Brooklyn’s Northside Festival kicks off tomorrow with a series of entrepreneurship seminars hosted by leaders in the art, music, and film world. The series stretches out until Friday and hopes to target the question, “What’s next?” in innovation and entrepreneurship. The seminars cover innovation, design, software development, music, and films while showcasing the latest technology [...]

The Brooklyn Film Festival wrapped up this Sunday with a back-to-back helping of Brooklyn-themed documentaries followed by the 2012 Decoy edition award ceremony at indieScreen cinema. With the support of industry-related sponsors, the festival was able to award the 2012 winners with up to $57,000 in prizes and film services. The documentary Dear Mandela, directed [...]

Need some Sci-Fi in your life? Of course you do (because, let’s be honest reality gets a bit stale at times)! indieScreen has released their schedule for the coming months, with films of all genres featured throughout. If you’re a fan of David Bowie and sci-fi, why not attend the screening of The Man Who [...]

Established in 1947, the Edinburgh International Film Festival is renowned around the world for discovering and promoting the very best in international cinema – and for heralding and debating changes in global filmmaking. Here’s a teaser video released recently that will get you even more excited about this year’s EIFF! EIFF runs from June 20, [...]

In the business of independent film distribution the driving force in how the industry navigates is sales: the money coming in from the films coming out.  Theaters, much like the now trending and conquering online streaming platforms, must adjust their cost and technology to a plethora of factors including but not limited to the demand [...]

Red is a low-budget psychological thriller that will be shot in San Francisco and released worldwide.  Starring Jodelle Ferland of Twilight: Eclipse and Silent Hill, the film is the debut feature effort of Films by Neptune, a dynamic new production company based in San Francisco. Red will be distributed by RSquared Distribution. Based on the classic fairytale Little Red Riding Hood, Films [...]

Pema Tseden leads the way for New Tibetan Cinema with his latest beautifully allegorical tale, “Old Dog”, which just had a successful run in the Brooklyn Film Festival and is set to screen in next week’s Northside Festival. The film tells the quietly poetic story of a father (Akhu) trying to preserve the integrity of [...]

Cornwall Council today announced it is helping to boost Cornwall’s film industry, by securing a £1.2 million injection of European funding. The €1.5million from EU-funded programme Interreg will help set up the Cross Channel Film Lab 2, a £2.4million research and development project designed to help filmmakers make the most of modern technology. The project [...]

Two of our acclaimed documentaries about Brooklyn, Last Summer at Coney Island and Up on the Roof, will be airing on Channel Thirteen/WNET and other PBS stations; both films are by documentary filmmaker JL Aronson of Creative Arson Productions. Here’s a little about each film: Last Summer at Coney Island (93 min on DVD, 57 [...]

AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Festival, created through a unique alliance between the American Film Institute and Discovery Communications, today announced highlights of its International Documentary Conference taking place June 19-23, 2012 in the Washington, D.C. metro area. The Conference provides five full days of essential discussion, professional development and cutting-edge market intelligence, with over 50 [...]