The Film Panel Notetaker

Tribeca Talks: Knife Fight
Film and panel give insight into our political process
April 25, 2012 at the BMCC, Manhattan
Posted by Liz Nord | Twitter @lizfilm

The cast of Knife Fight, including Rob Lowe and Richard Schiff, introduce the film’s world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Moderator:
Mark Halperin, MSNBC senior political analyst
Panelists:
Bill Guttentag, director
Chris Lehane, co-writer and Democratic [...]

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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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Posted by Liz Nord | Twitter @lizfilm
Q & A with *Bombay Beach director Alma Har’el
Tribeca Film Festival
New York, NY
April 26, 2011
*Since this was originally posted, Bombay Beach won Best Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Alma Har’el is a rockstar. OK, technically, she is a director who hangs out with rockstars, but her shock of red [...]

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Posted by Liz Nord | Twitter @lizfilm
Tribeca Talks Industry – Meet the Documentary Broadcasters
Tribeca Film Festival
New York, NY
April 23, 2011

This informative panel of top-notch industry execs moderated by prolific producer John Battsek will apparently soon be broadcast in its entirety on the Tribeca site. I’ll therefore cut right to the chase and answer the [...]

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Posted by Liz Nord | Twitter: @lizfilm
One of my favorite things about film festivals is when, due to random screening schedules and viewing choices, two seemingly unrelated films become more interesting in the context of each other. This happened on my first day at Tribeca ‘11, with two films that could not have seemed more [...]

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Tribeca Film Festival 2010
Quotable Quotes from the Q&As
By Brian Geldin
Freetime Machos:
Freetime Machos was much more than just a sports documentary about a Rugby team in Oulu, Finland (one of the worst scoring teams in its league), but more about the relationships, friendships, and bonds that are made amongst its players and their everyday lives.
Quotable Quotes:
When [...]

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Tribeca Film Festival
Joan Rivers – A Piece of Work
April 26, 2010
By Brian Geldin
Joan Rivers – A Piece of Work is a vérité portrait of the tireless, ballsy and hilarious veteran of show business, Joan Rivers, who has been through many highs and lows, and will do almost anything for a laugh, no matter what the obstacle. A [...]

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Tribeca Film Festival
The Other City
April 26, 2010
By Brian Geldin
Susan Koch’s eye-opening and heartbreaking documentary, The Other City, examines the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS, activists fighting for HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention, and organizations caring for people dying of the disease in our nation’s capital, Washington, DC, which has an alarming 3% of its population [...]

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Tribeca Film Festival
Checking Up on Docs: A Conversation with Sheila Nevins
Moderated by Geoffrey Gilmore
April 25, 2010
By Brian Geldin
Sheila Nevins, head of HBO Documentary Films, sat down for an intimate discussion with Tribeca’s Geoffrey Gilmore to discuss her illustrious career at the cable TV network as a pioneering executive and how the documentary form has evolved [...]

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Posted by Liz Nord / Twitter @lizfilm
Tribeca Mini-Reviews: What to Catch
Tribeca Film Festival
New York, NY
April 2010
With the final weekend of the Tribeca Film Festival upon us and last-minute screenings being added as we speak, here are my two cents on the festival films so far. I enjoyed the movies for the most part, but the [...]

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