Our November 22 announcement of the 2023 Film Independent Spirit Award film nominees was already teetering on the precipice of excess cool. To have also revealed the 2023 television nominees…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/here-are-the-2023-film-independent-spirit-award-tv-nominees/
Film Independent, the nonprofit arts organization celebrating 40 years of the Spirit Awards, announced the eight writers selected for the 2024 Episodic Lab. Honey Ahmad, Mayanka Goel, Eunice Lau, Kyle Lau…
https://www.filmindependent.org/press-releases/film-independent-announces-episodic-lab-participants-aug24/
Pop the cork on a bottle of Chianti. Today we are celebrating the news that the director behind one of our favorite cinema villains of all time will be joining…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/three-reasons-we-cant-wait-to-see-jonathan-demme-at-the-los-angeles-film-festival/
Despite everything, one of the more encouraging things to come out of the lingering coronavirus situation has been an explosion in creativity, both in the novel ways we’ve conceived of…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/undeterred-and-in-charge-meet-the-2020-film-independent-directing-lab-fellows/
This piece was originally posted in 2022. We have updated the “Where to Watch” section for each film. *** Each year, Americans observe National Hispanic Heritage Month from September 15…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/icymi-10-great-indies-for-national-hispanic-heritage-month/
Filmmakers and husband-and-wife team Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly like to follow an unconventional path—even for independent artists. After self-distributing their first feature, documentary The Way We Get By, they…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/indie-filmmakers-explain-how-to-create-an-innovative-marketing-strategy/
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…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/dear-producer-diana-ward-on-telling-stories-multiple-ways/
Film Independent’s Fiscal Sponsorship program opens the door to nonprofit funding for independent filmmakers and media artists. Logline A pregnant Palestinian woman, whose husband died in the Israeli prison, wants…
https://www.filmindependent.org/programs/fiscal-sponsorship/something-to-live-for/
If you’re anything like us, you’ve just come off a long Labor Day weekend doing… what, exactly? Successfully completing difficult home improvement projects? Spending hours of hyper-focused quality time with…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/on-and-all-the-way-up-meet-the-2019-film-independent-episodic-lab-fellows/
Regardless of its importance to the storytelling process, film music is too often an afterthought. There are a variety of theories that composers have as to why, and they’re mostly…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/know-score-brief-history-film-music/
This morning, Film Independent announced that Aubrey Plaza (Ingrid Goes West, Legion, Parks & Recreation) will host the 2019 Film Independent Spirit Awards. The Spirit Awards are the primary fundraiser…
https://www.filmindependent.org/press-releases/aubrey-plaza-to-host-34th-film-independent-spirit-awards/
Film Independent’s Fiscal Sponsorship program opens the door to nonprofit funding for independent filmmakers and media artists. Logline A short film about two queer women recalling their awkward, closeted…
https://www.filmindependent.org/programs/fiscal-sponsorship/were-you-gay-in-high-school/