The Doc Life: Must-See Documentaries from 2018
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…
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From the Archives: Project Involve Short ‘Debris’ Dramatizes US-Mexico Border Plight
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following article originally ran in June of 2018 and is being republished here. Applications to Project Involve 202o are now open. To read our more recent interview with filmmaker…
‘Half the Picture’ Explores Hollywood’s Director Gender Gap
Google the term “film director” and look at the image results. What do you see? The answer is… a collection of white male faces. What you don’t see, with few…
Announcing the 2018 Directing Lab Fellows: Diverse Stories and Storytellers
Put simply, filmmaking is really just a matter of deciding what’s in the frame and what isn’t. As a director, you have two things: A) a story to tell and…
This is How We Do It: Rejection, Recovery and Getting Back to Work
iIn This Is How We Do It writer Cortney Matz mines her own frustrations to explore issues of productivity, coming away with helpful thoughts on finally finishing that pesky creative project and whatever…
Film Independent’s Top Ten Blogs of 2017
Somehow yet another year has come and gone. But even as Baby New Year holds her chubby foot aloft, poised to boot its predecessor off the ledge and into the…
Greta Gerwig Brings it All Back Home with ‘Lady Bird’
On November 2, Film Independent at LACMA screened Greta Gerwig’s acclaimed directorial debut Lady Bird in front of a packed house—followed by an engaging post-screening discussion with Gerwig moderated by…
The Must-List: Five Film-Related Beach Reads for Relaxing on the Fourth of July
It’s the 4th of July. Summer has just begun and there’s still plenty of time left on the calendar to escape to the nearest beach, reservoir, pool, estuary or fjord for…
Making Your First 360 Video? Here are 10 Important Things to Keep in Mind.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following blog originally ran on filmindependent.org earlier this year. We’re republishing it here, with minor edits to the original text. Special thanks to the author Matt Warren. MAKING…
ICYMI: Seven of Our Favorite Big-Budget Summer Blockbusters
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following article originally ran in 2017 and is being republished here, with the Fourth of July looming looming and along with the ongoing, reemergent summer movie season….
Consumed: Doc Lab’s Andrew Droz Palermo on Screengrabs, Cinematography and New Pants
Twice a month in Consumed, our Film Independent Fellows take a break from creating to talk about their reading, watching, listening and sometimes even eating habits and what informs their work…
Directing Lab Fellow Elena Greenlee on Finding Inspiration and Protecting Creative Space
Twice a month in Consumed, our Film Independent Fellows take a break from creating to talk about their reading, watching, listening and sometimes even eating habits, and what informs their work…