CALL FOR ENTRIES Submissions are now being accepted for the 9th Annual Big Apple Film Festival.  The festival will screen a variety of specially selected film from the New York City independent film community, as well as additional selections from across the country and around the world. The festival includes New York City premieres, interactive [...]

Dorian Tocker’s debut feature, Everyday Saturday had its world premiere last Wednesday at the Northside Film Festival, where it was greeted with acclaim from the audience who showered him in compliments during the post screening Q&A. The film which literally sits close to home for Tocker, it was filmed in his childhood home, is about [...]

The Los Angeles Film Festival announced the jury and audience award winners for the 2012 Festival at the Awards Brunch. The Narrative Award recognizes the finest narrative film in competition at the Festival and went to Pocas Pascoal for the North American Premiere of All is Well, with an Honorable Mention going to Dominga Sotomayor’s [...]

With the passing of Steve Jobs the consumers, intellectuals, and visionaries of the world find that the subtle words of wisdom Jobs imparted throughout the years can bring great insight into the mind of the man who produced the most grossing electronics company in the world. This film, Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview, examines the [...]

Brooklyn’s premiere discovery festival began its entrepreneurship leg June 14th with panelists in industries from ESPN to Etsy. The first panel of the day at a ripe 9am was a two-part series entitled “Social Cinema” focusing on film criticism, curation, discovery, and distribution in the age of social media, a topic which has become increasingly [...]

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 [...]

Last week I witnessed a landmark moment in culture: Spike Lee and Fran Lebowitz having a conversation. The moment was made possible by director Martin Scorsese’s production company who was filming the pilot episode for his new HBO series “Guest Host” based on his 2010 documentary “Public Speaking.” The original documentary follows the caustic New [...]

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.