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” [...]

Filmmaker Magazine is a publication of the Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP). The Independent Filmmaker Project fosters the development, production and promotion of hundreds of feature and documentary films a year. The French feminist collective known as La Barbe (French for “The Beard”) printed an open letter in France’s daily newspaper Le Monde earlier this week addressing the complete absence [...]

Filmmaker Magazine’s Scott Macaulay takes a look back to when he met Bingham Ray, who passed recently at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. A venerated figure in the film industry, everyone whose life he touched has deeply felt the pain of his lost and wishes his family and loved ones peace in their time of [...]

The Kickstarter campaign for Iranian basketball documentary The Iran Job ends next Monday, but the project has already passed its ambitious $50,000 goal. In production for several years, The Iran Job (which is fiscally sponsored by IFP) is seeking finishing funds to prepare for a 2012 release. The documentary follows Kevin Sheppard, an American basketball [...]