Today we are excited to announce a sales and distribution partnership with Odyssey Pictures Corporation, a publicly traded media and entertainment company, to grow our distribution and increase the reach of content for Odyssey Pictures. “We are very pleased to be working with Odyssey Pictures on the distribution of our growing catalog of outstanding independent [...]

The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) announced May 14 the ten documentaries selected for the 2012 Independent Filmmaker Labs, IFP’s  annual year-long fellowship for first-time feature directors.  The creative teams of the selected films, chosen from a national pool of 200 submissions, join the 8th edition of the Labs taking place May 14-19 in New York City. [...]

Northside Festival, a Brooklyn, NY based music festival, takes place this June from the 14th to the 21st and we’re proud to offer you all the latest updates as one of their participating sponsors! We say all this to bring you an update on new artists that have been added to Northside’s lineup (and, so [...]

The British Film Institute (BFI) announced that it plans to set sights on a bright future for the British film industry. With The Avengers storming the world’s screens this past week, it’s no surprise that the reach of film is a topic of discussion for the BFI as they examine steps they can take to [...]

Could indies be the difference in the next presidential election? Given the recent press on such films as Bully, you’d be hard pressed to think they wouldn’t be at least a factor. Unfortunately for presidents, whether already elected or in the running, the ghosts of the past can (and most likely will) come back in [...]

Sports journalist Jonathan Hooke, a guest poster on The London Vandal, recently did an interview with Kilian Martin who is featured in the film Concrete Circus. In Concrete Circus, Channel 4 brought together the world’s hottest names in urban sports, plus their extraordinarily talented, viral filmmakers, and paired them all with Mike Christie – the [...]

Being in a town like New York, it’s hard to stand out in a crowd – especially for a film festival. Slowly approaching is the opening of the Brooklyn Film Festival which features a great location in the artistic hub that is Brooklyn, NY and a unique outlook on the films it engages its audience [...]

Problems breed solutions, and development of technology tends to reap the full benefits of this. A year ago independent filmmaker Terry Hancock was presented with a problem: how can you produce a free culture film with the full benefits of DVD or Blu-Ray without the hassle? From this, the initiative that has been dubbed Lib-Ray [...]

Wish Me Away is a personal and intimate look at Chely Wright, the first country music star to come out as gay. After a lifetime of hiding, she shatters cultural and religious stereotypes within Nashville, her conservative heartland family, and most importantly, herself. Over a three-year period, award-winning filmmakers Bobbie Birleffi and Beverly Kopf followed [...]

Rooftop Films is known internationally as one of the most dynamic film festivals in the world. In 2011, we screened more than 25 feature films, almost all of which are New York, U.S. or World Premieres. We showed over 150 short films in themed programs which have received accolades for being smart, entertaining, and filled [...]