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Film Society of Lincoln Center Leaders Honoured

Film Society of Lincoln Center Leaders Honoured

Chicken & Egg Pictures will honor Lesli Klainberg, Executive Director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and Eugene Hernandez, Deputy Director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, with its 2014 Good Egg Award, and celebrate the two Chicken & Egg Pictures film grantees participating in the Independent Film Week Project Forum: The Bill […]

Dubai Film Festival: A Gilded Event Spotlighting the Good, the Mediocre and the Fundamentalist

Dubai Film Festival: A Gilded Event Spotlighting the Good, the Mediocre and the Fundamentalist

from indiewire by Mark Rabinowitz After about 24 hours in Dubai attending the 7th annual Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF), I realized that the trip was going to redefine three words, minimum: Surreal, contradiction and ironic. At that was before I’d seen a film. Like any other festival in the world, there are things to […]

Franco, Weiler and More on Tap for 2011 New Frontier at Sundance Film Festival

from indiewire by brian brooks Fourteen installations from artists including James Franco and Lance Weiler are set to take part in the 2011 edition of New Frontier at Sundance Film Festival. Now in its fifth year, the event brings together established and emerging artists from film, art, performance, gaming, and new media technology to the […]

indieWIRE does lunch at TIFF

indieWIRE does lunch at TIFF

Do Lunch! Live at the Lounge with indieWIRE Daily in Toronto by indieWIRE Insiders at the Toronto International Film Festival and fans from around the world can connect daily with filmmakers and stars in Toronto each day at a new lunchtime series. Live at the Lounge with indieWIRE, a daily interview series, is launching tomorrow […]

Cinetic Doing Day & Date With SXSW Films on FilmBuff

by Eugene Hernandez at indiewire.com Two British films, one documentary and one narrative thriller set for the upcoming SXSW Film Festival, will be released digitally, day and date with their premieres at the festival in Austin this month. The films will first hit broadband VOD during the event and then debut on cable VOD two […]

Steven Beer: A Decade of Filmmaker Empowerment Coming

Steven Beer’s take on the coming decade of independent film distribution. Originally printed at indiewire.com For many independent filmmakers and producers, 2010 – starting with the upcoming Sundance Film Festival – figures to be a watershed year and the beginning of a Decade of Filmmaker Empowerment. After years of disenchantment with traditional all-rights distribution deals, […]