“We were as stoned as we could get; we’d taken everything we had,” David Crosby matter-of-factly informs us, his long mane of white hair draped across his sofa. Within five…
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When someone declares you “champion” in eighth grade, where do you go next? Such is the question at the center of actor-turned-filmmaker Sujata Day’s debut feature Definition Please. In addition…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/interview-sujata-days-debut-feature-spells-comedy-drama-and-coming-of-age/
Film Independent’s Fiscal Sponsorship program opens the door to nonprofit funding for independent filmmakers and media artists. Donate today and help bring Portrait of a Young Man to life. Logline…
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Film Independent, the nonprofit arts org that produces the Film Independent Spirit Awards, announced today the creation of The MPAC Hollywood Bureau Writing Fellowship, providing a $10,000 grant to…
https://www.filmindependent.org/press-releases/film-independent-announces-new-mpac-hollywood-bureau-writing-fellowship/
Live Read regular and friend of Film Independent, Nick Kroll drew an enthusiastic and packed crowd to the Bing Theater at LACMA on Friday for the screening of the first…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/kroll-show-fans-get-a-sneak-peek-at-the-hilarious-new-season/
Gren Wells’ directorial debut, The Road Within, premiered last year at the Los Angeles Film Festival. The poignant story follows a young man with Tourette’s syndrome who befriends two other rehab…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/la-film-fest-success-story-a-first-time-directors-heartfelt-comedy-on-mental-illness-makes-its-theatrical-debut/
The bad news? Hollywood’s diversity problem (or, more accurately, its lack-of-diversity problem) still isn’t anywhere close to being definitively solved. But one positive is this: over the past decade, studios…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/video-we-the-people-discusses-life-beyond-diversity-programs/
Missed the 2020 Film Independent Forum when it happened live? Don’t worry—the full 2020 Forum Toolkit is now available On Demand through October 31, packed with panels, workshops and in-depth…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/on-demand-neons-elissa-federoff-talks-flexible-film-distribution-pre-and-post-pandemic/
Over the past week or so our already polarized national discourse has been further electrified, thanks an uncharacteristically leaky Supreme Court, which let slip recently with details about a shock…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/the-must-list-three-comedies-and-two-dramas-about-unplanned-pregnancy/
“We’ve gotten to the point where we do this ultra-prepared thing before we start. We prepare it almost like an animated movie where it’s even been edited even before we’re…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/i-need-it-to-be-fun-wes-anderson-on-why-he-relies-on-friends-as-collaborators/
Film Independent’s Fiscal Sponsorship program opens the door to nonprofit funding for independent filmmakers and media artists. Logline A gay Holocaust researcher struggles to convince his boyfriend’s grandfather, a Dachau…
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Film geeks get a special treat this October when Film Independent at LACMA and Loyola Marymount University (LMU) School of Film and Television present 21 films from West Africa—most of…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/four-reasons-film-geeks-should-catch-cameras-dafrique/