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Producer Robert Profusek on Building Buzz at Slamdance

by Robert Profusek on February 15, 2013

I had an amazing opportunity to return to Park City this year with my film WITHOUT SHEPHERDS. I was more than excited as not only was I going public with the first documentary film I had produced, but I was playing Slamdance for the first time in my career.

Without …

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Indie film distribution in a digital world: A master class w/Dylan Marcetti & Josh Braun

by Justin Ferrato on February 14, 2013

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Filmmaker David Lowery on “Ain’t Them Body Saints”, Sundance 2013 & the Power of Persistence

by David Lowery on February 14, 2013

In the days and weeks leading up to our film’s premiere at Sundance, I pulled from the shelf my dog-eared copy of Steven Soderbergh’s sex lies and videotape diary, which I’d purchased from a second-hand bookstore my sophomore year in high school and devoured (along with the screenplay included therein) before …

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Writing the short film: Making it something special

by Kat Candler on February 12, 2013

 

Kat Candler is writer-director based in Austin Texas, Kat’s award winning films have screened at Sundance, the Los Angeles Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, SXSW, Slamdance.
 

IFP so sweetly asked me to do a few write-ups on “Making Short Films”. I’m certainly not the expert by any …

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Beasts of the Southern Wild Case Study

by Ibrahim Mahdi on February 7, 2013

Benh Zeitlin’s fantastic allegory “Beasts of the Southern Wild” started as a play, was grounded in a short film, cast with non-actors, filmed on the bayou, and was produced by a bunch of friends from college and before. It premiered at Sundance, won the Grand Jury Prize and got picked …

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Spurlock Sisters at Biennale College Cinema: Week Two

by Kim Spurlock on February 4, 2013

For the Spurlock Sisters’ first blog entry, visit: http://filmmakermagazine.com/64191-spurlock-sisters-at-biennale-college-cinema-part-one/

They say that creative works are never really finished, we just let them go at some point.  I guess that’s what deadlines are for.  The new versions of step outline, budget and schedule for A Case of the Dismals were due a …

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IFP Alum @ SXSW 2013

by Justin Ferrato on February 1, 2013

We’re so thrilled about the 2013 South by Southwest Film Festival’s line up and congratulate our IFP Alumni who will premiere at the festival!

IFP staff will be present throughout the festival, stay tuned for updates if you’ll be at SXSW and come say hi!

Below is a list of the filmmakers …

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Henry Bean on Writing Dialogue

by Jacob Appet on February 1, 2013

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Henry Bean warns against flashy dialogue.

From the 2012 Script to Screen Conference.

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