The Film Panel Notetaker

At Sundance yesterday, nominees for the 2nd annual Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking were announced. The Film Panel Notetaker will bring you coverage of the ceremony taking place March 29 in New York. In the mean time, here’s various reportage from Stranger Than Fiction blog, All These Wonderful Things and indieWIRE from the nominations [...]

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While The Film Panel Notetaker did not make it out to Sundance, we’ve gathered a menagerie of links to other people’s coverage of the panels taking place there. Hope everyone enjoyed the inauguration today, and see you tonight in New York at Stranger Than Fiction for The Education of Shelby Knox.
indieWIRE:Responding To Prop 8: Cooper, [...]

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State of Film FestivalsIndependent Film WeekMonday, September 15, 20085:30-7pmFIT – Haft Auditorium – New York, NY

Monday at Independent Film Week, IFP Executive Director Michelle Byrd moderated the State of Film Festivals discussion with Christian Gaines and Geoff Gilmore. Below is an edited transcript of the main points brought out in the discussion.
Moderator:Michelle Byrd, IFP
Panelists:Christian Gaines, [...]

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2008 Sundance Award Winners
Last night, the jury and audience award-winners of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival were announced at the Sundance Film Festival’s closing Awards Ceremony hosted by William H. Macy.
And the awards went to…
The Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – TROUBLE THE WATER
The Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – FROZEN RIVER
The World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary [...]

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The 2008 Sundance Film Festival is approximately at its half-way mark today. Here’s a couple of tidbits from the festival panels so far that I found while surfing the net.
Strike Panel:EW.com
Webolution Panel:CNet
Film Church Panel:Deseret Morning News
Women in Film Panel:Cinematical

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Bradley Glenn, director/producer of the feature documentary The Seminar with Robert McKee, informed me that there will be a launch party for the Producer’s Guild of America Sundance Producers Lab Screening series on Wednesday, January 23 at the Stella Artois House in Park City, Utah. I have viewed the trailer myself and it looks like [...]

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Volunteer Notetakers sought to cover Sundance/Slamdance panels
If you will be in Park City at all for either the Sundance or the Slamdance film festivals, and plan to attend any of the panel discussions there and would like to volunteer as a notetaker, please let me know, and I will add you as a Contributing Notetaker [...]

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Today, I received my Sundance ‘08 Film Guide in the mail. In addition to listing all of the films in and out of competition, several pages are devoted to highlighting film panels that will take place in and around Park City. Among these panels are Webolution! – Hollywood Adapts to the Web, Doug Liman: “Sharing [...]

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More news out of Park City today. Sundance Institute announced today the lineup of films screening at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival in the out-of-competition sections of Premieres, Spectrum, New Frontier, and Park City at Midnight. Read the list here.

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