Last year, Film Independent and the U.S. Department of State partnered together to launch Global Media Makers, an innovative mentoring initiative connecting visual storytellers from around the world with leading…
How many times in life have you pretended to stab someone? The answer (hopefully) is probably not that many. But if you have, chances are these mock attacks included you…
Day Three of the 2016 Film Independent Forum at the Directors Guild in Los Angles hosted web creators Burnie Burns (Rooster Teeth Productions), Rafi Fine (Fine Brothers Entertainment) and Todd…
EDITOR’S NOTE: The below recap originally ran as part of our coverage of the 2016 Film Independent Forum. This year’s Forum takes place April 26-28. Click here to see a complete schedule and…
Two of this year’s most critically acclaimed indies—Andrew Ahn’s Spa Night and Dennis Hauck’s Too Late—took center stage on Day Two of the 2016 Film Independent Forum. The films were part…
Hard to believe, but Oprah Winfrey has been steadily reinventing television for nearly three decades. First, as the creator and host of the groundbreaking Oprah Winfrey Show, which swiftly transcended…
Earlier this summer, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (aka the folks who hand out the Oscars each year) took the unprecedented step of adding 683 new members…
For most people, the most widely accepted definition of “independent film” is any sort of movie made outside (or largely outside) the Hollywood studio system. Many of our most critically…
For Ryan Coogler, the importance of sound in cinema didn’t hit him immediately. “I definitely learned in school,” he said prior to delving deeper into the subject during the LA…
In their lowest form, documentaries about making movies can be little more than glorified EPK packages—just another bland, uncritical promo tool for suckering consumers and separating them from their hard-fought…
Film Independent’s 2016 Directors Close-Up series kicked off Wednesday, February 3 at the Landmark with a look under the hood of The End of the Tour—one of 2015’s most deceptively complicated…
Successful directors have the same insecurities as everyone else. It’s surprising, but it’s true. With high budget, high profile films under their belts one would assume that directors like Colin…