Ben Niles’ documentary, Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037 opens for a two-week run at Film Forum starting this Wednesday, November 7. A couple of days before the film’s theatrical debut, I sat and talked with first-time film director, Niles, and Jim Browne of Argot Pictures. Browne recently came on board […]

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Via Art Brodsky, communications director of PK, “At about the same time this morning that Gigi [Sohn, president of PK] was giving a major speech on copyright reform at Boston University, she was also part of a Good Morning America story on copyright reform.
The GMA story was about the woman who got a take-down notice […]

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For those of you who don’t know, I recently moved to Austin, and I very much wanted to attend the recent NAMAC conference. But, just starting a new job and getting settled in my new place made that a tall order. The National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture is a service organization for media […]

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During IFP’s Independent Film Week last month, I saw Brent Hoff, executive producer of Wholphin, pop in and out of my line of vision almost everywhere I went. Sitting on the “Finding Your Audience” panel with Karina Longworth, Todd Rohal, Mark Elijah Rosenberg and John Vanco, watching works-in-progress in the filmmaker library, attending screenings, […]

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I went to the Austin Film Festival’s French Legation BBQ on Friday and ran into Christen McArdle, the executive director of the Ann Arbor Film Festival, who reminded me about their battle for state funding without censorship of the films that they show. I am hoping to meet up with Christen and get some more […]

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