SLOAN SUMMIT CASE STUDY: Coded Bias
The 2022 Sloan Film Summit is happening April 8-10 in Los Angeles. In anticipation of this meeting of the best and brightest from the worlds of science and cinema, this…
The 2022 Sloan Film Summit is happening April 8-10 in Los Angeles. In anticipation of this meeting of the best and brightest from the worlds of science and cinema, this…
Welcome to Fiscal Spotlight, a special monthly round up of projects—at all stages of production—working their way through Film Independent’s Fiscal Sponsorship pipeline. *** As Pride celebrations continue to motor along through…
With the release of Oscar-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia’s newest documentary Diego Maradona on HBO, we thought it’d be interesting to ask a bona-fide soccer expert—Tim Frechette of sporting website Athletic…
Filmmaker Stefon Bristol’s 2019 debut See You Yesterday (Netflix) demonstrated the filmmaker’s deft ability to blend tones and legibly render a complex time-travel story injected with social consciousness and the…
Film Independent’s Fiscal Sponsorship program opens the door to nonprofit funding for independent filmmakers and media artists. Donate today and help bring Sardinia to life. Logline A serious man…
The Film Independent Imaginar Producers Residency is a new program created to support Latinx Producers, made possible by The Walt Disney Company and Searchlight Pictures, in collaboration with the National…
Over five weeks, filmmakers from across the world converged for the Global Media Makers (GMM) LA Residency a cultural diplomacy initiative of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau for Educational…
One of our most popular reoccurring panels—this time happening at the 2019 Film Independent Forum at the new LMU Playa Vista Campus on Saturday, April 27—Film Independent’s latest Producers Coffee…
Film Independent’s Fiscal Sponsorship program opens the door to nonprofit funding for independent filmmakers and media artists. Donate today and help bring Smile… the Worst is Yet to Come to…
“So this is a bit awkward,” began director Jon M. Chu as he stepped up to the podium to give the 2015 Film Independent Forum keynote address. A day earlier…
According to Google Maps, a flight from São Paulo to The Ivory Coast takes somewhere around 12 hours. The Ivory Coast to Sarajevo is another 12, Sarajevo to Budapest six….
I interviewed Desiree Akhavan, writer-director of Appropriate Behavior, after the film world premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. The winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Screenwriting at Outfest,…