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indieWIRE: Leonard Maltin On His Surprising Career and His 2011 Film Guide (07/30/10)
In the realm of prominent American film critics and historians, Leonard Maltin is royalty. He’s known most widely throughout the country as the bespectacled and bearded Entertainment Tonight reside...
LA Times: Jay Roach on life before he was a star director: 'It's good to learn to be miserable' (07/30/10)
Hollywood has always been madly in love with its boy wonders. The mythology of show business is all about celebrating the wondrous tales of overnight stardom. Everyone knows the stories behind ...
The Wrap: Richard Branson to Launch Film & TV Production Company (07/30/10)
Richard Branson is getting into the film business. The mogul announced on Friday the launch of Virgin Produced, a film and television development company that’s billed as a joint venture between...

FIND INTERVIEW: Director J Blakeson on The Disappearance of Alice Creed (07/29/10)
British filmmaker J Blakeson knew getting financing to direct his first film would be tough. So he set out to write a tense, economical, and tight story about a kidnapped girl and the complicated in...
LEGAL EASE: I wrote a pilot for a production company, they didn't bite, now I want to make a movie...am I clear? (07/27/10)
Q: I wrote a pilot script for a potential TV project plus two initial scripts. An established production company bought all the rights in the pilot and scripts with the idea that it would hire me to...
INDIE FILM Q & A with Heidi Van Lier: Heidi says goodbye and thank you. (07/27/10)
Q: NO WAY!! HEIDI, IS THIS YOUR LAST BLOG AT FILM INDEPENDENT?! A: Yes, sadly, this is my last blog here. It has been a good run of over a year and a half and now, like all good things, it i...

Insider Connect (08/03/10)
Crew up. Get involved. Find Community. Filmmakers, this is your chanceto build relationships with like-minded members. Whether you have afilm project to promote or you're looking to work in the film i...
Membership Orientation (08/03/10)
This is your chance to discover everything that Film Independent (FIND) Membership has to offer. Whether you're looking into membership for the first time or you've been a member for years, we'll co...
FIND FILM SERIES: The Disappearance of Alice Creed (08/03/10)
Written and directed by J Blakeson Produced by Adrian Sturges The Disappearance of Alice Creed is a British thriller about the kidnapping of Alice, the daughter of a mi...