Thirty years ago, on the night of December 2, 1984, the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal, India, leaked 30,000 tons of poisonous gas. More than 3,500 people died that night or in the next few days from the poison. Over the last 30 years, another 25,000 people have died from debilitating ailments directly related to [...]

Confirming its roots in arthouse horror, The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto (MART) in Italy held a special screening of Luca Caserta’s foreboding short “Out of the Depths”  on November 15. After the short, the museum conducted a round table discussion on independent filmmaking, social media and web distribution.The lecturers [...]

The 8th annual Korean American Film Festival New York (KAFFNY) makes its Brooklyn debut at the sought-after Wythe Hotel Cinema, November 14-16, 2014 in Williamsburg. KAFFNY’s unique 3-day program provides an unparalleled platform in New York City to see the newest local and global talent in short and feature films, made by filmmakers of the Korean diaspora and [...]

  Dal profondo  is a short horror movie that recalls the foreboding films of 70s-era Roman Polanski and the literary works of Lovecraft, Stephen King and Edgar Allan Poe. Having played at the Cannes Film Festival’s edgy Short Film Corner in 2013, the 20-minute pic is set to satisfy a unique and mixed audience of [...]

IndiePix is very pleased to welcome Elizabeth Lennard, Director of Edith Wharton: the Sense of Harmony to the IndiePix Blog. We were attracted by her documentary’s revelation that Ms Wharton, a member of Society in what is often referred to now as “America’s First Gilded Age”, was such a critic of that society in her [...]

Recently KQED, the public station in San Francisco, CA, ran an article entitled: “For Cinephiles, Netflix Is Less and Less an Option” — see this link. The article is a very detailed story about the search for a very prominent, if somewhat older, black independent film, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song. NetFlix wasn’t the resource that [...]

In the audio commentary to Satellite, the new IndiePix Films DVD release, Director Jeff Winner comments (at about 57:00) that: “we see them trying to figure out their responsibilities in this new world they have created, to themselves and other people … we want them to work things out but we see them making choices [...]

Ready or not it’s here: Dick: The Documentary. Brian Fender, a fine art photographer, writer and filmmaker, is the man behind the film – a collection of interviews with men who share stories about their first orgasms, talk about circumcision, size, masturbation, molestation and religion among other things. The idea for the doc came to [...]

A tense, revealing conversation is given visually distinctive flair with inspired use of animation in the short documentary Mariposa, directed by Hamideh Moeinfar. Annika, covered head to toe in traditional Islamic garb, and Mathilda, a Swedish fashion model with once-overpowering body issues, get together to discuss their ideas on how women should be allowed to express themselves. [...]

Hollywood’s focus on superheroes, comedies, and animated movies for kids is leaving a door wide open for independent filmmakers. As more people stay away from movie theaters opting to stay at home and watch movies on demand on better televisions – this summer has seen a 15 percent drop in tickets sales – there is [...]