Just eight days left until the LA Film Fest kicks off—and just nine days left to apply for Film Independent’s Panavision Grant! In celebration of both, we spoke to Denise…
Behind every (fill in the blank) great/glorious/funny/scary/sad story told on film is an equally great/glorious/funny/scary (yes, probably sometimes) sad story: the one about how the whole thing went from being an idea…
Note: spoilers ahead Krisha, an astounding first feature made on a shoestring budget, won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award for best narrative feature at this year’s SXSW…
SHORT TERM 12 is an award-winning drama about a young woman who works as a supervisor at a teen group home and struggles to care for her teenage patients while…
Last night, the fourth season of the Film Independent at LACMA Series kicked off with a screening of The Skeleton Twins, followed by a lively Q&A with co-writer/director Craig Johnson…
Last week, Sundance Film Festival programmers Lisa Ogdie and Kim Yutani stopped by Film Independent to do a Q&A with our members, offering insight into the selection process as well…
“We believe it is Panavision’s obligation to seed the future of this industry,” says Bob Harvey, EVP Global Sales and Marketing, Panavision. One way they do this is by supporting…
With the release of Zach Braff’s Kickstarter-funded sophomore feature Wish I Was Here and, of course, the successful fundraising of over $50,000 for what is evidently a much-needed bowl of…
Attendees of the first Gala screening of the 2014 Los Angeles Film Festival were treated to one of the season’s anticipated releases: Ira Sachs’ Love Is Strange starring John Lithgow…
Every filmmaker is a storyteller with two stories to tell: the one he’s telling on film and the one about how the film got made. We’ve asked our Festival filmmakers…
Awards in hand, the 2014 Film Independent Spirit Award winners stepped backstage this past Saturday to make their way into the press tent. Off stage, out of the spotlight, they…
As we’ve begun ramping up and counting down to our own cine-bration (132 days to the Los Angeles Film Festival—rah!), we decided to survey filmmakers who survived Sundance on their…