The nominees for the 2013 Film Independent Spirit Awards were recently announced, released yesterday on YouTube! Nominations of note including Silver Linings Playbook starring Bradley Cooper (The Hangover, The Hangover 2) and Jennifer Lawrence (The Hunger Games) and Beasts of the Southern Wild. Check out the video!

If you haven’t come across the viral digital media colossus that is Machinima (and all it’s entities), just know that it is a corporation that has in a great capacity uplifted the YouTube Star community in a way that I’m sure a multitude of companies wish they had considered. Machinima represents many content creators, helping [...]

A recent announcement from the Nantucket Film Festival, whose 2013 Screenplay Competitions have opened for entry.   Submissions to the 2013 Film Festival and the Showtime’s Tony Cox Screenplay Competitions are open! Each year, NFF awards over $12,000 in cash plus in-kind services to film and screenplay prize winners, so don’t miss your chance to [...]

From Monday, November 26th to Thursday, November 29th Director Jonathan Lisecki will be present for Q&A during the run of his film Gayby at reRun, presented by IFP! Presented in partnership with FilmWax, and on the heels of a two-week run at Manhattan’s Cinema Village, Jonathan Lisecki, recently named one of Out Magazine’s 100 Most [...]

The 2013 New York International Shorts Film Festival, taking place at the Landmark Sunshine Cinema (143 East Houston), is officially open for entry!  All entries must meet the guidelines stated in the Entry Requirements section of the NY Shorts Fest website (also listed below).  The early deadline is quickly approaching on December 07, 2012 – click [...]

Shirin Neshat, writer/director of the award-winning artistic commentary on Iranian gender culture Women Without Men, recently spoke with Artinfo.com about her role as an Iranian artist and leader in the art society. About ARTINFO: ARTINFO.com is the online destination of Louise Blouin Media, the world’s leading cultural media group. Our mission is to provide unparalleled access [...]

Things have returned more or less to normal here in NYC after the events of superstorm Sandy, and the indie film events have followed suit.  Despite the unexpected lack of final stretch prep time the Imagine Science Film Festival kicked off without a hitch last Thursday and continues its jam packed film slate through the [...]

The Moët British Independent Film Awards announced the nominations for their 15th annual event this past Monday, at St Martins Lane, London.  Created in 1998 by Raindance founder Elliot Grove, The British Independent Film Awards set out to celebrate merit and achievement in independently funded British filmmaking, to honour new talent, and to promote British [...]

The Independent Filmmaker Project, more fondly known as IFP, has taken on an exciting project that aims to enhance the experience of filmmakers who choose the route of self-distribution.  As a distribution arm of the independent film industry, IndiePix would love nothing more than to help filmmakers share their creative visions with the niche or [...]

Tribeca invites you to the first in a monthly series of conversations exploring the Future of Film, held at The Varick Room at Tribeca Cinemas. Similar to Tribeca’s Future of Film blog, the discussion series will focus on important topics of the day, beginning with digital filmmaking, web storytelling, film funding, theatrical innovations, actors as directors, and more. This month’s topic: As the [...]