Top Awards go to MARRIAGE STORY and AMERICAN FACTORY
for Best Feature and Best Documentary
ADAM DRIVER and AWKWAFINA Win
Best Actor and Best Actress Awards
MARRIAGE STORY Wins a Total of 4 Awards including the Gotham Audience Award
New York, NY (Monday, December 2, 2019) – The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) …
Guest Speakers Include Joe Berlinger, Jon M. Chu, Todd Douglas Miller, Tyler Mitchell, Rachel Lears, Kasi Lemmons, Ira Sachs, E. Chai Vasarhelyi, Michael H. Weber, Alice Wu and more
Special Screening of Amazon Studios’ THE REPORT and
Conversation with Writer/Director Scott Z. Burns
IFP Week to Run September 15 – …
It has been a few weeks since I wrapped up production on my first feature film, Appropriate Behavior. Having the opportunity to shoot your first feature must be what getting married is like for a certain type of woman. After so many years of fantasizing and months of …
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Day 1: Future Forward
Case Study: Fruitvale Station
In a conversation with Fruitvale Station director and writer, Ryan Coogler, and lead actress Melanie Diaz, the director discusses what inspires his work, and what’s up next …
After attending the Sundance Shorts Lab at BAM this past Sunday, I couldn’t help but feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of people wanting to write, direct, or produce a short and submit it to the Sundance Film Fest. For 8,000 submissions, there are only 80 films that …
Lena Dunham has been coming up a lot lately in my therapy sessions.
I don’t feel safe in the world now that she’s out and about. Let me clarify: my work is not safe- my potential career is in jeopardy. We’re too damn similar and she beat me to …
It’s not like when we were kids we dreamed we’d grow-up some day and have our very own web series. Margaret wanted to be Mowgli. Max wanted to be a majorette. (No, really.) But here we are, and you know what? We really like making The 3 Bits.
We …
Video Village, Indie-Style
Not every director is suited for low-budget indie filmmaking, and that’s OK if you’re Terrence Malick or David Fincher. But chances are, you’re not…or not yet, anyway. I get a fair number of calls from biggish directors and producers who are having trouble raising money for …