The Film Independent Forum is an information packed three-day event for today’s independent filmmakers and content creators (October 21-23). The 2016 Film Independent Forum is supported by Premier Sponsors Directors Guild of America, Loyola Marymount University School of Film and Television and SAGindie, Principal Sponsors Brandwood Global, Montana Film Office and The Virginia Film Office. […]
LOS ANGELES – The LA Film Festival, produced by Film Independent announced the winners of the 2016 Festival at an Awards Cocktail Reception. The Reception was hosted by Roya Rastegar, Director of Programming and Jennifer Cochis, Creative Director. “With all the talk about diversifying Hollywood, the LA Film Festival provides proof that talented filmmakers with […]
LOS ANGELES – Film Independent announced the 10 projects selected for the 14th annual Fast Track film finance market. Held during the LA Film Festival, Fast Track is designed to help producer-director teams propel their projects forward through meetings with top industry executives–financiers, agents, managers, distributors, granting organizations, and production companies. During three days of […]
What is Film Independent’s Documentary Lab? Held in Los Angeles in April, the Film Independent Documentary Lab is an intensive five-week program designed to help filmmakers who are currently in post-production on their feature-length documentary films. Through a series of meetings and workshops, the Documentary Lab provides creative feedback and story notes to participating filmmakers, […]
$75,000 IN GRANTS TO BE AWARDED TO FILMMAKERS SPIRIT AWARDS TO BE BROADCAST LIVE EXCLUSIVELY ON IFC, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2016 2:00 pm PT / 5:00 pm ET LOS ANGELES – Film Independent, the nonprofit arts organization that produces the Film Independent Spirit Awards, the LA Film Festival and Film Independent at LACMA, announced nominations […]
$30,000 SLOAN PRODUCERS GRANT AWARDED TO THE DUST DIRECTED BY AMANDA BRENNAN AND PRODUCED BY SARAH DORMAN LOS ANGELES, CA — Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards and LA Film Festival, announced the producers selected for its 15th annual Producing Lab. The 2015 Producing Lab is supported by Artist Development […]
30 Films chosen for U.S. Fiction, Documentary and World Fiction Competitions — 18 World Premieres — — Full competition lineup showcases 54 feature films and 39 World Premieres — LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles Film Festival, produced by Film Independent with Presenting Media Sponsor the Los Angeles Times and Host Partner L.A. LIVE, announced […]
First Festival Screening – Tuesday, June 16 @ 8:20pm Communist Romania -1980s. Culturally isolated, ideologically censored; all images of life outside the Iron Curtain are cut off and TV is reduced to a couple of hours of propaganda bulletins each day. From the drab concrete housing blocks to the food ration queues, an overwhelming fear […]
First Festival Screening – Thursday, June 11 @ 8:30pm The film follows Pras Michel, Grammy award-winning rapper and founder of the hip-hop group The Fugees, as he returns to his homeland of Haiti post-earthquake and finds a corrupt government in paralysis. With no experience or money, Pras passionately mobilizes a presidential campaign for the unlikeliest […]
First Festival Screening – Sunday, June 14 @ 6:30pm Chasing the bling of a lux life, Claudia, a twenty-something Chicana, makes bad choices – and gets caught. Despite the fact that she barely speaks a word of Spanish, her undocumented status gets her deported to Mexico. Although she can never legally return to the U.S. […]
