If you were born roughly between the years 1970 and 1993, then there’s a good chance that the music video has been your life’s most formative unit of artistic expression….
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/must-list-8-music-videos-yesteryear-paved-way-modern-moviemaking/
This past summer, right around the time the Los Angeles Film Festival screened the US premiere of Adam Rifkin’s Giuseppe Makes a Movie, the quirkily beautiful doc about “trailer-park auteur”…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/hey-risk-taking-filmmakers-theres-a-new-distribution-company-looking-for-you/
For adults, the life of a modern teenager can seem profoundly unfathomable. Part of this is due to the rapidly accumulating cognitive fog that, for the grown-up brain, tends to…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/meet-the-2023-film-independent-future-filmmakers-short-film-showcase-coming-this-saturday/
Phew! Honestly, we’re not used to staying up this late to wrap our awards season (although to be fair, we have been this drunk). But if nothing else, 2020/21 has…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/here-are-the-winners-of-the-2021-film-independent-spirit-award-winners/
Narrative Feature Writer/Director: Emily Dell Producer: Elizabeth Dell Budget: Around $700K Financing: Private Equity Production: 24 days/Los Angeles/July 2007 Shooting Format: Super 16mm Screening Format: HD Story: A story about…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/case-study-b-girl/
Happy May Day, everybody! And not to distract from your Dionysian reverie frolicking around the pole or anything, but the fact that today is May 1 means that the non-Member…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/guest-post-producing-lab-fellow-maria-altamirano-goes-from-festival-volunteer-to-sundance-superstar/
The below piece originally ran in August of Last year. The non-Member deadline to apply to the 2020 Film Independent Directing Lab is October 22. Below, 2018 Directing Lab Fellow Ryan Velásquez…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/guest-post-cant-become-better-director-not-directing/
To celebrate the end of another great year in independent film, Film Independent is re-posting some of our favorite blogs of 2023. And here’s a reminder: there’s still time to…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/watch-five-los-angeles-shorts-by-our-global-media-makers-fellows/
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…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/greta-gerwig-brings-back-home-lady-bird/
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following article originally ran on our blog in August of last year. We’re republishing it here. Special thanks to author Jayna Gavieres, Film Independent blogger. SUBMITTING TO SUNDANCE Each…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/the-twelve-things-you-should-know-before-submitting-to-sundance/
With the 2017 LA Film Festival looming perilously close (June 14-22!) so too does our annual Future Filmmakers Showcase—a special screening of short films made by talented high school students…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/meet-future-filmmakers-auteur-teens-take-shorts-2017-la-film-festival/
The following guest post comes to us courtesy of Shazia Iqbal, Indian filmmaker and 2019 Global Media Makers Fellow. Iqbal participated in GMM’s LA Residency in 2019 with her narrative…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/guest-post-the-muslim-narrative-in-hindi-cinema-20-great-examples/