What is a movie's sell-by date? Studios give tremendous care to the timing of a release date, taking into account competitive films, holidays, market analysis, and executive instincts above my paygrade.

Hollywood's appetite for adaptations, remakes and sequels is growing. But the absence of mid-budget films from lists of the world's highest-grossing films indicates that Hollywood's model is changing.

This week at Sundance, director Kevin Smith stuck it to the studios and bought his own flick for $20. Indie-filmmaking 2.0? You be the judge.

Recently I attended my first American Film Market (AFM) in Santa Monica, CA. I'd never been to anything quite like AFM, the meeting place for the Amer...

In movies, marijuana is depicted either a hilarious holy grail or a gateway to harder, darker substances.

If you really want to make features, just do it. Make one within your means right now, and accept that even once you're done your first, you're still a rookie in the game.

More and more people are watching content on mobile devices. If your film doesn't need to play in a large theater with surround sound, why not get people watching on their phones?

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.

If you are not already doing so, please support content by paying for it in some way. Buy a DVD, buy a t-shirt, contribute to a film's tip jar, or pay for a download.

it is more possible than ever for audiences to connect directly with independent filmmakers, so his list is to introduce 10 gifts that you can give for Christmas to help support independent film.

There are networks of digital street teams in the music world so that fans can earn swag and back stage passes by how much social networking and promotion they do for the bands. Why not apply this model to film?

The hardworking folks at The Age of Stupid have done with limited means what corporations spend millions of dollars trying to do: create a world wide cinematic event.

Mark Gill, former head of Warner Independent, one of the recent casualties of independent film's radically changing landscape, explained: "The world is falling apart in independent cinema."