Independent POV
Ready For Your Special Perks at LA Film Fest? (5/14/2013)
The Los Angeles Film Festival has long been known to mix Hollywood blockbusters with art-house experiments, and showcase everything in between. If you haven’t taken a moment to get lost in the massive (and, dare we say, impressive) film guide, now would be a good -- continue reading →
Just Added: Special Pre-Fest Screening of Man of Steel & More (5/08/2013)
Summertime means movie blockbuster season. As a summertime Festival, it’s only fitting that the LA Film Fest include at least one big summer blockbuster in our line-up. This year we decided to include two, starting June 12 with a special pre-Festival screening of Zack Snyder’s -- continue reading →
Announcing the 2013 LA Film Fest Line-Up (5/01/2013)
The line-up for the 2013 Los Angeles Film Festival was recently announced, narrowing down thousands of submitted films (5,428 to be exact) to nearly 200 feature films, shorts and music videos — and Festival Passholders get to pre-select their tickets starting this Friday, May 10, -- continue reading →
While You’re Waiting, Some LA Film Fest Films to Watch Now (4/30/2013)
After watching thousands of films (really!) and having hundreds of debates (okay, maybe just dozens), our programmers have finally made their selections for this year’s Los Angeles Film Festival! Unfortunately, you’ll have to wait just one more day before you can find out what they -- continue reading →
David O. Russell as LA Film Fest Guest Director & More (4/19/2013)
Announcing the Guest Director for LA Film Fest 2013 Academy Award®-nominated and Film Independent Spirit Award-winning filmmaker David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook, The Fighter) will serve as the Guest Director at this year’s LA Film Fest, where he’ll host a special screening of Three -- continue reading →
VIDEO: Danny Boyle is a City Boy, Distrusts the Countryside (4/18/2013)
If you’ve never attended one of our Film Independent at LACMA screenings, you’re missing out on not only great screenings of new and interesting films — many showing before they’ve even been released to the public — but also on the awesome conversations with filmmakers -- continue reading →
Social Media for #Filmmakers: Twitter 101 (4/16/2013)
By Jasmine Teran / Online Community Coordinator So you’re an indie filmmaker. You’ve barely scraped enough money from your day job, your crowd-funding campaign, your parents—we won’t judge—to shoot your movie, and now you’re expected to take on yet another job title to get people -- continue reading →
‘I’m So Excited’ for the LA Film Fest 2013 Opening Night Film (4/10/2013)
It’s that time of year again: time to get ready for the LA Film Fest! This year, the Festival kicks off with the North American Premiere of Pedro Almodóvar’s I’m So Excited! as the opening night film. “Film Independent and the Los Angeles Film Festival -- continue reading →
The Weekly FIND: Upstream Color, Trance, The Story of Luke (4/05/2013)
New & interesting in theaters and on DVD this week: In Theaters: Upstream Color When the micro-budget sci-fi Primer took the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2004, a cult classic was born. Nine years later, writer/director/producer Shane Carruth is back with the enigmatic Upstream -- continue reading →
Roger Ebert, 1942-2013 (4/04/2013)
Film Independent joins the entire film community in mourning the death of Roger Ebert. In addition to being one of our country’s most admired and respected critics – someone that so many of us grew up reading and watching, and from whom we learned about -- continue reading →
