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 Brooklyn Film Festival (BFF) announced recently the winners for its annual festival, themed DECOY. The competitive event ran from June 1 through June 10 at indieScreen and Brooklyn Heights Cinema. Winners were chosen from 104 film premieres that were selected from over 2,000 submissions coming from 111 countries. This year, BFF featured more than [...]

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) [...]

Brooklyn’s Northside Festival kicks off tomorrow with a series of entrepreneurship seminars hosted by leaders in the art, music, and film world. The series stretches out until Friday and hopes to target the question, “What’s next?” in innovation and entrepreneurship. The seminars cover innovation, design, software development, music, and films while showcasing the latest technology [...]

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 [...]

Need some Sci-Fi in your life? Of course you do (because, let’s be honest reality gets a bit stale at times)! indieScreen has released their schedule for the coming months, with films of all genres featured throughout. If you’re a fan of David Bowie and sci-fi, why not attend the screening of The Man Who [...]

Established in 1947, the Edinburgh International Film Festival is renowned around the world for discovering and promoting the very best in international cinema – and for heralding and debating changes in global filmmaking. Here’s a teaser video released recently that will get you even more excited about this year’s EIFF! EIFF runs from June 20, [...]

In the business of independent film distribution the driving force in how the industry navigates is sales: the money coming in from the films coming out.  Theaters, much like the now trending and conquering online streaming platforms, must adjust their cost and technology to a plethora of factors including but not limited to the demand [...]

Red is a low-budget psychological thriller that will be shot in San Francisco and released worldwide.  Starring Jodelle Ferland of Twilight: Eclipse and Silent Hill, the film is the debut feature effort of Films by Neptune, a dynamic new production company based in San Francisco. Red will be distributed by RSquared Distribution. Based on the classic fairytale Little Red Riding Hood, Films [...]

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 [...]