Movies are a mosaic of moving parts. But we don’t always see which parts, or who’s moving them. Each month in Detail Oriented, Su Fang Tham explores some of the more…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/detail-oriented-la-la-land-sound-mixer-on-how-to-get-started-in-production-sound/
Film Independent Fellow and Member Mo Perkins had the extraordinary opportunity to shadow it-director Jill Soloway on the set of Transparent, which makes its greatly anticipated premiere tomorrow on Amazon Prime. The…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/what-i-learned-from-jill-soloway-mo-perkins-shares-her-experience-as-a-shadow/
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…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/obvious-child-director-gillian-robespierre-on-why-shes-excited-for-the-spirit-awards/
If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance that awards shows are your Super Bowl. If that’s the case, good news—The Film Independent Spirit Awards are kicking off the biggest…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/your-guide-to-following-the-2016-film-independent-spirit-awards-online/
NOTE: After seven great sessions online, the 2022 Directors Close-Up returns in-person this Wednesday, March 2 at the Landmark Theatres in Los Angeles. To see the remainder of our in-person DCU…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/directors-close-up-small-budgets-equal-big-swings-for-this-years-john-cassavetes-award-nominees/
NOTE: the following interview originally ran in January of this year. We’re re-posting it here with a special thanks to Mr. D’Monte. *** Film, you may have heard, is a visual…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/interview-storyboard-artist-neil-dmonte-on-comics-creativity-and-thinking-visually/
There are dozens of classes and seminars that profess to teach what a producer does, but very few that teach the manner in which one should do it. How do…
https://www.filmindependent.org/events/producers-etiquette-2020/
Includes a conversation with actress Katharine Houghton and actress Karen Sharpe Kramer In 1967, for the first time in film history, as Mark Harris noted in his book, Pictures at…
https://www.filmindependent.org/events/free-screening-guess-whos-coming-to-dinner/
In Part One of our two-part interview, makeup artist Angie Wells and hairstylist Daniel Curet talked about what it was like to swap out radically different looks for star Carey…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/detail-oriented-promising-young-woman-hair-and-makeup-deep-dive-part-two/
It was fitting that at the start of last night’s Master Class session at The Grammy Museum with Atticus Ross, the Academy-Award winning composer was just one of four musicians…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/atticus-ross-reveals-why-he-loves-collaboration-and-hates-temps/
In this special guest post, Film Independent Director of Artist Development Lisa Hasko explains the process of putting together our recent panel “Collective Building + Social Change” at the 2020…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/guest-post-building-film-coalitions-empowering-collectives-and-reflecting-on-how-to-do-better/
Nick Hornby made a name for himself with the novels High Fidelity and About a Boy, both of which were adapted into successful films in the early 2000s. Recently, his…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/nick-hornby-discusses-the-joy-and-pain-of-adaptation/