New Ed Ruscha Artwork Commemorates the Los Angeles Film Festival
With the Los Angeles Film Festival a little less than four months away, the Festival team has kicked into high gear. We’ve received more than 5,300 submissions, and today, we’ve…
With the Los Angeles Film Festival a little less than four months away, the Festival team has kicked into high gear. We’ve received more than 5,300 submissions, and today, we’ve…
Produced by Film Independent and presented in partnership with Loyola Marymount University, The Portal featured the best new works in immersive entertainment. We asked The Doc Life author Anthony Ferranti…
“Welcome to a Live Read of the best Star Wars movie ever made!” So began last night’s Live Read of The Empire Strikes Back, introduced by Film Independent curator Elvis…
Bust out the popcorn and pass out the cigars. In honor of Kate and Will’s royal bundle of joy, we asked our Film Independent family to weigh in with their…
Filmmakers and close friends Jennifer Prediger and Jess Weixler, whose co-directorial debut Trouble Dolls had its world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival last month, have incredible chemistry, both…
Production for Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl began in early 2015 and the film’s star, Eddie Redmayne, spent an entire year preparing for the role before filming began. Just two…
Produced by Film Independent, and presented in partnership with Loyola Marymount University, The Portal took place September 20-22, featuring the best new works in immersive entertainment. We asked musician, writer…
You’ve heard filmmakers say it time and time again—making a movie is like giving birth. If that’s the case, then for producers, selling a film is like giving that baby…
“Fun.” Director Paul Jarrett didn’t hesitate for a second when asked the one word that best summed up his experience on the set of his feature film debut Fan Girl,…
For filmmakers, critics, industry types and even civilian cineastes, the rush to close out the 2010s has resulted in bevvy of end-of-decade best-of lists, remembrances and appreciations. Looking back at…
A little over a week ago, Best First Screenplay Spirit Award winner Justin Simien told the revelers at the ceremony that he started writing Dear White People “as an impulse…
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…