Indie Films

Off- Hollywood: The Five Best Indie Movies To See This Month

Leonard Maltin | Posted 05.04.2012

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In Hollywood terms, the "summer" movie season used to begin on Memorial Day weekend; this year, it begins today, May 4, with the release of Marvel's The Avengers. This is also a cue for counter-programming.

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Crowd-funding: The Future of Indie Film?

Ben Arnon | Posted 05.30.2012

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Aspiring filmmakers have always struggled to find a way to get their projects made, from racking-up credit card bills to persuading investors that their film is the next Paranormal Activity.

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The Disposable Filmmaker

Carlton Evans | Posted 05.16.2012

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Both Hollywood and independents are feeling commercial pressures more than ever in an increasingly crowded marketplace. What lessons can the industry learn from the disposable filmmaker?

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Church Aims To Buy, Close Historic Indie Movie House

Posted 03.13.2012

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The historic Portage Theater, a revered independent movie house that is an iconic landmark of the Chicago's Portage Park neighborhood, will see big ch...

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Sundance Film Receives Huge Ovation, Biggest Sale Of The Festival

The Huffington Post | Lucas Kavner | Posted 01.27.2012

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John Hawkes is no stranger to Sundance. Though he's still not quite a household name, he's managed to achieve a certain indie ubiquity in Park City ov...

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How A Sundance Film Finds Life Beyond The Festival

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 03.28.2012

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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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What's So Strange About the Johnsons?

Malcolm Harris | Posted 02.18.2012

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Over the past few weeks a short film entitled The Strange Thing About the Johnsons has been creating quite a stir on the internet. This stir has African Americans, in particular, choosing sides between a white filmmaker's freedom of expression and a community's rejection of ownership.

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Filmmaker Documents Life On Tour With A Punk Band

HuffingtonPost.com | Joseph Erbentraut | Posted 01.30.2012

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When Chicago filmmaker Jeremy Tubbs hit the road with his friends, punk band The Downtown Struts, he likely didn't expect their first U.S. tour would ...

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WATCH: Local Film 'Genrefinity' Aims For Kevin Smith-Style Laughs

HuffingtonPost.com | Joseph Erbentraut | Posted 12.23.2011

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In 2009, Chicago filmmaker Marc Buhmann, frustrated with the lack of a one-stop-shop news outlet for fans of genre (horror, sci-fi, fantasy), got toge...

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'Littlerock' Star Plays Himself On Screen

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 10.19.2011

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What would it be like to play a version of yourself on screen? Plenty of reality stars blast into our living rooms as "themselves" each night, but the...

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Vintage Crusader Spotlight: An Interview with Alexandra Roxo, Director of Mary Marie

Mary Kincaid | Posted 09.19.2011

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Alexandra Roxo talked to Zuburbia about why she felt it was important to use vintage clothing in her new film Mary Marie, how vintage fits into her own life and how important costume choices are for both actors and directors.

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Brit Marling: Indie's New Darling

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 09.13.2011

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Brit Marling, the star and co-writer of the new sci-fi indie drama, "Another Earth," isn't used to the whole interview thing yet. "This is like mu...

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Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast: John Carpenter's The Ward & Zookeeper

Dan Persons | Posted 09.12.2011

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How does a show handle the situation where two, exciting films are released on the same weekend? We don't know, but this weekend we saw John Carpenter's The Ward and Zookeeper, so we decided to cover both of those instead.

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First 'The Wrestler', Then 'The Fighter', Now, 'The Eater'

HuffingtonPost.com | David Moye | Posted 11.15.2011

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The Fighter, The Wrestler and so many other sports films have captured the thrill of victory, but until now, none has chronicled the agony of indigest...

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Indie Film Companies Busted For Investment Scam

AP | Posted 08.18.2011

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LOS ANGELES -- Eighteen people from Southern California and Florida are facing federal charges in an alleged telemarketing scam that solicited more th...

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Con Games: Aspen Shortsfest Rock Short Film

Michael Conniff | Posted 06.11.2011

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If there's a better evening of entertainment in a dark venue than Aspen Shortsfest then I've never seen it.

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How to Make Crowd-Funding Work for Filmmakers: Highlights from the Film Finance Forum: Part 2

Jeff Steele | Posted 05.25.2011

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I may be a financier who works within the traditional film finance model, but I'm not traditional. In other words, I like disruption and I'm open to change. Example: Crowd-funded filmmaking.

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Oscars and Financing -- Why 'A-list' Isn't 'Always-List'

Jeff Steele | Posted 05.25.2011

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With the Academy Awards just behind us, we should discuss what "A-List" means and more importantly, what effect it has on actually getting a film made...

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Power to the People: The Democratization of Film

Jeff Steele | Posted 05.25.2011

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The corollary to anybody being able to shoot a movie is that now everybody wants to make a movie. But no matter how easy or cheap it is to make a movie, it still requires capital.

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Chinese Film Funds: A Cookie Without a Fortune

Jeff Steele | Posted 05.25.2011

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It seems you don't have to swing a cat very far to find a project that has Chinese money attached. What's the lowdown on this foreign dough and is it for real?

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The 11th Annual Moondance Film Festival Returns To Boulder

Andrea Rael | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tragedies often serve as the most effective catalysts for meaningful social discussion. Such was the case in 1999, when--after the massacre at Columb...

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Matt Osborne | Posted 05.25.2011

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If Robert Gibbs had walked around Las Vegas last week talking to the professional left, he would have learned what I did: that progressives, liberals, and Democrats are as diverse as the day is long.

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Will 3-D Kill the Indie Film?

Jeff Steele | Posted 05.25.2011

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indie films are competing for distribution and exhibition screens with big budget studio movies and those movies are benefiting from nifty advances in technology; primarily, innovations in 3-D.

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Indie Filmmaking Is a Marathon, Not a Sprint

Abe Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011

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I wrote the first draft script forBad Batch, my first feature, about 3 years ago. I joined a writer's group in which the challenge was to write a full screenplay in 2 weeks. This got my ass in gear to write something I knew I eventually would want to direct on a tight budget.

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"Precious" Sweeps Indie Spirit Awards (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

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"Precious" swept the 25th Film Independent Spirit Awards on Friday, nabbing awards in each of the five categories it was nominated, including Best Pic...

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