We’ve made new friends at the independent filmmaker supporting company Zoomtilt, who below share the story that inspired their mission to aid independent filmmakers in a new and unique way: A few years ago, my friends Dan and Jake had a great idea for a script. It was about two brothers who were wildly different [...]

Celebrate audience award winners from the top 50 US and Canadian film festivals! Voting begins October 18, vote for your 5 favorites by October 31st.

The Milwaukee Film Festival, presented by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, announced the complete 2012 line-up, including Opening and Closing night films, Spotlight presentations, the Competition program, and the U.S. premiere of Alex Gibney’s new film, Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God. Bookending the Film Festival this year are two acclaimed festival circuit favorites: Canadian [...]

NIFF Film Society wraps up its Summer Series with Dr. Strangelove on September 4 at 7:00 pm, sponsored by PNC Wealth Management. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, commonly known as “Dr. Strangelove,” is a 1964 black comedy film which satirizes the nuclear scare. The film was directed, [...]

The Chagrin Film Festival is only a few weeks away, but it’s not too late to support the festival with a small donation!  Below you will find the different levels of donation and the perks you’ll receive for each during the festival: Your Festival membership lanyard provides access to all of the excitement: films, discussions, [...]

Palo Alto Film Festival’s full schedule recently went live after its announcement at its kick off party at Stonebrook Court in Los Altos Hills. The lineup includes dynamic feats in filmmaking including a never-before-seen type of animation that looks to innovate the dimensions and framework of animation as a practice in the making of film.  The film, [...]

Milwaukee Film Festival announced recently the focus of their Passport Program, Chinese films!  Passport: China will spotlight eight films— both documentary and fiction— made by both Chinese and foreign filmmakers. All are set in mainland China, and explore a number of historical and contemporary themes. Also featured will be a panel discussion on “Chinese Cinema in [...]

The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) recently released the official date for this year’s Gotham Independent Film Awards, the 22nd installment celebrating independent filmmakers of merit from around the world. Check out the complete press release: Deadline for Submissions is Friday, September 14, 2012 Independent Filmmaker Project®, the nation’s oldest and largest organization of independent filmmakers, [...]

It’s the list that independent filmmakers aspire to be on, it’s the list that gets it right time and time again, it’s the list we anticipate with baited breath. Yes, the list has just been revealed. What is it, you might ask? It’s the list of names on the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” [...]

On the heels of announcing that Zachary Quinto and his Before the Door Pictures banner (Margin Call) will be opening the 8th annual HollyShorts Film Festival with the premiere of the PERIODS. comedy film series, the festival’s organizers announced Monday that Joe Carnahan (The Grey, The A-Team, Smoking Aces) will be the recipient of the [...]