Independent Film

Cannes Report: As the Market Grows, We Wait for the Great One

Dan Mecca | Posted 05.21.2012

Dan Mecca

As Big Hollywood continues to make fewer films, festivals like Cannes mean more and more. So stay tuned, because the latest flick from the Twilight babe and the new one from the The Lucky One hunk are here.

Saving a Theater With Film: Julia Marchese's Fight for the New Beverly

Michael Varrati | Posted 05.18.2012

Michael Varrati

Movies are big affairs, and because of this, so too are the screens on which they are meant to be seen.

Lloyd Kaufman: Independent Cinema's True Champion

Michael Varrati | Posted 05.04.2012

Michael Varrati

This weekend in the Springsteen-lauded town of Asbury Park, New Jersey, a convergence of freaks, geeks, and celebrities will occur to celebrate all things cinema.

When Dreams and Reality Collide

Jacob Devaney | Posted 05.02.2012

Jacob Devaney

Something may be real for us, but not validated by the outside world, and all of us experience this feeling at some point. We live in a reality that is surrounded by mysteries, but our culture is obsessed with explaining them away, so we find peace in the mystery of our dreams.

Like To Watch? This Week In Indie Cinema

The Huffington Post | Christiana Lilly | Posted 05.21.2012

This week, at Miami Beach Cinematheque, the humorous but enlightening Italian movie "We Have A Pope" tells the story of a cardinal who, despite his pr...

Crowdfunding 201: Best Friends Forever

Turnstyle | Posted 04.20.2012

Turnstyle

By: Lucas McNelly Like almost everything else in my life over the last couple of years, this is an article that starts on Twitter. If you don't have ...

Why Hollywood Studios Don't Matter Anymore

Marshall Fine | Posted 04.28.2012

Marshall Fine

The Hollywood studios don't matter anymore to serious movie lovers. They've given up on making anything but expensive tent-pole movies or genre exercises that come with stars and a restrained budget.

Sundance 2012: Year of the Comedy (It's Complicated)

Roya Rastegar | Posted 04.09.2012

Roya Rastegar

An unprecedented number of comedies appeared in the 2012 Sundance Film Festival line-up, marking a substantial shift in the direction of American independent film.

OFF-HOLLYWOOD: The Five Best Indie Movies To See This Month

Leonard Maltin | Posted 04.03.2012

Leonard Maltin

By Leonard Maltin After the mad rush of December releases, the early months of the new year are usually fallow--except for films that opened briefly ...

Santiago Shines at Evening of Dreams

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 04.03.2012

Charles Karel Bouley

Creativity was everywhere; it was heavy in the air like condensation. Throughout the room, the entire building, creative people mixed, mingled, each t...

Megan Arellano

D.C. Central Kitchen Film Project Nets $40,000 Funds

HuffingtonPost.com | Megan Arellano | Posted 02.01.2012

WASHINGTON -- With just six hours before its deadline, Trixie Films secured $40,000 in Kickstarter funding to film a documentary about D.C. Central Ki...

Oscar Season Is Here: So We Ask "Does Gender Matter?"

Andrew Shapter | Posted 01.28.2012

Andrew Shapter

It's true there's no business like show business. Yet film and television productions embody cultural art forms and also represent a team sport. Story...

Lucas Kavner

How A Sundance Film Finds Life Beyond The Festival

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 03.28.2012

With so much going on, so much to see and hear and ogle, so many Paris Hilton sightings and free vodka sodas, it can be easy to forget the real purpos...

Sundance 2012: Sleepwalk With Me

Heather Donahue | Posted 03.26.2012

Heather Donahue

As you might expect from a film co-produced by WBEZ Chicago's This American Life, Sleepwalk With Me is an autobiographically-inspired film that is intimate, funny and sincere.

Iconic Star Actor Smacks Mitt Romney, Conservatives In Sundance Speech

Posted 03.21.2012

Robert Redford has become well known for his political activism on behalf of the environment (including as a HuffPost blogger), but in his speech at t...

Stranger Danger Dispelled By Bears And Kindness

Patience Salgado | Posted 03.13.2012

Patience Salgado

2012-01-11-videopull.jpgFilmmakers Sarah Sellman and Greg Grano spent last summer traveling the country relying solely on the kindness of strangers for a place to sleep each night and maybe an occasional dinner.

99% -- The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film

Melissa Webster | Posted 03.07.2012

Melissa Webster

This idea of a movement that is all-inclusive, all-respectful, all, well, everything, inspired the documentary 99%, the collaborative film about Occupy Wall Street as unique and diverse as the movement itself.

WATCH: Harmony Korine's Surreal Fashion Short

Posted 02.28.2012

Harmony Korine, the off-beat filmmaker that danced strangely into our hearts with films like "Kids" and "Gummo", created a short for fashion line Proe...

I'd Call That a Success: Ed Burns on Newlyweds

Kristin McCracken | Posted 02.26.2012

Kristin McCracken

As his 10th feature film hits VOD, the indie pioneer talks about marriage, distribution, and his "puzzling" way of making movies.

Movie review: Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel

Marshall Fine | Posted 02.13.2012

Marshall Fine

It's hard to believe no one has done a film tribute to Roger Corman before Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel, Alex Stapleton's loving time...

Can't Find My Way Home: Michael Cuesta on Roadie

Kristin McCracken | Posted 01.30.2012

Kristin McCracken

Channeling his love of '70s rock, Michael Cuesta explores the silver lining in one man's failed future in Roadie.

Silicon Valley Ready To Occupy Hollywood

Gina Hall | Posted 01.18.2012

Gina Hall

They're going to take over. If you want to suss one out, you have to listen for them. Instead of pitching ideas for pilots and features, they're hyping their next iPad app, social media site, mobile game or distribution platform.

New Delhi's Last Magicians Colony

Atlas Obscura | Posted 01.04.2012

Atlas Obscura

Since then, New Delhi's magicians, puppeteers, and acrobats have called the slum, the Kathputli Colony, their home.

Soul Man: Alessandro Nivola in Janie Jones

Kristin McCracken | Posted 12.28.2011

Kristin McCracken

The star of David M. Rosenthal's rock indie Janie Jones can act, but his soulful duets with Abigail Breslin will also leave you jonesing for the album.

Studying the Economics of Independent Film: A Proposal

Josh Welsh | Posted 12.22.2011

Josh Welsh

While it's obviously true that it's hard for many independent filmmakers to sustain a career doing what they love, it is simply false that there's no money in independent film.