Flying Blind, the third film to be made under Creative England’s exciting low budget feature film initiative, iFeatures, is to have its world première at this year’s Edinburgh Film Festival. The film stars Helen McCrory (Hugo, Skyfall, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince and soon to open at the National Theatre in Last Of The Haussmans ) [...]

Silverdocs Documentary Film Festival announced today its full competition lineup for this year’s festival. Silverdocs is a leading festival in the showcasing of top quality documentary films and their filmmakers.  This year’s Silverdocs runs from 6/19/2012 – 6/23/2012.  For more information visit the festival webpage. This year’s Sterling U.S., World and Short competition films are: [...]

Attention all writers! June 1st is your last chance to submit a script in this year’s Austin Film Festival Screenplay & Teleplay Competition and your last chance to submit a film before the entry fee goes up (to $50 before July 1st, and $50 before July 15th).  Here’s some info on the competition from the [...]

All puns aside, the hugely popular (especially in the video gaming community) digital distribution outlet Steam is looking to try its hand at a new product: films. Now, for those who know and have used Steam this is both surprising and yet a very characteristic move for the platform that supports everything that this particular [...]

We’re getting excited about our upcoming release of Concrete Circus in the United States. The film features some of the most innovative athletes in BMX, Skateboarding, and Freerunning including Paul ‘Blue’ Joseph, Phil Doyle, and Mathieu Ledoux who are featured in the short film Storm Origins which is also in the film! Storm Origins follows [...]

Hulu has taken to the skies the concept of internet TV and has begun creating an empire that debunks the notion that digital media is simply a “fad” that has always been doomed to take in too much and give out too little. Instead, Hulu has conquered the mainstream and now looks to diversify its [...]

The Film Society Lincoln Center (Elinor Bunin Monroe Film Center, 144 W. 65TH St, New York, NY 10023) is set to screen an assuredly interesting, dark, and entertaining Todd Solondz film titled Dark Horse.  The plot: Thirty-something guy with arrested development falls for thirty-something girl with arrested development, but moving out of his junior high school bedroom proves [...]

Filmmaker Magazine is a publication of the Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP). The Independent Filmmaker Project fosters the development, production and promotion of hundreds of feature and documentary films a year. The French feminist collective known as La Barbe (French for “The Beard”) printed an open letter in France’s daily newspaper Le Monde earlier this week addressing the complete absence [...]

We could easily preach the gospel that is the advantages of a film festival, for all its service to the independent film community and it’s surrounding community as a whole: giving voice to young and upstarting filmmakers, catering to a wide range of interest in genre and subject-matter, and most of all upholding film as [...]