In this special guest post originally published in 2020, Michael Govier and Will McCormack talk about the making of their Best Animated Short winner If Anything Happens I Love You. The short…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/fiscal-spotlight-avocado-sandwiches-or-how-to-get-your-short-film-on-netflix/
Movies are a mosaic of moving parts. But we donât always see which parts, or whoâs moving them. Each month in Detail Oriented, Su Fang Tham explores some of the more…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/detail-oriented-the-stop-motion-master-who-brought-wes-andersons-isle-of-dogs-to-life/
Day Two of the 2022 Film Independent Forum was an action-packed day of storytelling, knowledge sharing, and celebrating fresh voices with fresh ideas. Between the evening livestreamed discussion with Cloud…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/forum-2022-day-2-meaningful-indigenous-representation-in-media-and-achieving-sustainable-filmmaking/
Director: Caveh Zahedi Producers: Caveh Zahedi, Greg Watkins Budget: $450,000 Production Companies: Reinventing The Wheel Financing: One investor (an aquaintenance of Cavehâs); Grants: Creative Capital, San Francisco Arts Council, Guggenheim…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/i-am-a-sex-addict/
On March 29, the film world lost one of the few remaining greats of the French New Wave: Agnès Varda. Vardaâs eclectic career spanned over six decades and was experiencing…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/remembering-agnes-vardas-independent-spirit-with-five-must-watch-films/
Who wouldnât love to get to peer inside the mind of J.J. Abrams? In a recent Master Class at the Los Angeles Film Festival, we did the next best thing:…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/j-j-abrams-long-time-editors-reveal-how-to-help-develop-characters-in-the-editing-room/
In honor of this weekendâs release of the highly anticipated adaptation of Lois Lowryâs beloved YA novel The Giver, weâve rounded up some of the best quotes about filmmaking to…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/words-of-wisdom-on-filmmaking-from-the-dude-himself/
The most rewarding day for a filmmaker is the one when the theater lights go dim and those bits of an idea first hatched monthsâif not years beforeâget projected, fully formed…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/congrats-to-the-14-film-independent-fellows-8-members-screening-at-tribeca/
Itâs the oldest tip in the book: Write what you know. This weekend, when the LA Film Fest hosted its Coffee Talks series, the panel of screenwriters gave their best…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/write-what-you-know-top-screenwriters-delve-into-what-really-works-and-why/
When people ask me what my favorite decade is for movies and music, I usually say the 1980s. And whenever I say this, the responseâparticularly from friends and loved ones…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/flashbackfriday-praise-independent-cinema-1980s/
Editor’s Note: the below interview with filmmaker Noah Hutton first ran last year in conjunction with the release of Lapsis, a 2021 Film Independent Spirit Award Best First Screenplay nominee….
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/interview-lapsis-filmmaker-noah-hutton-talks-labor-tech-and-lived-ethics/
Includes a conversation with Taraji P. Henson and writer/director/producer Robin Bissell Film Independent Presents – in partnership with KCRW Based on a true story, Best of Enemies centers on the…
https://www.filmindependent.org/events/free-members-only-screening-best-of-enemies/