battle of the Bozos” Trailer from Bradley Glenn on Vimeo.
On a beautiful sunny day in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, I met up with filmmaker Bradley Glenn for a One-on-One Q&A during the first annual Docnic (short for Documentary Picnic and organized by Lesli Klainberg). Glenn [...]

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One-on-One Q and A with Kimberly Reed – Director, “Prodigal Sons”
Interview by Brian Geldin
Opens February 26 at Cinema Village in New York via First Run Features

“Prodigal Sons” is a compelling family portrait and personal documentary told from the point of view of its director, Kimberly Reed, a transgendered woman who works as magazine editor in [...]

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One-on-One Q&A
Daryl Wein, Director/Co-Writer/Producer/Actor
Breaking Upwards
In anticipation for his narrative feature directorial debut, Breaking Upwards, at SXSW this weekend, Daryl Wein participated in a One-on-One Q&A with The Film Panel Notetaker. Wein’s documentary Sex Positive debuted at last year’s SXSW.

Q: Can you tell me a little about Breaking Upwards, how it all began? What’s the story [...]

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One-on-One Q&A with Hugo Perez
Director/Producer, Neither Memory Nor Magic

Hugo Perez

I recently sat down with filmmaker Hugo Perez to discuss his documentary feature film debut, Neither Memory Nor Magic, in preparation for its New York premiere during the 2009 MoMA Documentary Fortnight on Feb. 22. Neither Memory Nor Magic beautifully and hauntingly tells the story of [...]

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The Film Panel Notetaker’s
One-on-One Q&A with…Tambay A. Obenson
Director, Beautiful Things and Blogger, The Obenson Report

As previously reported, I met filmmaker and blogger Tambay A. Obenson a few weekends back when Sujewa Ekanayake was in town shooting interviews for his upcoming documentary, The Indie Film Bloggers: A Portrait of a Community. Here is my [...]

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The Film Panel Notetaker’s One-on-One Q&A with…

Dawn Scibilia – Director, Producer, DP, Editor&Alan Cooke – Producer, Writer, Narrator

Over the weekend, I got a pleasant surprise when Alan Cooke sent me an instant chat message from Ireland on Facebook. He asked me if I had seen the documentary he produced, wrote, and narrated called Home. [...]

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In May, I met Lucia Gajá at the Tribeca Film Festival during a press meet and greet at the filmmaker lounge. She told me about her documentary My Life Inside, about a woman from Mexico named Rosa who was sentenced to what basically equates to life in prison on the counts of homicide and injury [...]

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One-on-One Q&A: Director/Screenwriter, Phillip Van

A scene from Phillip Van’s She Stares Longingly At What She Has Lost.
She Stares Longingly At What She Has Lost is the title of Phillip Van’s segment of Little Minx, a new web film series produced by Rhea Scott and based on the French parlor game of the same name where [...]

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One-on-One Q&A:
Sue WilliamsDirector, Young & Restless in China

Young & Restless in China, a new documentary from director Sue Williams and her company Ambrica Productions, opens April 11 for a week-long stint at New York’s Cinema Village as well as at Laemmle Theatres – Grande 4 in Los Angeles. The film “follows the lives of [...]

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One-on-One Q&A:Paul KrikWriter/Director, Able Danger

Paul Krik’s Able Danger, which premiered at the 2008 International Film Festival Rotterdam, is a fast-paced, very good-looking, modern-day independent film noir about a conspiracy theorist/Brooklyn bookstore café owner who unassumingly gets in the middle of a 9/11 cover up when he helps a femme fatal keep a secret that leads [...]

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