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A Business of Ignorance?
The impact of digital distribution on the indie film landscape has been vast. First, film titles began to inch up the alphabet toward the letter “A” to get noticed at the top of VOD listings. The latest development: Find a young TV star with a solid online fan base and you’re gold. “I’m seeing more and more films leveraging up-and-coming TV actors that have social media profiles,” says Erick Opeka, senior vice president of digital distribution at Cinedigm Entertainment. “Those audiences can’t wait to consume more product that features their favorite actors. The films come out of nowhere and storm […]
by Anthony Kaufman on Jul 18, 2013 -
Win a Copy of The ABCs of Death
Inspired by children’s books, The ABCs of Death is a wildly ambitious anthology that draws upon more than two dozen of the horror genre’s most creative, and macabre, directors from around the world (spanning fifteen countries) to bring you segments that range from provocative to hilarious. Under the auspices of the project, the filmmakers were each assigned a letter of the alphabet and then given the freedom to choose a word to craft their short film around. The only requirement was that it dealt with death. The result is a collection that Fangoria called, “a stunning roll call of some of the […]
by Billy Brennan on May 20, 2013 -
What’s In My Instapaper: Veronica Mars, Bollywood, and More
Jon Taplin is in India, where he attended the Big Bollywood Conference and thought about filmmakers, their content and the country’s class and religious divisions: Mumbai is a big confident city with some of the wealthiest men in India building houses that would have embarrassed the Maharajas for their opulence. I heard that there are more than 100 members of Parliament worth over $1 billion. This may of course be an urban myth,but the perception that the powerful live in a different world seems well founded. Of course this is no different than the U.S., but what does stand out […]
by Scott Macaulay on Mar 17, 2013 -
Tribeca’s Spotlight, Midnight, Storyscapes and Special Screenings Announced
Today the Tribeca Film Festival announced the second half of its feature slate for 2013, and it’s shaping up to be the most robust and exciting lineup the festival has had in recent years. In the Spotlight section, there are a fair number of titles notable for their marquee names, some recent festival favorites but also a number of intriguing world premieres, such as the addiction drama Bottled Up, starring Melissa Leo and Marin Ireland; Christina Voros’ Gucci doc The Director; Josh Fox’s Gasland Part II, the sequel to his Oscar-nominated fracking doc; Adam Bhala Lough’s skateboarding doc The Motivation; Marina Zenovich’s latest biographical […]
by Nick Dawson on Mar 6, 2013 -
Hits & Misses
Back to reality. That may be the best way to describe both the status of our global economy and the previous 12 months in independent film. Little irrational exuberance; no breakout blockbusters; but a few profitable indie films, perhaps countable on one hand, that stand out as carrots for hundreds of others to try to reach out and emulate. Calmer heads prevailed at Sundance 2012 as sellers and buyers got down to the more complicated business of the current indie marketplace, with its delicate mix of theatrical and VOD platform releasing. No one was throwing money around like it was […]
by Anthony Kaufman on Jan 17, 2013 -
Load & Play
Green Factory 25 – out now A provocative drama about sexual power play and female jealousy, Sophia Takal’s Green is one of 2011’s most arresting independent debuts. Boasting lush 5D cinematography and stellar performances, the eerie Green depicts a bookish couple — he (Lawrence Michael Levine) is writing a blog on organic gardening while she (Kate Lyn Sheil) reads Bataille — whose erotic relationship is upended when they befriend a comically outgoing but emotionally needy neighbor (Takal). With its disquieting sound design and escalating atmosphere of dread, Green seems poised to burst into full-on erotic thriller mode during much of […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Oct 28, 2012 -
Lady Vengeance: Sinister Review (Fantastic Fest 2012)
A mainstream production with a mainstream star, Sinister employs such horror movie tropes as a nice family moving into a new house with a past, the supernatural traveling through photographs and movies, and suspiciously troubled children. Yet despite its potentially cliché setup, the film feels unexpectedly fresh; a mash-up of ghost story, serial killer thriller, and Ringu-style photo-phobia that is more than the sum of its parts. The film is anchored by a story of believable domestic strain, and probes slightly deeper than many films in its exploration of the primal idea that images, like the film itself, represent a […]
by Farihah Zaman on Oct 12, 2012 -
Sophia Takal, Green
In Sophia Takal’s Green, a couple of young, New York sophisticates travel upstate in order to research a book on sustainable farming, but when a working-class local woman becomes the object of their affection, jealousy and sexual gamesmanship threaten to ruin their relationship. Mining the insecurities that persist amongst young lovers is not necessarily new ground, but Takal, working with her fiance Lawrence Levine and roommate Kate Lyn Sheil, invests the storytelling with a moody disquiet, an emotional honesty and a jarring sense of foreboding that elevate the film above so many of its predecessors. Widely deploying the color of envy in […]
by Brandon Harris on Sep 7, 2012 -
IN PRODUCTION: “PROXY,” “THE BUTLER,” “SOMEONE MARRY BARRY” and “THE SPECTACULAR NOW”
“In Production” is a regular column which focuses on notable independent films that are currently shooting. Shooting from mid-July in Eastern Indiana, Scalene director Zack Parker’s Proxy is a suspense thriller about Esther (Alexia Rasmussen), a pregnant woman who joins a support group after being attacked one night and strikes up a dysfunctional relationship with a fellow victim (Alexa Havins). Parker’s last feature Scalene, which is set for release on Blu-ray, DVD and VOD on July 31st, received glowing reviews for its clever use of the fractured narrative – potentially one of the most over-used cinematic devices of the past three decades. Parker has […]
by Byron Camacho on Jul 30, 2012 -
Kim Sherman
Producer Kim Sherman, whose credits in the last year include Amy Seimetz’s excellent, heat-blasted psychological noir Sun Don’t Shine and Adam Wingard’s inventive home-invasion horror pic You’re Next, was born in Wyoming, grew up in D.C., but credits her home base of Columbia, Mo., for her ability to produce independent film. “I depend on the community here in ways I wouldn’t be able to if I lived in a place with a strong [film] industry,” she says. “In New York and Los Angeles, people are so used to filming; they almost protect themselves from the films coming in. But in […]
by Webmaster on Jul 19, 2012
