Well here we go again, Gang. The 3rd annual L.E.S* Film Festival is right around the corner, June 13th-23rd, here in NYC’s Lower East Side.
L.E.S* began in 2011 in an effort to support and showcase low budget filmmakers, specifically. We sold out all our screenings and were placed on New York Magazine’s …
Legal issues may be the most remote worry that keeps independent filmmakers up at night. There are often more tangible and immediate stresses: finding financing, getting film festival screenings, building positive publicity and momentum for a film, and securing distribution arrangements. For filmmakers who have a few minutes to polish …
Roxo and Leite – Knocking It Out
an interview about two rising stars and one new web series by Danielle Lurie
Alexandra Roxo and Natalia Leite are simply too fierce not to succeed. Just take a look at their company profile photo. It’s of the two of them, stylish, poised, and hidden elusively behind …
In early February, my small edit team and I relocated from my base in San Francisco to the fog-bound woods along the Mendocino coast. We were tasked with bringing our loose assembly of my doc-in-progress – which, at the time, clocked in at a dense and daunting 11-hours– …
I recently chatted with Brave New Wild director Oakley Anderson-Moore about our upcoming Independent Film Week, and how we work to share new work from up and coming filmmakers (and experienced filmmakers!) from all over the U.S. She shares our conversation, and her own experiences at Independent Film Week last …
Amanda Wilder’s “Approaching the Elephant”
Last Friday evening I was walking with Chantel Elassaad, IFP’s Development and Programming Coordinator, after the first energizing and exhausting week of IFP’s Documentary Labs. Approaching the Elephant, my film about a group of children at a free school where rules are created democratically and …
As an entertainment attorney, I am often called upon to assist writers who have gotten themselves into trouble because they do not understand how their work may infringe the rights of others. A writer who learns the fine points of the law through trial and error is receiving …
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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