Tips for Writing Great Characters and Dialogue
So there you sit. Final Draft is open, the tea is warm, and you’re ready to write your screenplay. You’ve blocked out your plot to the tiniest detail, returning to…
So there you sit. Final Draft is open, the tea is warm, and you’re ready to write your screenplay. You’ve blocked out your plot to the tiniest detail, returning to…
NOTE: the below interview originally ran in February of this year. See Darius Marder accept Sound of Metal‘s Spirit Award for Best First Feature here. Catch up with the rest of the 2021…
Please note: This event has reached capacity. In the new landscape of indie filmmaking, savvy producers don’t bet on a big sale at a prestige festival and just hope for…
In our excitement for the upcoming Film Independent Spirit Awards, we’ve reached out to all of the filmmakers nominated for Best First Feature and asked them all kinds of things about…
Filmmaker. Film. Maker. Filmmaker. Filmmaker. Sorry for the momentary plunge into finger-snapping Beat-poet inanity (you can practically smell the burnt Arabica beans and clove cigarillos in the air) but it’s…
At last night’s Live Read, Film Independent at LACMA presented one of Richard Linklater’s most celebrated works, Dazed and Confused. It’s hard to believe it has been 23 years since…
When 2017 Film Independent Documentary Lab Fellow, Amy Goldstein, premiered Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl at the 2018 LA Film Festival, she likely couldn’t have imagined that her intimate, incisive…
In brainstorming visually compelling locations for a tense, confined-space thriller, it’d be hard to do much better than the murky, subterranean depths of a West Virginia coalmine. With sooty corridors…
Produced by Film Independent and presented in partnership with Loyola Marymount University, The Portal featured the best new works in immersive entertainment. We asked Film Independent blogger Jayna Gavieres to…
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For nearly four decades, the motion picture soundtrack album was an integral part of the Hollywood firmament. From Easy Rider to American Pie, compilation albums tied to a major film…
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