Independent Film

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

Dan Mecca | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Cannes 2012, Cannes Film Festival 2012, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, 65th-Cannes-Film-Festival, Independent Film, Foreign Films, Entertainment News
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.

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

Michael Varrati | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: New Beverly Theater, Independent Film, Stuart Gordon, Revivial Movies, The New Beverly, Independent Theater, Out of Print Documentary, Out of Print, Julia Marchese, Julia Marchese Out of Print, Julia Marchese Interview, Julia Marchese New Beverly, Entertainment News
Michael Varrati

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

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Lloyd Kaufman: Independent Cinema's True Champion

Michael Varrati | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Troma, Independent Film, Lloyd Kaufman, Film, Filmmaker, Indie Film, Indie Filmmakers, Movies, Tromadance, Entertainment News
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.

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When Dreams and Reality Collide

Jacob Devaney | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Healthy Living Health News, Social Media, Dreams, Independent Film, Inspiration, Advertising, Children, Psychology, Laughter, Film, Imagination, Spirituality, Culture, Culture News
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.

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Like To Watch? This Week In Indie Cinema

The Huffington Post | Christiana Lilly | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: The Gold Rush, Monsieur Lazhar, O Cinema, In Darkness, We Have a Pope, Bob Marley, Video, Independent Film, Cinema Paradiso Fort Lauderdale, Marley, Miami Culture, Coral-Gables-Art-Cinema, Charlie Chaplain, Miami-Beach-Cinematheque, Miami News

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...

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Crowdfunding 201: Best Friends Forever

Turnstyle | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: DIY Film, Independent Film, Film, Crowdfunding, Brea Grant, Kickstarter, Crowd-Funding, Crowd Funding, Arts News
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 ...

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Why Hollywood Studios Don't Matter Anymore

Marshall Fine | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Hollywood Studios, Hollywood, Independent Film, Oscars, Entertainment News
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.

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

Roya Rastegar | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Sundance Film Festival 2012, Comedies, Sundance Film Festival, Independent Film, Sundance, Entertainment News
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.

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

Leonard Maltin | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Movie Reviews, Art, Independent Film, Coriolanus, On the Bowery, Film, Albert Nobbs, Declarations of War, Dvd Reviews, Project Nim Film, Arts News
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 ...

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Santiago Shines at Evening of Dreams

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Felix Martiz, Independent Film, Downtown Independent, Downtown Independent Movie Theater, Santiago Movie, Santiago Film, The Terrain Film, The Terrain, Entertainment News
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...

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Megan Arellano

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Megan Arellano | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Dc Impact, Kickstarter, Brendan Canty, Joblessness, D.C. Central Kitchen, Christoph Green, Robert Egger, Culinary-Job-Training-Programs, Video, Unemployment, Independent Film, Filmmaking, Trixie-Films, Liberation, D.C., DC News

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...

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

Andrew Shapter | Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Martina Niland, Rebecca Fulton, Rose Troche, Janet Pierson, Tracy Marino, Women in Film, Karin Chien, Independent Film, Oscars, Oscars 2012, Women Filmmakers, Women Film Directors, Academy Awards 2012, Women Directors, Video, Entertainment News
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...

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Lucas Kavner

How A Sundance Film Finds Life Beyond The Festival

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Sundance Lab, Colin Trevorrow, Sarah Ramos, Sundance Film Festival, Michael Mohan, Film Festivals, The Arm, Jessie Ennis, Indie Films, Video, Independent Film, Brie Larson, Sundance 2012, Sundance, Sundance Film Festival 2012, Safety Not Guaranteed, Save the Date, Culture News

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...

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Sundance 2012: Sleepwalk With Me

Heather Donahue | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Independent Film, Sundance Film Festival, Mike Birbiglia Sleepwalk With Me, Sleepwalking, Ira Glass, Wbez, This American Life, Sleep Disorders, Heather-Donahue, Comedy, Sundance 2012, Arts News
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.

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Iconic Star Actor Smacks Mitt Romney, Conservatives In Sundance Speech

Posted 03.21.2012

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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...

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Stranger Danger Dispelled By Bears And Kindness

Patience Salgado | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Kindness, Greg Gano, Independent Film, Sarah Sellman, Strangers, American Bear, Kickstarter, Video, Good News News
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.

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99% -- The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film

Melissa Webster | Posted 03.07.2012

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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.

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WATCH: Harmony Korine's Surreal Fashion Short

Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Proenza Schouler, Video, Independent Film, Harmony Korine, Proenza-Schouler-Fall-2011, Kids Film, Fashion, Paris Fashion Week, Indie Film, Gummo, Harmony Korine Gummo, Arts News

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...

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

Kristin McCracken | Posted 02.26.2012

Read More: Independent Film, Marsha Dietlein Bennett, Tribeca Film, Caitlin FitzGerald, Max Baker, Newlyweds, New York, Edward Burns, Kerry Bishe, Entertainment News
Kristin McCracken

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

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

Marshall Fine | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Ron Howard, Peter Fonda, Sharktopus, Roger Corman, Martin Scorsese, John Sayles, Kurosawa, Fellini, Oscar, Corman?S World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel, Hollywood, Marshall Fine Movie Review, New World Pictures, Movies, Dinoshark, Movie Reviews, Marshall Fine, Independent Film, American International Pictures, Peter Bogdanovich, Corman?S World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel Movie Review, Tom Snyder, Jonathan Demme, Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro, Entertainment News
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...

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

Kristin McCracken | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Blue Oyster Cult, Bobby Cannavale, Jill Hennessy, Independent Film, Ron Eldard, Roadie, Vod, Michael Cuesta, Video, Entertainment News
Kristin McCracken

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

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Silicon Valley Ready To Occupy Hollywood

Gina Hall | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Silicon Valley Film Industry, Silicon Valley Hollywood, Crowdsourcing Films, Tech Startups, Film Distribution, Independent Film Distribution, Independent Film, Tech and Film, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles News
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.

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New Delhi's Last Magicians Colony

Atlas Obscura | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Adam Weber, Josh Cogan, Film, Wonder, Curiosity, Kickstarter, Tomorrow We Disappear, India, Travel, Jim Goldblum, Atlas Obscura, Magic, Independent Film, Travel News
Atlas Obscura

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

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Soul Man: Alessandro Nivola in Janie Jones

Kristin McCracken | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Janie Jones, Independent Film, Rock-N-Roll, Alessandro Nivola, Abigail Breslin, David M. Rosenthal, Elisabeth Shue, Entertainment News
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.

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Studying the Economics of Independent Film: A Proposal

Josh Welsh | Posted 12.22.2011

Read More: Film Forum, Film Festival, Independent Film, Film Independent Forum, Film Independent, Independent Film Distribution, Film Industry, Indie Film, Los Angeles News
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.

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