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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Break It Down: Harmony Korine & His Spring Breakers
L-R: Ashley Benson, Selena Gomez, Rachel Korine, Harmony Korine, and Eric Kohn.
Moderator:Eric Kohn, Indiewire
With:Harmony Korine, Director, Spring BreakersAshley Benson, Actress, Spring BreakersSelena Gomez, Actress, Spring BreakersRachel Korine, Actress, Spring Breakers
One day toward the end of my senior year of high school, trying to fight off senioritis and [...]

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Sustaining a Career in Indie Film

L-R: Bryan Poyser, Kat Candler, Craig Zobel
With:
Bryan Poyser, Director, The Bounceback
Megan Gilbride, Producer, The Bounceback
Kat Candler, Director, Black Metal
Craig Zobel, Director, Compliance
It’s hard for me to believe that it will be ten years in May since I graduated from college. My goals, I have moved along in my career [...]

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Jeffrey Tambor’s Acting Workshop
March 10, @ 1:30pm, Vimeo Theater, Austin Convention Center

With:
Jeffrey Tambor, Actor
Lindsay Burdge, Actress, A Teacher
Michael Stahl-David, Actor, The Bounceback

Each year, Jeffrey Tambor gives an acting workshop at SXSW that over the years has proven to be one of the most popular panels at the festival. Popular enough that Tambor has [...]

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“The Business of Kevin Smith” @ SXSW
Monday, March 12, 2012 @ 12:30 p.m.
Austin Convention Center

Moderator:
Bob Moczydlowsky, Topspin

With:
Kevin Smith, Director
Monday, March 12, 2012 @ 12:30 p.m.
Written by Rebecca Banach
Kevin Smith acts like he’s had 1,000 cups of coffee before he speaks to an audience. He’s incredibly high strung and energetic. He’s also [...]

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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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Bringing Sexy Back: Where’s The Line Today?

March 13, 2012 at the Austin Convention Center, 3:30 p.m.
Moderator:
Lisa Vandever, founder, CineKink Festival
Panelists:
Sean Baker, director, Starlet
Jessica King, King Is A Fink Productions
Julie Keck, King Is A Fink Productions
Sophia Takal, director, Green

Five years ago, on a trip down to New York City to put on a show, I came [...]

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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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Next month, fellow notetaker Rebecca Banach and I will be coming to Austin for this year’s SXSW Film Festival. We will be arriving on Friday, March 9th, and leaving on Wednesday evening, March 14th. We are currently searching for accommodations, and would prefer a location that’s within three miles of Austin Convention Center [...]

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Hard to believe 2011 is almost over already. It’s been another great year of notes from film panels and filmmaker Q&As, but I have to give most of the credit to my contributing notetakers Erin Scherer, Liz Nord, Erin Essenmacher, and Rebecca Banach, all of whom have an incredible knack for transforming source discussion into compelling summations and analysis. We also had the great privilege to be chosen by The Christian Science Monitor as a blog partners in its Culture Cafe.

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