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 [...]

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) [...]

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 [...]