Ira Deutchman, founder of Emerging Pictures writing as NYIndieGuy, calls out an article in Bloomberg Business Week that analyzes the threat to digital projection in cinemas. Ira should know. Emerging Pictures has organized a network of 115 cinemas, mostly art house locations, to which he can distributed films digitally via the internet. The projection version [...]

Women Without Men is playing in NYC! Join celebrated writer Shahrnush Parsipur and artist Shirin Neshat as they reflect on their shared concern for the position of women in Iranian society and how they work with artistic means, whether literary or visual, to express their views. Parsipur was jailed after the publication of her novella, [...]

In case you missed it, the 2012 NY Emmy Awards were announced a few days ago. Last Summer At Coney Island, available now on DVD and by Download/Stream, was nominated for Best Documentary! This film, directed by JL Aronson, is an intimate look at how Coney Island has transformed and all those who were affected [...]

With the Awards season well underway The Moët British Independent Film Awards announced today that this year’s awards will be held on Sunday 9th December 2012. For the third year, the Awards will be sponsored by partner Moët & Chandon. Tessa Collinson & Johanna von Fischer, Joint Directors The Moët British Independent Film Awards commented: “With [...]

Champ Ensminger is an new filmmaker with a fresh vision on the industry. NFFTY talks to Champ about his internship at Vimeo, and his experience at NFFTY 2011. You can check out Ensminger’s film TONAL here. The National Film Festival Talented Youth runs from April 26, 2012 – April 29, 2012. For more information visit [...]

The Beloit International Film Festival celebrates the roots of filmmaking this year with its Student Filmmaker Showcase! This program is for 6th – 12th grade students. Entries can be of any genre, must be between three and five minutes long, and will be created by the students themselves. We will be having a prep day [...]

The Beliot International Film Festival (in association with Beloit College) is “a four-day tribute to the power of film and the excitement of independent film from around the world.”  Check out their festival webpage here for more information on this festival. In one of the first programs of its kind, the Beloit International Film Festival [...]

Perusing the interwebs we came across this article by Kim Voynar of MCN Blogs that addressed a lot of things that we have been hearing over the past few months from people all over the industry from Ed Burns to the Sundance Film Festival as a whole: what is indie film in 2012? Here is [...]

The Corpus Christi Film Society organized Crash The Coast Film Festival, slated for May of 2012, has reached its first deadline for submissions. The Early Bird discounted price for submissions (just $30) ends today, so don’t miss your chance to save on submitting to this festival! Each entry must be accompanied by the appropriate entry [...]

Now in its 62nd year, the Berlinale has seen its share of great filmmakers and their works of art. At this year’s festival they will honor the passing of two great filmmakers: Theo Angelopoulos and Vadim Glowna. While these filmmakers did not reside in the USA, those in tune with the community of great cinema [...]