Continuing to rack up numerous wins and nominations across awards season, Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland is entering the home stretch now with both the Film Independent Spirit Awards (where the film…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/detail-oriented-creating-the-careful-soundscapes-of-nomadland-part-one-of-two/
So! How’d you do on your 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards ballot? Not good? Well, don’t worry, because a brand new film year begins right now with a fresh crop of…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/dont-miss-indies-what-to-watch-in-march-24/
Narrative Feature Director: Randall Miller Producers: Jody Savin, Randall Miller, Todd Harris, Marc Lhormer, Brenda Lhormer Budget: $5 million Financing: Private Equity Production: August–September 2007 Shooting Format: 35mm Screening Format:…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/case-study-bottle-shock/
Thinking of applying to our 2024 Episodic Directing Intensive? The non-Member deadline to apply is coming up: Monday, March 4 (the extended deadline for Film Independent Members is Monday, March 18)….
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/invaluable-lessons-a-filmmakers-perspective-on-film-independents-episodic-workshop/
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…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/shirtless-models-and-barf-bags-dispatches-from-a-triangle-of-sadness-live-read/
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…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/the-new-wave-actors-seven-performers-you-need-to-know-right-now/
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….
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/member-lens-how-fellow-hank-jones-structures-stories-and-career/
Week two of Film Independent’s 2018 Directors Close-Up series began with the introduction of acclaimed screenwriter (and sometime director) Mike White, the man behind the scripts for Chuck & Buck, School…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/directors-close-script-notes-writers-behind-beatriz-ingrid/
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…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/watch-five-los-angeles-shorts-by-our-global-media-makers-fellows/
If you’ve been following this blog for a while, then you know we’re big fans of the art house experience. Sure, the emergence of streaming sites and cable VOD has…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/a-museum-of-cinema-the-frida-cinemas-logan-crow-brings-the-art-house-to-orange-county/
The 2023 Film Independent Screenwriting Lab deadline is coming up: September 14 for non-Members and September 28 for Members. To encourage you to think about applying, we’re rerunning our coverage of the…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/writers-salon-advice-for-creating-better-characters-and-better-dialogue/
Fifteen years ago Steven Shainberg made Secretary, a career-making film that the director insists “couldn’t get made today.” An idiosyncratic look at the development of a BDSM-style relationship between a…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/director-steven-shainberg-building-tension-rupture-fifteen-years-secretary/