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 [...]

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 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) [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]