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What Purpose Does the Short Film Serve in Your Career?

by Clay Liford on March 6, 2013

IFP was obviously having a slow news week, so they asked me to write a little something about short films. I’ve cranked out several shorts to date, and I guess you can say I “graduated” to features…in the sense that I made three of them, at least. But recently, I …

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My Brooklyn: A Case Study in Viable Theatrical Self-Distribution

by Dan Schoenbrun on March 4, 2013

My Brooklyn will be opening for a 3rd week run at the reRun Theater in DUMBO Brooklyn. For tickets click here.

Kelly Anderson and Allison Lirish Dean’s My Brooklyn, a documentary about the forced gentrification of Downtown Brooklyn’s Fulton Mall, opened theatrically this past January as part of IFP’s new partnership …

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Sundance Programmer Mike Plante On Going Places with Short Films

by Mike Plante on February 25, 2013

The notion that making a short film is just practice for a feature has never made sense to me. Every time you write a story or dialogue, work with actors and crew, or edit image and sound, you are making important artistic decisions. To think that the end product would …

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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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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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Top 10 Things Learned in the IFP PMD LAB

by Jon Reiss on December 20, 2012

Jon Reiss at the 2012 IFP Narrative Lab

 

I have had the good fortune to be involved in IFP’s Independent Filmmaker Labs for the past several years now and I have seen innumerable benefits to the films and filmmakers who participate.  The Labs provide an opportunity for first-time filmmakers to not only …

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Jonathan Lisecki on Producing Shorts vs. Features

by on October 17, 2012

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Jonathan Lisecki on why producing shorts can be more relaxing.

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Ry-Russo Young on Filmmaking Influences

by Jacob Appet on October 3, 2012

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Ry-Russo Young gives us insight into her process.

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