What Kind of Woman
Film Independent’s Fiscal Sponsorship program opens the door to nonprofit funding for independent filmmakers and media artists. Donate today and help bring What Kind of Woman to life. Logline A young…
Film Independent’s Fiscal Sponsorship program opens the door to nonprofit funding for independent filmmakers and media artists. Donate today and help bring What Kind of Woman to life. Logline A young…
Well, that was fast! Like all good times, the 2017 LA Film Festival has seemingly come and (very nearly) gone faster than seems humanly plausible. Could it really be that—as…
Film Independent’s Fiscal Sponsorship program opens the door to nonprofit funding for independent filmmakers and media artists. Donate today and help bring I’ll Miss You Later to life. IMYL…
Film Independent, the nonprofit arts organization that produces the Film Independent Spirit Awards, announced the seven screenwriters selected for its 22nd annual Screenwriting Lab. This intensive program is…
As crapshoots go, applying for grants is right up there. Yes, you are way more likely to get the grant than to get hit by lightning, but for anyone whose…
The advice that Dan Gilroy, writer and director of Nightcrawler, has for aspiring screenwriters is to “look at it like becoming a doctor. It takes ten years to really learn…
Los Angeles has a reputation for being an expensive place to shoot an indie film. But the truth is, you can save a lot of money by staying local. We’re…
With New Year’s looming just around the next snowdrift, it only makes sense to look back one last time at 2016 and unpack Part Three (click here and here for…
Film Independent’s Fiscal Sponsorship program opens the door to nonprofit funding for independent filmmakers and media artists. Logline A seemingly happy woman is thrown for a loop after an unexpected…
Inarguably one of deceased comedian Groucho Marx’s most famous quotes, the legendary Hollywood funnyman once joked, in a telegram to the Beverly Hills Friars Club, that he “didn’t care to…
The following blog and video piece originally ran on the website Dear Producer and is shared here courtesy of that website’s editor Rebecca Green, a Film Independent Fellow and Creative Advisor. Excerpts from…
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…