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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

Short interviews with the heads of some of the most exciting new companies such as Dylan Marchetti (Variance Films) and Josh Braun (Submarine Entertainment) working in independent film & media today. Hear about their work, and the ways they are working to make change for independent media makers. The panel …

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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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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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Hobbit Titles: An Unexpected Journey in Confusion

by Mark Litwak on January 3, 2013

Warner Brothers, New Line, and its affiliates (“Plaintiffs”) recently achieved a rare courtroom victory by obtaining a court order restraining distribution of a film they claimed unfairly competed with one of its titles. The target of their ire was The Global Asylum’s (“Asylum”) film The Age of Hobbits. Asylum was …

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Vicky & Lysander – From NYU Dorm to LogoTV OR A Tale of Two Lovers

by Damon Cardasis on December 20, 2012

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You never quite know where something will lead.  We wrote a ridiculous 5 minute sketch in college about a self proclaimed “power couple,” took those characters and created an “interactive dinner party/performance art piece” (as some folks have said), and have …

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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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Alrick Brown on Breaking into the Industry

by Jacob Appet on October 10, 2012

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Alrick Brown discusses breaking through the wall that surrounds the film industry and shedding our senses of entitlement.

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