The Focus Forward Filmmaker Challenge is giving away a whopping $200,000 in cash prizes to the top five three-minute nonfiction film entries surrounding the theme of invention and innovation. You have until August 23rd to submit your film in the hopes of the $100,000 grand prize. First announced at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, the [...]

The Independent Film Center will be screening the infamous and very rare 35mm print of the Italian film Salo, Or the 120 Days of Sodom as a part of their Queer/Art Summer film series on June 11th at 8 pm. The screening will be preceded by an introduction by producer Peter Cramer and actor Jack [...]

Open Road Rooftop is home to Rooftop Films’ event tonight, complete with Matthew Lillard’s Fat Kid Rules The World and EULA EULA! EULA EULA is a 3-piece outfit found in Brooklyn, NY; Nate is the pants, Alyse is the blouse, and Jeff is the cummerbund. They taste like post-punk-pre-historic-medium-gauge-no-wave, with a splash of lemon.  Lillard will [...]

Today the Los Angeles Film Festival, in conjunction with Presenting Media Sponsor the Los Angeles Times and Host Partner L.A. LIVE, announced its jurors for the 2012 Festival, which runs Thursday, June 14 to Sunday, June 24 in downtown Los Angeles. The narrative jury consists of Film Independent Spirit Award-nominated actress Rachael Harris (Natural Selection, [...]

Just a reminder: Silverdocs is quickly approaching with a spectacular slate of documentary films (as always) and a very special Guggenheim Symposium to honor Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky. Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky are leading voices in American nonfiction cinema. Over the course of their two decades of work, the filmmakers have demonstrated a [...]

Don’t miss the world premiere of Pincus, a film by David Fenster starring David Nordstrom and Paul Fenster, at this year’s Los Angeles Film Festival!  The film will be featured in the Narrative Competition. A little about the film: Pincus Finster is in way over his head: trying to find a way to stall his father’s Parkinson’s, halfheartedly [...]

With websites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo, which both claim to be the world’s largest funding platform, jumpstarting a personal project has been made as easy as clicking a button: so long as others click that button as well. Instead of dealing with pesky bank loans and other financial nightmares, the power of investment has been [...]

The Crossroads Film Society will hold a special one-time-only showing of “MARLEY,” the newly-released documentary by filmmaker Kevin Macdonald (“The Last King of Scotland”) on the life of the legendary singer/songwriter Bob Marley.  The film is currently in limited release nationwide.  For more information about the film, click here.        Thursday, June 14, 2012 [...]

Submissions are now being accepted for the Cinequest Screenwriting Competition. A $5,000 top prize will be awarded to the winner of this years competition. Festival expert Chris Gore named Cinequest one of the “best festivals for screenwriters” in the latest edition of his Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide (Testimonials). Follow the link to submit your screenplay to Cinequest. [...]

A year after LCD Soundsystem’s final performance at Madison Square Garden, filmmakers Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace’s chronicling of the events surrounding the amicable conclusion of possibly the most beloved dance-punk band in the world is finally arriving in theatres–for a VERY limited one-day engagement on July 18. The solitary release date for the film, [...]