Ted Hope asks: When did “independent” become a negative word?Ted Hope writes: “I hereby declare my independence”Ted Hope proposes: “a sustainable film culture built on creative and financial independence” But How is that going to happen? Apparently stung by an individual who did not want to be called an “independent filmmaker”, an individual who said [...]

Terms and Conditions May Apply is a new documentary film by Cullen Hoback and released to theaters in the last couple of weeks by Variance Films. The film has won recognition at SLAMDANCE and Newport Beach International Film Festival — and we became aware of the film there. With it’s theatrical release, more attention has [...]

The Lives Of Others is a film about uncontrolled spying by a government on its citizens with the cooperation and in cases at the instigation of other citizens. This a German dramatic narrative film, made in 2006, about the East German Secret Police (STASI) and their work in East Berlin to control the population there [...]

Bob Alexander founded IndiePix Films and has a deep connection with and knowledge of the entertainment industry as a whole. Evan Shapiro, in addition to being President of IFC, teaches a class on media at NYU.   There he sees the leading edge of the “unplug” movement, the idea of disconnecting and going straight internet.  Evan [...]

Bob Alexander founded IndiePix Films and has a deep connection with and knowledge of the entertainment industry as a whole. Anthony Kauffman over at IndieWire is spot on with his selection of “Video-On-Demand” as a topic for his “Filmmaker Toolkit” series.  And as usual, his article provokes a terrific string of comments.  But maybe he [...]

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 [...]

Several friends and I saw the US Premier of Deep Blue Sea, the new film by Terrence Davies based on the 1952 play by the prominent British playwright, Terrence Rattigan.
The film has been acquired by Music Box (better known for “The Girl With … ” series of Euro imports). Many “P&I” attendees (“Press and Industry”) at the Hamptons [...]