Location, location, location. If you’ve ever heard that mantra, it’s probably because you’ve spent some time in close proximity to a real estate agent. But you don’t need a snappy…
Today’s modern entertainment industry can seem daunting for an independent filmmaker looking to make his or her passion project. Whether it’s the freshman cinephile making their feature debut or the…
Anomalisa When: Now Playing Where: Theaters Directors: Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson Starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh, David Thewlis Why We’re Excited: In our opinion, the wildly imaginative Charlie Kaufman is already…
Despite substantial evidence to the contrary, filmmakers are really no different than normal people—especially around the holidays. Filmmakers fight their way through Black Friday crowds, get tipsy on too much…
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…
Grantland writer Kevin Lincoln summed up Ex Machina beautifully when he wrote, “It’s a story about artificial intelligence, not-artificial intelligence, trust, love, parenthood, sincerity, watching Oscar Isaac exercise, the ethics…
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…
Venturing into the festival circuit? Writers/directors/actors Jennifer Prediger and Jess Weixler of Apartment Troubles have been there and done that and are here to share their story of their own…
“Always control everything when you can,” said Boyhood writer/director Richard Linklater at last night’s Directors Close-Up. He and his longtime editor Sandra Adair were discussing a scene from Before Sunset,…
“Just make a movie.” That was Short Term 12 producer Asher Goldstein’s advice for first-time filmmakers at the production case studies panel at the Film Independent Forum in October: Just…
In this edition of our “Meet the Filmmaker” blog series, we hear from some of the Los Angeles Film Festival’s female directors, whose films will be showing in various sections…
At Film Independent’s Directors Close-Up series last night, writer Robin Swicord (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) moderated a panel discussion deconstructing one of the best-cast films of the year,…