The Film Panel Notetaker

“Children of Invention”Q&A with Director Tze Chun, Cast & CrewWoodstock Film FestivalOctober 3, 2009

CHILDREN OF INVENTION HD Trailer #1 from Children of Invention on Vimeo.
The second half of “Children of Invention,” Tze Chun’s touching drama about two inventive Asian-American children, older brother Raymond (played by Michael Chen) and younger sister Tina (played by Crystal Chiu), [...]

[Read more →]

Amazing Women in FilmWoodstock Film FestivalOctober 3, 2009
I know the headline for this blog sounds a little macabre and something you might see in Weekly Weird News, but it’s just a pun for saying that I watched half of Tze Chun’s “Children of Invention” and half of the panel, Amazing Women in Film. How is [...]

[Read more →]

Redesigning Humanity – The New FrontierWoodstock Film FestivalOctober 2, 2009
This may be one of the most unique film panels assembled in recent history, but how will it measure up to the future? Well, that was sort of the question debated in this very interesting and informative discussion. In conjunction with the World Premiere of Richard [...]

[Read more →]

Woodstock Film Festival held another impressive showing of films and panel discussions in the artistic hamlet of Woodstock, NY, in the Catskills, during the festival’s 10th anniversary. Notes from panel discussions and filmmaker Q&As will be posted in the coming days.
Awards were handed out Saturday night during a ceremony at Backstage Studio Productions not far [...]

[Read more →]

How are these for topics at a panel discussion? Artificial intelligence, nanotechnology and genetic engineering? Bring it on! I predict that either Erin or myself will be taking notes at this very cool panel called Redesigning Humanity – The New Frontier during the 1oth Anniversary of the Woodstock Film Festival. Read more about this fascinating [...]

[Read more →]

2008 saw the birth of the One-on-One Q&A, where I interviewed a number of filmmakers including Lucia Small and Ed Pincus (The Axe in the Attic), Leah Meyerhoff (Unicorns), Paul Krik (Able Danger), Fritz Donnelly (To the Hills 2), Phillip Van (Come Wander With Me), Sue Williams (Young & Restless in China), Daniel Robin (My [...]

[Read more →]

2008 Woodstock Film FestivalActors Dialogue: Mary Stuart Masterson & Melissa LeoSunday, October 5, 2009

(Mary Stuart Masterson, center, and Melissa Leo, far right, observe Martha Frankel, far left, making last-minute notes before the Actor’s Dialogue as Meira Blaustein, off-camera, makes an introduction) Photo by Brian Geldin.
The always hilarious, often risqué and well-researched celebrity interviewer Martha Frankel [...]

[Read more →]

2008 Woodstock Film FestivalConversation with Honorary Trailblazer James SchamusSaturday, October 4, 2008

Ang Lee and James Schamus at Woodstock Film Festival Awards Ceremony. Photo by Brian Geldin.
Film critic Karen Durbin sat down with Focus Features CEO James Schamus Saturday during the Woodstock Film Festival for a conversation with distributor and often producer/screenwriter of Ang Lee’s films [...]

[Read more →]

2008 Woodstock Film FestivalWere the World MineFriday, October 3, 2008

“Were the World Mine” Director Tom Gustafson. Photo by Brian Geldin.

Tom Gustafson’s Shakespeare-inspired musical Were the World Mine, a hit on the festival circuit this past year, made a stop at the Woodstock Film Festival on Friday. The film tells the story Timothy, a gay [...]

[Read more →]

fi2008 Woodstock Film FestivalMusic in Film – Conversation with DonovanFriday, October 3, 2009

Donovan and Doreen Ringer Ross. Photo by Brian Geldin.
Folk rock music legend Donovan known for such songs as Mellow Yellow and Hurdy Gurdy Man sat down with BMI’s Doreen Ringer Ross on Friday during the Woodstock Film Festival, for a conversation about [...]

[Read more →]