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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.

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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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BAMcinematek Presents The Susan Sarandon Picture Show Closing Night & Conversation

A Quick Chat with LES Film Festival Judge Susan Sarandon

by lesfilmfestival on March 13, 2012

LES Film Festival 2012 is WELL UNDERWAY at this point (if you’re reading this between March 6 – 18, 2012) and, as you can imagine, we have been working round the clock taking care of every detail. We have to remind ourselves to pause, breathe (above all BREATHE for God’s …

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IFP at SXSW

by Dan Schoenbrun on March 7, 2012

IFP proudly congratulates its 17 alumni films premiering at this year’s SXSW Film Festival, including five from our Independent Filmmaker Labs: Matt Ruskin’s Booster (Narrative Labs 2011) in Narrative Competition; Avi Zev Weider’s Welcome to the Machine (Documentary Labs 2011) in Documentary Competition; and Nir Paniry’s Extracted (Narrative Labs 2011), …

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Reading Sundance 2012

by hollyherrick on February 15, 2012

The Sundance Film Festival ended two weeks ago, but the conversations it started will be continuing and evolving throughout the year, as this year’s films travel on to the rest of the world. Sundance is always a milestone. It marks chapters in our own lives as we see a new …

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