Each month in The Doc Life, Film Independent blogger Anthony Ferranti dives deep into the how’s and why’s of nonfiction filmmaking, featuring advice and hard-won insight from top veteran and emerging…
In case you haven’t noticed, it can be incredibly difficult to scrape together a living as a full-time working filmmaker. And sure: we all have film-school visions of Hollywood careers…
“A lesson I keep learning over and over again, is that the difference between the good ones and the great ones is hard work”—at least according to acclaimed multi-hyphenate filmmaker…
The 2019 Film Independent Forum finally kicked off last night–with a hefty dose of teen attitude—at Hollywood’s Harmony Gold Theater. After a pre-show cocktail hour replete with free ice cream,…
For cineastes, this weekend has been eagerly anticipated all year; a blockbuster Hollywood super-event jam-packed with unlikely heroes whose amazing feats of strength have been dazzling movie audiences for years….
Genre films—and horror films, in particular—have a unique ability to stir up high anxiety, extreme fear and panic in audiences. Heart pounding, eyes wide with doom, crouched at the edge…
Film vs. digital. Settled or not, it remains a contentious issue and one of the great everlasting debates of the modern film community. And it was just one of the…
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…
What better way to kick off Film Independent’s 2019 Directors Close-Up series than by discussing the art—and craft!—of casting and coaching actors? Especially courtesy of The Land of Steady Habits…
Next up in our regular series featuring key below-the-line positions, we focus on the line producer. A great line producer can make a huge difference in terms of getting a film…
Reams and reams of festival laurels. Effusive critical praise. The endorsement of a major streaming platform as well as one of America’s preeminent nonfiction filmmakers. By any measure, director Bing…
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…