It’s true: Film Independent’s Fiscal Sponsorship program supports a huge variety of projects. Features. Shorts. Fiction. Nonfiction. VR. Even film-related community support organizations, festivals, web resources and other cinema arts…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/fispo-updates-three-of-our-favorite-fiscal-sponsorship-projects-where-are-they-now/
Movies are a mosaic of moving parts. But we don’t always see which parts, or who’s moving them. In Detail Oriented, Su Fang Tham explores some of the more specialized areas—and…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/dp-phedon-papamichael-on-the-vintage-look-and-analog-action-of-ford-v-ferrari/
Do you remember the very first moment when you realized a movie could be far more than just a brief, amiable diversion from the temporal slog of life as an…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/survey-says-our-fellows-tell-us-which-movies-old-and-new-they-consider-a-masterpiece/
A strong, working understanding of distribution strategies and windows is an empowering and essential skill for today’s independent filmmaker. Over the course of one full weekend, you’ll have the unique…
https://www.filmindependent.org/events/toolkit-create-your-distribution-strategy-2023/
In this edition of our ‘Meet the Festival Filmmakers’ blog series, we hear from five of the documentary filmmakers screening at this year’s Los Angeles Film Festival, and learn a…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/meet-the-festival-filmmakers-part-4/
Each month in This Is How We Do It, writer Cortney Matz mines her own frustrations to explore issues of productivity and come away with more or less helpful thoughts on how…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/this-is-how-we-do-it-how-anal-should-we-be-about-sleep/
The holidays are upon us! And regardless of your belief system or regimen of season-specific secular obligations, as we enter this second half of December you’re likely mired in some…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/we-couldnt-do-it-without-you-film-independent-and-creating-systematic-change-in-2020/
This photo is the way it happens in your dreams. In your dreams you are pitching a room full of enraptured execs, all leaning forward in their seats, nodding, smiling….
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/greetings-from-the-trenches-how-an-indie-filmmaking-duo-perfected-the-pitch-that-scored-an-abc-development-deal/
The places where we fell in love with film are often as important to us as the films themselves. Our new column, Theater Crawl, seeks to shine a light on some…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/theater-crawl-re-launching-the-iowa-theater-a-madison-county-classic/
Benh Zeitlin’s 2012 feature debut Beasts of the Southern Wild is a magical piece of filmmaking, in more ways than one. Of course there’s the film itself: a magical-realist swampland…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/watch-now-benh-zeitlin-on-the-music-of-wendy-and-beasts-of-the-southern-wild/
Most filmmakers only really get going when the pain of not making a movie finally boils over to the point where it exceeds the pain of making a movie. And…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/what-microbudget-means-and-how-to-do-it-right/
For a lot of people, 2016 hasn’t exactly gone according to plan. Perhaps that’s what makes the promise of the holiday season this year even more appealing than normal—a chance…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/must-list-5-favorite-movies-watch-holidays/