Usually, the first Friday of each month is #FiscalFriday—a monthly round up of projects working their way through our Fiscal Sponsorship pipeline. But this month we have something different: a quick note from…
You may not be shooting a horror story, but you may feel like you’re living in one if you don’t plan for post-production during the pre-production process. “This is the…
The following piece originally ran on the website Dear Producer and is being shared here courtesy of that website’s editor Rebecca Green, a Film Independent Fellow and Creative Advisor. Excerpts from Dear…
While exotic scenery and attractive tax incentives may be enough to lure some TV and film shoots away from Los Angeles, plenty of work has stayed put, as countless filmmakers…
It’s no secret that we live in an increasingly environmentally conscious time, from plant-based diets to electric cars and paper straws. For anyone trying to fully commit to eco-friendly choices,…
Every other week on the blog, we dig into the archives from Film Independent Education and examine, in detail, one film’s production journey. Our hope is that filmmakers will take lessons from…
Many directors and I probably share the same idle daydream: A studio exec calls and says, “You simply must direct our $200 million screen epic. You’re the only one on…
Every other Thursday on the blog, we dig into the archives from Film Independent Education and examine, in detail, one film’s production journey. Our hope is that filmmakers will take lessons…
Movies are a mosaic of moving parts. But we don’t always see which parts, or who’s moving them. Each month in Detail Oriented, Su Fang Tham explores some of the more…
The late deadline for Film Independent Members to apply to the 2023 session of Project Involve—the program’s 30th anniversary!—is TOMORROW, September 7. To encourage you to finish up (or start!) those…
Film Independent is now accepting submissions for our quarterly Canon Filmmaker Award. Four times a year, we select one filmmaker to receive a Canon Cinema EOS package loaned to the…
Global Media Makers is proud of all of our Fellows who had an outstanding presence at this year’s Berlinale. Filmmakers arrived with projects in development, like Angolan Fellow Fradique Bastos,…