Film Independent
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HieronyVision Announces “30×30” Film Independent Partnership Winners
HieronyVision, an online platform that aims to “establish a new creative ecosystem across independent and alternative movies, music and art,” has announced the 30 filmmakers selected as part of a Film Independent partnership. The filmmakers, chosen from five film schools as well as an application process, will “get a chance to develop, fund and distribute their projects with HieronyVision and learn the HV ORIGINALS model.” Explains HieronyVision in a statement, “For film projects, our team describes it as ‘Y Combinator meets The French New Wave.’Creatively the projects have to provoke, inspire or entertain. On the business side HieronyVision follows a […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jul 7, 2023 -
2021 Film Independent Spirit Awards Announced
Eliza Hittman’s Never Rarely Sometimes Always topped Film Independent’s nomination list for the 2021 Spirit Awards. The reproduction rights drama scored seven nominations, including Best Feature, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Female Lead. Other films receiving multiple nominations include First Cow, Minari, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Sound of Metal and Nine Days. New this year are five new categories for script and unscripted television. Also new this year is the event’s date and time. Rather than the afternoon the day before the Oscars, the Spirits this year will be an evening event on April 22, three days before. Commented […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 26, 2021 -
Sheltering in Place: The Independent Film Community Faces the Coronavirus Shutdown
It was February, 2020. At New York’s Steiner studios, the largest studio lot outside of LA, people were busily prepping Lin Manuel Miranda’s highly anticipated directorial debut, Tik, Tik…Boom! The movie was set to begin shooting in two weeks, and Jessie Pellegrino, a seasoned assistant prop master, paused her work to sit through a mandatory Netflix HR meeting. Near the end of the session, one of her colleagues raised his hand. “What’s Netflix’s plan for us if coronavirus forces our shoot to shut down?” The HR rep responded the best she could at the time. They were working on it; […]
by Kishori Rajan on Mar 24, 2020 -
“I’ve Made it a Priority to Not Be Afraid of Evolving”: Jennifer Cochis on Producing, Programming and Directing
My German teacher in Berlin has been hacked. In class, she violates her “no speaking English” rule to explain that for nearly a year, a hacker has tracked her digital life in order to stalk her in real life. I’ve never been personally hacked — or so I think — but, the inconvenience of it seems rather minor compared to the sense of intimate violation. The Sony leak, the stolen photos of Jennifer Lawrence, and my teacher’s less gossip-worthy admission all underscore this pervasive reality of digital fragility. This is a topical conversation, but it’s also a really abstract one. […]
by Taylor Hess on Jan 13, 2015 -
Letters from Blocked Filmmakers: Michael Lew
Get together for drinks with a group of people who work in film, and soon the memories will flow. And they are usually linked to films these people have worked on. Film titles become markers of memory. It was on that film that this electrician met his future wife. On this one a P.A. adopted her dog. The sound guy was going through a divorce on this other one. The films may have faded from our collective memory, but the days on those sets are still ripe for the people who were involved. In reading this letter from Michael Lew, […]
by Scott Macaulay on May 14, 2013 -
Sundance Institute Artist Services Program Expands Self-Distribution Opportunities
Keri Putnam, Executive Director of Sundance Institute, announced today that the Institute’s Artist Services program – which provides Institute artists with exclusive opportunities for creative self-distribution, marketing and financing solutions for their work –has expanded to include selected films supported by one foundation and five nonprofit organizations. Additionally, these organizations will join with Sundance Institute in continuing to shape the program and the services it offers. The Bertha Foundation, BRITDOC, Cinereach, Film Independent, the Independent Filmmaker Project and the San Francisco Film Society will each select films that they have supported to receive access to best-in-class digital distribution arrangements that […]
by Billy Brennan on Jan 18, 2013 -
SPIRIT AWARDS’ “FIND YOUR AUDIENCE AWARD” IS NOW OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS
This past February, the inaugural Jameson FIND Your Audience Award was open only to films nominated that year for a Spirit Award. The winner, Jeff Malmberg’s documentary Marwencol, received a sizable distribution and marketing grant. For the 2012 Independent Spirit Awards, happening February 26 in LA, Film Independent is changing things up and opening the award so that filmmakers can apply. Between now and December 2, narrative and documentary filmmakers with a feature out on the fest circuit who are eying a self-distribution strategy can apply here for the $40,000 grant. One large caveat though– the award is open only […]
by Jane Schoenbrun on Nov 22, 2011 -
OPENING NIGHT FILM & PANELISTS CHOSEN FOR FILM INDEPENDENT FORUM
Drake Doremus‘ Sundance Grand Prize winner Like Crazy will be the opening night film for the 7th annual Film Independent Forum, according to the non-profit. Taking place Oct. 21-23 at the Director Guild of America in L.A., Like Crazy (which Paramount Vantage opens on Oct. 28) will kick off the the three-day forum for emerging and established independent filmmakers that covers production, distribution, documentary and new media. Speakers for the 2011 Film Independent Forum include: Sara Bernstein, HBO Documentary Films Laura Bickford, producer, Duplicity, Che Josh Braun, Submarine Lisa Callif, Donaldson & Callif, LLP Juan Devis, KCET Public Media Arthur […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Sep 14, 2011 -
“BLACK SWAN” WINS BIG AT SPIRIT AWARDS
The Film Independent Spirit Awards just wrapped (see it on IFC tonight @ 10ET) and Darren Aronofsky‘s thriller Black Swan was the big winner taking home four awards, including Best Feature, Best Director for Aronofsky and Best Female Lead for Natalie Portman. Winter’s Bone won the supporting acting prizes with John Hawkes taking it for actor and Dale Dickey for actress while James Franco won Best Male Lead for 127 Hours, Banksy‘s Exit through the Gift Shop won Best Documentary and Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg won Best Screenplay for The Kids Are All Right. Also, “25 New Face” alum […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Feb 26, 2011 -
“KIDS” OPENS L.A. FILM FEST; LINE-UP ANNOUNCED
Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids are All Right will open the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival, which announced its line-up today. The Focus Features release, due out in July, stars Annette Benning, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo and Mia Wasikowska in a story of a lesbian couple and their children, who search for their sperm donor father. The closing night film will be Despicable Me, a 3D comedy-fantasy directed by Chris Renaud and Pierre Coffin. The festival, organized by Film Independent, will be the first held in downtown L.A.’s L.A. Live complex. Rebecca Yeldham is the Director of the festival and David […]
by Scott Macaulay on May 4, 2010
