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Getting your short onto the festival circuit

by Mike Plante on June 27, 2013

You’ve just made a short film. The good news is: you may be able to get as many people to see it in a movie theater as an independent feature film does. Bad news is: that doesn’t pay anything. Distribution is a word usually saved for feature films. But short …

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Better Film Panels Now

by Mynette Louie on May 16, 2013

Producer Peter Phok and I speaking on a panel at IFP’s Filmmaker Conference.

 

In the year and a half since Brian Newman wrote his very apt and memorable post, “Killing the Film Fest Panel,” panels haven’t improved much. In that time, I’ve spoken on or moderated over a dozen panels, …

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Top 10 lessons I’ve learned as a SXSW newbie

by Dara Bratt on March 19, 2013

I was super excited when I learnt that my short documentary “Flutter” was accepted to SXSW.  After weeks of prepping postcards, business cards and posters, it was time to go.

My buildup to departure was full of anxiety. With full east coast snowstorm alerts, it wasn’t a sure bet I’d make …

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Highlights from the Film Bazaar

by Priyanka Kumar on December 3, 2012

This year, my feature script INCOGNITO was an IFP partnership project at the Film Bazaar in Goa, India. INCOGNITO is the story of a seventeen-year-old girl who teams up with her father to help the Pakistani Prime Minister—on a secret pilgrimage to India—dodge an assassination attempt.

November 18, 6:40 am. At …

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Case Study: The Non-Traditional Festival Run of Social Justice Doc “Brothers on The Line”

by Sasha Reuther on July 2, 2012

When I set out to produce my first feature-length documentary, Brothers On The Line, I knew that a tricky funding and distribution road lay ahead. Narrated by Martin Sheen, the film explores the lives of my grandfather and great-uncles, Victor, Roy, and Walter Reuther, firebrand labor organizers and social justice …

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David Dinerstein on Social Networking

by Cait Carvalho on April 12, 2012

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David Dinerstein discusses how social networking can prove to be a tremendous tool.

From the 2011 Independent Filmmaker Conference.

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Writer’s Roundtable

by Cait Carvalho on March 30, 2012

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What is Indie Today? New Trends in American Independent Filmmaking

by Dan Schoenbrun on March 23, 2012

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