Rick Alverson’s The Comedy, starring Tim Heidecker, is now available on VOD and digital platforms. We spoke to the pair about the millennial generation, passivity and isolation in the modern age, and those infamous walkouts at Sundance.

By Karen Kemmerle

One of the scariest movies at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival had nothing to do with ghosts or goblins. Rather, Sexy Baby is a documentary that examines how our hyper-sexualized society is affecting girls and women of all ages. See it this weekend in NY and LA.

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James Westby [Film Geek (2006), The Auteur (2008), Rid of Me (2011)] is an independent filmmaker in Portland, Oregon. He waxes nostalgic about his video store experiences—as both customer and employee—which set the stage for his latest project.

By James Westby

What happens when a 19th century bodyguard is sent 150 years into the future to help with an indie film’s marketing campaign? He holsters his gun and sits down at the keyboard: meet Ward Hill Lamon.

By Brad Cook

What matters in today’s film distribution models? The producer of Little League doc “Boys of Summer” considers the questions of shelf life, seasonality, and creating a long tail audience.

By Ariana Garfinkel

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By Karen Kemmerle

In Celeste and Jesse Forever, co-writers Rashida Jones and Will McCormack inject new life into the often tired romantic-comedy genre. As the film begins, an unhappy couple, Celeste (Jones) and Jesse (Andy Samberg), are in the process of divorcing....

By Scott Glosserman

Editor’s note: Two weeks ago, we published our first in a series of pieces on crowd-sourcing platforms that are helping filmmakers get their work into theaters without a traditional wide release. Today, Scott Glosserman shares some background on his motivation for developing the new platform

By Karen Kemmerle

In Ruby Sparks, the latest feature from Little Miss Sunshine’s Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, the impossible comes true. The film stars Paul Dano as Calvin Weir-Fields, a writer who experienced Salinger-like success at a young age...

Fresh from his Oscar-nominated performance in 2011’s A Better Life, the charming Demián Bichir talks about working with director Ian Power, filming in West Cork, and checking things off his professional bucket list. Now on VOD, The Runway is a family summer treat.

By Karen Kemmerle

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, which has become increasingly conspicuous in recent years, indicates that Hollywood’s model is changing.

By Zachary Wigon

The ten highest-grossing films in the world last year were:

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Photographer-turned-director Lauren Greenfield discusses her buzzed-about feature debut, which chronicles the overreaching of America, as told through the lens of the wealthy Siegel family. We promise: you will watch with dropped jaw.

By Karen Kemmerle

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Starring Martin Sheen and Stephen Rea, the film Stella Days is set in a small town in Ireland in the 1950s that is thrown into upheaval by the intrusion of the modern world. The advent of such conveniences as electricity, television, and water heaters engender...

By Karen Kemmerle

The Woman in the Fifth, a new film from budding auteur Pawel Pawlikowski, follows in the tradition of previous Pawlikowski gems such as Last Resort and My Summer of Love -- visually stunning, actor-oriented and fearless in their subject...

By Karen Kemmerle

Lola Versus enjoyed its world premiere at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival, which couldn't have been more fitting for a movie about New York shot entirely on location. The main character Lola (the beguiling Greta Gerwig) is jilted by her fiancé Luke (

It’s no secret there is a disconnect between the technology/digital media industry and the filmmaking community. As CEO of Plexus, which runs Go Watch It, we are focused on (legally) connecting films and audiences. We have a foot in both doors, and are well situated to...

By Kristin McCracken

In Tony Kaye’s new film Detachment (available on VOD and in theaters beginning March 16), Oscar winner Adrien Brody (The Pianist) stars as Henry Barthes, a substitute teacher in an urban public high school...

By Ben Moskowitz

This is an emerging field. But for filmmakers hacking on Web-based stories, it basically boils down to this:

You have to commit to the fact the “thing” you are making is not a linear, unchanging video with a discrete runtime (even if your users will experience it...

By Zachary Wigon

The Dardenne Brothers-esque mode of deep character development paired with naturalistic aesthetics and a slow-paced story has become one of the more popular modes of storytelling amongst American independent filmmakers in recent years, and that mode is on full display in Liza...

By Karen Kemmerle

Who wants their moviegoing experience to consist only of big screen blockbusters at multiplexes? One of the websites I check daily is Alt Screen, a handy site that provides a comprehensive guide to almost all of the alternative film screenings in the New York City...

By Karen Kemmerle

Tribeca Alum Ti West knows how to pick his leading ladies: Vanessa Horneff in The Roost; Jocelin Donahue in The House of the Devil; and now, Sara Paxton in The Innkeepers.