The Film Panel Notetaker

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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I wanted to alert you to two new documentaries that will be screening at Rooftop Films in September during IFP’s Independent Film Week in New York. First on Sept. 12 is David Teague’s Intifada NYC, and second on Sept. 19 is Cambria Matlow’s and Morgan Robinson’s Burning in the Sun. I have been eagerly awaiting [...]

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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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Rooftop Films
Sneak Preview Screening at Open Road RooftopOctober CountryNew York, NYSept. 18, 2008

(October Country directors Michael Palmieri & Donal Mosher and Rooftop Films’ Mark Elijah Rosenberg at after party held at Fontana’s) Photo by Brian Geldin
Thursday night in New York, I attended the previously announced sneak preview screening of Michael Palmieri’s and Donal Mosher’s [...]

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Latest news from Rooftop Films …
Thursday, September 18, 2008October Country (Michael Palmieri & Donal Mosher Mohawk Valley, NY 1:20:00) Work-In-Progress Sneak Preview
A beautifully filmed portrait of an American family struggling for stability while haunted by the ghosts of war, teen pregnancy, foster care and child abuse. This vibrant and intimate documentary examines the [...]

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Here’s the latest news from Rooftop Films as sent to me by Mark Elijah Rosenberg, who I saw last weekend at Rooftop’s screening of Song Sung Blue (which I missed at Silverdocs) and Neil Diamond karaoke on Roosevelt Island in New York.

Here’s a picture I took from my cell phone (which didn’t come out [...]

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On Thursday, June 12 at 8pm, Rooftop Films will present short films about big adventures, including Benh Zeitlin’s award-winning post-Katrina shipwreck epic Glory At Sea co-funded by the Rooftop Filmmakers’ Fund. I can tell you that Glory At Sea is a truly amazing film. I saw it recently at a fundraiser held at Lincoln Center’s [...]

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Glory at SeaFundraiser ScreeningWalter Reade TheaterNew York, NYApril 26, 2008
Court 13 International and Rooftop Films presented a fundraiser screening to a sold-out audience of Benh Zeitlin’s short film Glory at Sea Saturday night at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater. On their way to Austin, TX, from New Orleans, LA, last month [...]

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