With the passing of Steve Jobs the consumers, intellectuals, and visionaries of the world find that the subtle words of wisdom Jobs imparted throughout the years can bring great insight into the mind of the man who produced the most grossing electronics company in the world. This film, Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview, examines the [...]

Brooklyn’s premiere discovery festival began its entrepreneurship leg June 14th with panelists in industries from ESPN to Etsy. The first panel of the day at a ripe 9am was a two-part series entitled “Social Cinema” focusing on film criticism, curation, discovery, and distribution in the age of social media, a topic which has become increasingly [...]

iFeatures, Creative England’s exciting low budget feature film initiative, will be making a splash at this year’s Edinburgh Film Festival (20 June – 1 July 2012). Not only does Flying Blind, the third feature film to be commissioned under the programme, get its world première, but away from the red carpet, the iFeatures team will [...]

By popular demand the documentary Birth Story will have an additional screening at Los Angeles Film Festival! The documentary Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin And The Farm Midwives tells the story of counterculture heroine Ina May Gaskin and her spirited friends, who began delivering each other’s babies in 1970, on a caravan of hippie school buses, headed [...]

Last week I witnessed a landmark moment in culture: Spike Lee and Fran Lebowitz having a conversation. The moment was made possible by director Martin Scorsese’s production company who was filming the pilot episode for his new HBO series “Guest Host” based on his 2010 documentary “Public Speaking.” The original documentary follows the caustic New [...]

Check out the trailer for one of this week’s features at Rooftop Films: An Oversimplification of Her Beauty! For more info on this film head over to the Rooftop Films event page.

Independent filmmaker Kirk Loudon and his wife Julie were vacationing in the Colorado area when they stumbled upon a small town called Trinidad. With it’s magnificent mountian views and small town feel, Trinidad was the perfect place to launch a film festival. So in 2011 Kirk and Julie began TrindieFest. L.A. INDEPENDENT PRODUCER MARK STOLAROFF [...]

The Brooklyn Film Festival (BFF) announced recently the winners for its annual festival, themed DECOY. The competitive event ran from June 1 through June 10 at indieScreen and Brooklyn Heights Cinema. Winners were chosen from 104 film premieres that were selected from over 2,000 submissions coming from 111 countries. This year, BFF featured more than [...]

The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) and Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) announced Adam Bowers as the winner of the 2011 RBC Emerging Visions Director Prize, an extension of the RBC Emerging Visions program. The RBC Emerging Visions program is a collaborative symposium between RBC, IFP, and Film Society of Lincoln Center. Adam Bowers (New Low) [...]