Narrative Feature Director: Javier Fuentes-Léon Producers: Javier Fuentes-Léon, Rodrigo Guerrero Budget: Under $1 million Financing: Foreign co-production funds; Grants; Small private equity Production: Six weeks/Perú/November–December 2008 Shooting Format: Super 16mm…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/undertow-aka-contracorriente/
When Frances McDormand won the Oscar for Best Actress (for Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri) in March, she memorably pointedly concluded her acceptance speech with two words: inclusion rider. The…
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NOTE: The below piece originally ran in 2017. We’re re-posting it here with minor edits to the original text. Special thanks to author Su Fang Tham and subject Mitch Paulson….
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/detail-oriented-the-art-of-color-correction-part-two/
Writer-director Billy Ray busted out his bag of tricks at a recent workshop for Project Involve Fellows. Best known for writing the screenplays for the blockbuster Hunger Games and Captain…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/how-to-take-the-terror-out-of-writing-and-other-change-your-life-insights-from-hunger-games-screenwriter-billy-ray/
Live Read is back! The new season kicks off Thursday with Sam Mendes’s beloved film American Beauty, which celebrated its 15th anniversary last month. (Reitman already has announced that the…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/sam-mendes/
“Thank you for the fly, the pool, the plane, the train, the flower, the bacon, the bell. Thank you.” Director Jason Reitman declared his gratitude to Breaking Bad creator Vince…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/breakingbad/
Each year, the Film Independent Spirit Awards gives the John Cassavetes Award to the year’s best feature made for under $500,000. In this column, film critic David Bax compares and contrasts past…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/from-microbudgets-to-most-recent-the-fraught-family-ties-of-dee-rees/
Triple threat Lake Bell, actor/writer/director, is one of the Film Independent Spirit Award nominees for Best First Screenplay for In A World… The film—in which she stars and also directed—is a…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/spirit-awards-spotlight-lake-bell-reveals-why-she-never-wears-pajamas-to-work/
In case you haven’t noticed, it can be incredibly difficult to scrape together a living as a full-time working filmmaker. And sure: we all have film-school visions of Hollywood careers…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/branded-content-selling-out-or-getting-paid-to-do-what-you-love/
If you’ve ever wanted to grab a cup of Joe with today’s top film composers and pick their brains about the ins and outs movie music, the annual Coffee Talks…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/coffee-talks-film-composers-discuss-odd-career-paths-formal-training-classic-inspirations/
“That one’s currently my favorite!” So said writer/director Lynn Shelton, in January of this year, backstage before Night Three of Film Independent’s Directors Close-Up series. That night, Shelton was appearing…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/in-memoriam-remembering-lynn-shelton/
When you imagine being a successful indie documentarian, chances are you picture glitzy film festival premieres, studio distribution and prominent placement on top streaming platforms. But even as you allow…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/get-schooled-ten-things-know-educational-distribution-docs/