Brooklyn, NY (May 20, 2019) – The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) announced today the 10 feature films selected for the Documentary Lab, part of the IFP Filmmaker Labs, IFP’s year-long fellowship for first-time filmmakers currently in post-production on their debut feature. The Labs will support the creative teams as …
The documentary community converged in Queens this past Wednesday at the Museum of the Moving Image for the 8th Annual Cinema Eye Honors. In the days leading up to the ceremony, this year’s nominees were treated to a surprise Manhattan bus tour led by none other than Speed Levitch of …
Dave Grohl’s debut film, “Sound City”, was one of the best received docs at this year’s Sundance and SXSW Film Festivals. It’s also one of the better self-distribution case studies of the year—the film has topped the iTunes charts since debuting. How did they do it? And if they …
My Brooklyn will be opening for a 3rd week run at the reRun Theater in DUMBO Brooklyn. For tickets click here.
Kelly Anderson and Allison Lirish Dean’s My Brooklyn, a documentary about the forced gentrification of Downtown Brooklyn’s Fulton Mall, opened theatrically this past January as part of IFP’s new partnership …
It had been two days since the last day of the IFP Distribution Lab – ending the yearlong 2012 IFP fellowship for 10 documentaries and 10 narrative films from first-time directors. With two days left in New York, I found myself sitting in a small theater in Brooklyn looking nervously …
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Full Panel. Hear from the team behind one of the year’s top grossing documentaries, Sundance Audience Award winning Buck as they discuss the challenges of their filmmaking process from inception to release.
Julie Goldman, Producer, Motto Pictures
Julie has produced a wide range of award-winning documentaries that have been distributed …
1. Hire a professional, and choose carefully! If you have the budget, call a top agency and hire John Williams…I mean, he really is the best! He did the theme for Star Wars! Unfortunately, for 99.9% of filmmakers today, (and those who aren’t Steven Spielberg) this is not …
I should have written this post six weeks ago.
By that, I don’t just mean I overshot my deadline. What I mean is, if I was to choose the ideal starting point for a year of monthly dispatches on the release of my first documentary feature – Puppet – six weeks …