Happy May Day, everybody! And not to distract from your Dionysian reverie frolicking around the pole or anything, but the fact that today is May 1 means that the non-Member…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/guest-post-producing-lab-fellow-maria-altamirano-goes-from-festival-volunteer-to-sundance-superstar/
Film Independent, the nonprofit arts organization that produces the Film Independent Spirit Awards, announced today that this year’s awards ceremony will take place on Thursday, April 22 at 10:00 pm ET in a…
https://www.filmindependent.org/press-releases/film-independent-moves-the-2021-spirit-awards-to-thursday-april-22-for-a-unique-evening-telecast/
Film Independent’s Fiscal Sponsorship program opens the door to nonprofit funding for independent filmmakers and media artists. Donate today and help bring First Feature to life. Logline Intrepid student filmmaker…
https://www.filmindependent.org/programs/fiscal-sponsorship/first-feature/
Behind every (fill in the blank) great/glorious/funny/scary/sad story told on film is an equally great/glorious/funny/scary (yes, probably sometimes) sad story: the one about how the whole thing went from being an idea…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/humanizing-a-complicated-political-issue-the-story-behind-oriented/
NOTE: The below piece originally ran in 2017. We’re re-posting it here with minor edits to the original text. Special thanks to author Su Fang Tham and subject Mitch Paulson….
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/detail-oriented-art-color-correction-part-one/
Film Independent’s Fiscal Sponsorship program supports a huge variety of projects. And while we take time to tout rookie Fi Fiscal Sponsorship projects (and encourage your support of them!) in each month’s Fiscal Spotlight column, you…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/fispo-updates-double-feature-download-salsa-and-lumpia-at-the-movies/
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Alia Quart Khan, Film Independent Tel: 310.432.1287 or aqkhan@filmindependent.org Ryan Collins, Ginsberg/Libby Tel: 323.645.6800 or ryan.collins@ginsberglibby.org FILM INDEPENDENT ANNOUNCES CALL FOR ENTRIES OPEN FOR 23rd LA FILM…
https://www.filmindependent.org/press-releases/film-independent-announces-call-for-entries-open-for-23rd-la-film-festival/
Let’s try a visualization exercise. Imagine you’re a budding filmmaker. You have a great idea for a movie, but no tangible access to production companies, financiers, agents or any of…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/operator-filmmaker-logan-kibens-on-fast-track-and-film-independents-alfred-p-sloan-foundation-grants/
Are you a nonfiction filmmaker? An auteur of the unscripted? A vociferous vendor of vérité? Well, time dust off those release forms and double-check that the baseplates for your field…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/its-true-applications-for-the-2022-film-independent-documentary-lab-are-now-open/
Crank up the witch house and start peeling those grapes for the eyeball bowl, because the spookiest month of the year is once again upon us! All roads lead to…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/fiscal-spotlight-naturally-octobers-projects-are-short-and-scary/
Film Independent’s Fiscal Sponsorship program opens the door to nonprofit funding for independent filmmakers and media artists. Logline NORA’S MOTHER and NORA’S HUSBAND follow the already-produced NORA to create a…
https://www.filmindependent.org/programs/fiscal-sponsorship/nora-noras-mother-noras-husband/
Toronto International Film Festival Artistic Director Cameron Bailey introduced his guest last Friday night as “somebody who was born and raised in British Columbia and has somehow become an all-American…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/taylor-kitsch-on-the-biggest-risk-of-his-career/