The British Film Institute (BFI) announced that it plans to set sights on a bright future for the British film industry. With The Avengers storming the world’s screens this past week, it’s no surprise that the reach of film is a topic of discussion for the BFI as they examine steps they can take to [...]

Problems breed solutions, and development of technology tends to reap the full benefits of this. A year ago independent filmmaker Terry Hancock was presented with a problem: how can you produce a free culture film with the full benefits of DVD or Blu-Ray without the hassle? From this, the initiative that has been dubbed Lib-Ray [...]

Player Hating: A Love Story Premiers in NYC in less than 1 Month! “THE DOCUMENT of a time and place in American life.” -Peter Sprier, Academy Award Nominated Filmmaker and CEO of Rugged Entertainment The award winning new documentary from critically acclaimed director Maggie Hadleigh-West screens in New York City at Quad Cinema from Friday April [...]

The Film Independent Spirit Awards on last Saturday evening did much more than predict that The Artist would take the big prize at the Oscars, it honored filmmakers who you can truly identify as passionate artists (because, as Seth Rogan points out, it is obvious they will work for essentially money!). Take a look at [...]

The Beloit International Film Festival celebrates the roots of filmmaking this year with its Student Filmmaker Showcase! This program is for 6th – 12th grade students. Entries can be of any genre, must be between three and five minutes long, and will be created by the students themselves. We will be having a prep day [...]

Perusing the interwebs we came across this article by Kim Voynar of MCN Blogs that addressed a lot of things that we have been hearing over the past few months from people all over the industry from Ed Burns to the Sundance Film Festival as a whole: what is indie film in 2012? Here is [...]

Bassist and co-founder of the popular band Mötley Crüe Nikki Sixx is teaming up with P. R. Brown in a film sure to reflect the cast it has required. P.R. Brown is a Grammy nominated commercial and music video director. He started his career as a graphic designer and photographer working on album packages for [...]

Today is the day! Your Film Festival, You Tube’s challenge to filmmakers the world over to tell a compelling and deeply enriching story in 15 minutes or less, is now taking submissions on what is sure to be the most innovative approach in online video cinema to date. The details are simple: create a video [...]

Otto’s Shrunken Head is a new interpretation of the Tiki Bar, mixing traditional Tiki decor and potent rum based concoctions with live bands and DJs resulting in NYC’s premier Rock-n-Roll Tiki joint. Otto’s will be screening an IndiePix film every first Wednesday of the month, and this month’s indie-treat is the musically-inclined and aesthetically-pleasing Echotone! [...]

Edward Burns has been in the independent spotlight for the greater part of two months now with his uncanny timing of still being young enough to take advantage of new filmmaking innovation while having enough experience to provide retrospectives that help round out how the industry is taking shape in the 21st century. Newlyweds, a [...]