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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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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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Savoring the Small Moments at Sundance 2013

by Dan Schoenbrun on January 29, 2013

This January’s Sundance Film Festival was my first, and though I came armed with a three-inch binder’s worth of printed out screening schedules, flight itineraries, custom made Google Maps, and much, much more, I quickly learned that it was the kind of thing that you just can’t quite prepare for. …

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In Praise of Doubt

by Amy Dotson on January 29, 2013

It turned out to be incredibly prophetic that my first day in Venice, Italy as one of the leaders for the Biennale College-Cinema was spent at collector François Pinault‘s incredible Punta della Dogana. This beautiful museum opened in 2009, with its closest neighbor – the Santa Maria della Salute Church- …

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IFP Distribution Lab Recap: The Final Frontier

by Oakley Anderson Moore on December 19, 2012

It had been two days since the last day of the IFP Distribution Lab – ending the yearlong 2012 IFP fellowship for 10 documentaries and 10 narrative films from first-time directors.  With two days left in New York, I found myself sitting in a small theater in Brooklyn looking nervously …

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IFP Sends First Partner Project to DIFF

by Peter Bussian on December 18, 2012

As the first IFP representative partner project to the Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF), SCARLET POPPY – a cross cultural love story set in Afghanistan between an American and a conservative Pashtun woman who is also being pursued by a local Talib – was in the company of other partner …

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