The Support Report: What Film Independent Did in 2017
Spend too much time watching the news or scrolling through Twitter and it can seem as if 2017 has been a rough year. But! The good news is that you…
Spend too much time watching the news or scrolling through Twitter and it can seem as if 2017 has been a rough year. But! The good news is that you…
It may seem counterintuitive when talking about art house theaters, but this month’s Theater Crawl puts us in mind of Marvel’s The Avengers. Independent theater operators—like the ones we profile here—are…
After two years of pouring through 70.28 million frames across 813 hours and 51 minutes of raw footage from principal photography, and then waiting patiently for another year through multiple…
“Surround yourself with like-minded people… You can help each other, as what happened with me. Talent obviates the odds. Talent changes everything.” Iron Man 3 director Shane Black on getting…
Invariably, any hit film worth its mainstream marketing budget is going to spin-off its fair share of derivative media and merchandise: souvenir posters, pins, stickers, t-shirts, glassware, pewter statuary, etc.—any…
Regulators… Mount up! Let me hear you say Ooo, ahh/summertime in the LBC! Okay, well, technically DTLA—but you get it. On the clear black night of Day Three at the…
“The independent film community is used to being scrappy. This is an amazing time for that,” says Col Needham, founder and CEO of indispensible online film resource IMDb, the world’s…
Each year, the Film Independent Spirit Awards give the Someone to Watch Award to an emerging filmmaker of singular vision. In this column, film critic David Bax revisits some of the grant’s…
Film Independent’s Fiscal Sponsorship program opens the door to nonprofit funding for independent filmmakers and media artists. Donate today and help bring Reaching New Heights: Fazlur Rahman Khan and the…
Film Independent, the nonprofit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards and Film Independent Presents – the year-round program offering screenings, conversations and other unique cinematic…
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NOTE: this entry in our monthly The Doc Life column originally ran in January of this year. The 2019 Film Independent Documentary Lab is now accepting submissions. The Non-Member deadline is December…