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…
Each month in Know the Score, writer and composer Aaron Gilmartin steps out of the scoring stage and explores, in detail, some important aspect of movie music. After all, film is as…
To celebrate the end of another great year in independent film, Film Independent is re-posting some of our favorite blogs of 2023. And here’s a reminder: there’s still time to…
We’ve all watched that one show and thought, “Wow, I love the actors in this!” But not many of us think about the people actually responsible for populating our favorite…
Though we’ll always have a special place in our heart for the sterile workspace cubicles from which last year’s ceremony was piloted in absentia, it was a relief this year…
This year the Los Angeles Film Festival has redoubled its efforts to showcase unique voices that will shape the future of film. “Our curatorial focus this year was to create…
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…
For adults, the life of a modern teenager can seem profoundly unfathomable. Part of this is due to the rapidly accumulating cognitive fog that, for the grown-up brain, tends to…
Our ongoing Member Lens feature spotlights current Film Independent Members to see how they got started, where they are now and what being part of Film Independent means to them….
Filmmaker Savannah Leaf’s journey toward making Earth Mama, her feature debut, was not a linear one. The seeds of the new A24 release—about a young single mother in circa-2000s Oakland,…
As the seagull flies, Orange County is just 43 short miles from the heart of Hollywood. But culturally and ideologically it can often seem like an entire world away—or at…
With the feature film version of Alexi Pappas and Jeremy Teicher’s Olympic Dreams having recently premiered to acclaim at SXSW, we’re taking the opportunity to re-post this interview with the filmmakers about…