Someone We Watched: Ramin Bahrani – The Price to Be Paid
Each year, the Film Independent Spirit Awards give the Someone to Watch Award to an emerging filmmaker of singular vision. In this column, film critic David Bax revisits some of the grant’s…
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Someone We Watched: Julia Loktev’s Women on the Brink
Each year, the Film Independent Spirit Awards give the Someone to Watch Award to an emerging filmmaker of singular vision. In this column, film critic David Bax revisits some of the grant’s…
Consumed: Fellow Rosie Haber Talks Witchcraft, Kendrick and Korean Spas
Twice a month in Consumed, our Film Independent Fellows take a break from creating to talk about their reading, watching, listening and sometimes even eating habits to find out what informs their…
Coffee Talks: Spike Lee Protégés on Exploring Police Brutality in Their Sci-Fi Debut
So what does an up-and-coming filmmaking duo talk about over hot drinks during quarantine? Well, if you watched our April 23 Coffee Talks conversation with friends and collaborators Fredrica Bailey…
Mistakes and Mustaches: How My Friends and I Made a Hit Two-Hour Web Series
In this special guest post, indie filmmaker Kyle Kenyon takes us behind the scenes of his 2019 web series Schmotts, which continues to be programmed—and win awards!—at film festivals worldwide….
HIBM: Her Inescapable Brave Mission
Film Independent’s Fiscal Sponsorship program opens the door to nonprofit funding for independent filmmakers and media artists. Logline International human-rights advocate, Cara Yar Khan, battling an aggressive, fatal, muscle-wasting disease…
Meet the Best Directors Born Since 2001 at Future Filmmakers
When it comes to measuring the career pace of top film auteurs, even the most upstart cinematic wunderkinds usually have to wait until their 20s or 30s to see their…
Don’t Be A Dick: Directing Lab Fellow Pamela Ribon’s On-Set Communication Tips
As avid film fans and creators, we sometimes take for granted the fact that not every person out there understands just what a film director is or does. Often, the…
Darius Marder on Acting, Authenticity and the Aural Experience of ‘Sound of Metal’
NOTE: the below interview originally ran in February of this year. See Darius Marder accept Sound of Metal‘s Spirit Award for Best First Feature here. Catch up with the rest of the 2021…
Interview: Media Access Awards Host Nyle DiMarco Preps for Thursday’s Big Event
When considering which demographic groups are most starved for more equitable and inclusive media representation, it’s hard not to acknowledge the fact that the Disabled community has, historically, been woefully…
A Melting Pot Of Dark Humor—The Story Behind Dude Bro Party Massacre III
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…
From Meme to Mayhem: ‘Feels Good Man’ Doc Seeks to Explain Pepe the Frog
The world, of course, has always been a weird place. But the last four years have been particularly weird, a seemingly cosmically unbalanced string of events ranging from the merely…