Independent filmmakers transitioning into television makes perfect sense. Indie filmmakers share a passion for singular characters, earned character development, and edgy storytelling. Television allows you to focus on your characters at least a dozen hours a season. Sometimes – if you’re lucky – you’re living with your characters for hundreds …
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In this full length panel, join the next generation of indie film auteurs as they discuss the future of American independent filmmaking.
Featuring
Melanie Shatzky & Brian M. Cassidy (co-directors; Francine, The Patron Saints)
David Zellner (director, Kid-Thing)
Nathan Zellner (producer, Kid-Thing)
Amy Dotson (Deputy Director, IFP)
Mike Ryan (Producer, The Comedy, Junebug)
Olivia Silver …
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There’s been a lot of chatter about race and representation lately — “Linsanity,” the Pete Hoekstra campaign debacle, the overwhelmingly white makeup of Oscar voters and nominees alike, Billy Crystal in blackface at the Oscars, the lack of Asian American actors on the New York stage, the controversy over the …
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Alrick Brown discusses the realities of making a film on the cheap.
From the 2011 Independent Filmmaker Conference.
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Alrick Brown (Director, Kinyarwanda) discusses how he approached the screenwriting process as writing a series of interconnected shorts.
From the 2011 Independent Filmmaker Conference.
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Chicken and Egg
A film fund and non-profit production company dedicated to supporting women filmmakers passionate about the craft of storytelling, as well as social justice, environmental and human rights issues. Funding opportunities …
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Get the inside scoop on representation from filmmakers and their agents and managers, candidly discussing strategies for building and growing careers in entertainment
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It was a day that alternated between beautiful snowfall that excited all the visitors and rain that made getting around just plain annoying. Main Street was much quieter, with many of the vendors and sponsors of the festival having packed up already.
Indoors, though, it was a good day for …