All Panels Located At:
Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center
107 Suffolk Street, New York, NY 10002

$5 or FREE w/ RFF Badge or RFF Movie Stub

Moderators: Dina Elkan – Events & Marketing Coordinator, Solar One
Judy Harper – Director, Green Edge NYC

Panelists Include: Tony Stone – Director, Out of Our Minds
Jesse Ash – GreenerMedia.com
M.J. Magbanua – White Collar (Series Premier October 23rd on USA Network)
Kerin Ferallo – Production Coordinator, FX’s Damages
Dan Nuxoll – Program Director, Rooftop Films

Panel Synopsis: A presentation of case studies from the film, TV and commercial worlds that were environmentally friendly and saved money in the process. We'll talk with directors, producers, set decorators and other key people responsible for making the film "green" and look into the new methods and resources they've employed, while showing other filmmakers how to do the same. Representatives from various "green" organizations that work with film productions will also be on hand.

$5 or FREE w/ RFF Badge or RFF Movie Stub

Moderator: John Holmstrom – Founder & Editor, PUNK Magazine & JohnHolmstrom.com

Panelists Include: Michael K – Founder/Editor, Dlisted.com
Brandon Harris – Hammer to Nail, Filmmaker Magazine, Spout Blog, Cinema Echo Chamber
Heidi MacDonald – Editor, Publisher Weekly's The Beat
Brandon Kim – IFC.com’s Indie Ear

Panel Synopsis: More and more, media junkies are turning to blogs to shape their opinions on mass media and popular culture. From straight-forward news coverage to film, music, and art criticism, political commentary, or even celebrity gossip; blogs are the new indicator of public interest. And people just can't seem to get enough of them. What about the people behind the blogs? Who are they & why do they even do what they do? What keeps them going? What other blogs do they read and emulate?

In this panel, leading bloggers will help you sift through the ever-growing landscape of blogs, discuss their own experiences and answer these and other probing questions. And then when it's all over, they will BLOG THIS PANEL by posting on their own blogs about their experience being on the panel and what they learned that they didn't know before from the other panelists. (They are even welcome to "live blog" the panel during the discussion). This will be a fun and interactive panel that is sure to excite and invigorate the world of blogs as we know it.

$5 or FREE w/ RFF Badge or RFF Movie Stub

Moderator: Pamela Cohn – Founder/Editor, Still in Motion

Panelists Include: Andrew Berends – Delta Boys
Ross Kauffman – Born into Brothels
Eric Daniel Metzgar – "Reporter"
Ian Olds – Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi
Laura Poitras - My Country, My Country

Panel Synopsis: Documentary filmmakers often risk life and limb to tell important stories of people in war-torn and impoverished places around the world. Examinations of social, cultural, or political situations pose the question, what is the extent a filmmaker will go in order to tell the story? Documentarians will discuss their own personal experiences that lie behind the real stories of the people and places told through their films. Find out what it's like to be in the trenches and amoung perilous situations for the sake of creating important films that will impact audiences across the world.