Start Production Already!
by Ibrahim Mahdi on March 14, 2013This content is for IFP members. Please login to view.
MembersSundance Programmer Mike Plante On Going Places with Short Films
by Mike Plante on February 25, 2013The 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 …
Beasts of the Southern Wild Case Study
by Ibrahim Mahdi on February 7, 2013Benh 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 …
Top 10 Things Learned in the IFP PMD LAB
by Jon Reiss on December 20, 2012Jon 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 …
Highlights from the Film Bazaar
by Priyanka Kumar on December 3, 2012This 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 …
The Early Days of Video: A Conversation with Jon Alpert & Keiko Tsuno
by IFP Staff on October 3, 2012DCTV Co-Founders Jon Alpert and Keiko Tsuno discuss their beginnings in filmmaking during the early days of video and what drove them to start DCTV in 1972.
Keiko: I came to this country to study fine arts and my main interest was video, so I bought Sony’s first black and white …
Director Azazel Jacobs on Following Your Passion
by Cait Carvalho on September 12, 2012Azazel Jacobs (Director, Terri) discusses how crucial it is to make the films that you believe in.
From the 2011 Independent Filmmaker Conference.
No Budget? No Problem!
by Adam Bowers on August 30, 2012Not to toot my own horn (I can’t anyway, since it was stolen by those circus freaks), but I recently shot my first commercial, through IFP’s Emerging Visions competition. It was my first shoot with any sort of budget, unless you count the time I bought a pack of gum …
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