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Indie Film Blogger Road Trip at Anthology this Tuesday

February 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Miscellaneous

If you’re in New York on Tuesday, I hope you’ll head on over to Anthology Film Archives for the World Premiere of Sujewa Ekanayake’s documentary Indie Film Blogger Road Trip, a film that I had the pleasure of being interviewed for last summer.

Opening 9 minutes of Indie Film Blogger Road Trip.

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Check out first nine minutes of “Indie Film Blogger Road Trip”

December 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Miscellaneous

Here’s the first nine minutes of Sujewa Ekanayake’s documentary Indie Film Blogger Road Trip. These segments feature interviews with Anthony Kaufman and Tambay Obenson. The full 95 minute documentary (including my interview) will be available at screenings and on DVD in 2009. Enjoy!

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Docs in Progress Open House

December 1st, 2008 · No Comments · News

Over the weekend while visiting my family in Maryland, Sujewa Ekanayake and I met up with Erica Ginsberg, Executive Director of Docs in Progress, at the not-for-profit organization’s new “Documentary House” in Silver Spring, Maryland, just a few short blocks away from the AFI Silver Theater, home of Silverdocs. Erica told us about the open [...]

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A DIY Filmmaker Sujewa Weekend

November 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Miscellaneous

DIY Filmmaker Sujewa came to town this past weekend. Saturday night, I went with Sujewa and Tambay Obenson of The Obenson Report to see a sneak preview screening of Princeton Holt’s DIY feature Cookies & Cream, which was playing at the Sexy International Film Festival. While I thought the concept of the film was quite [...]

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On the Road With ‘Jack’ Ekanayake

July 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Miscellaneous

Sujewa’s now back in Kensington, MD, after his road trip with girlfriend Amanda to meet and interview indie film bloggers for his documentary The Indie Film Bloggers: A Portrait of a Community. Sujewa and Amanda made stops in North Carolina and Atlanta, Georgia. Among those interviewed were Noralil Ryan Fores of ShortEnd Magazine (who has [...]

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One-on-One Q&A: Tambay Obenson – Director, “Beautiful Things”

July 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Interview

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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Tagging Along on "The Indie Film Bloggers" Shoot

June 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

Yesterday, I tagged along with Sujewa Ekanayake to Brooklyn to meet up with filmmaker and blogger Tambay Obenson, whom Sujewa interviewed for his documentary The Indie Film Bloggers: A Portrait of a Community. Sujewa will also soon be interviewing me for the film. Tambay’s blog is The Obenson Report, which not only reports on African [...]

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