Screenings are for IFP members (and one guest) only on a first-come, first-served basis. A printed copy of your membership card (which can be accessed by logging in here) is required for admittance.
After a four year wait, as of May 16, 2016, crowdfunding portals can finally begin to operate and raise investment funds for film and other enterprises. For the first time, producers will be able to offer funders a share of the profits of a project, including low budget films. Until …
While the United States Constitution does not contain a single mention of a right to privacy, the United States Supreme Court has held that such a right is implicit in the Constitution and Bill of Rights. The right of privacy has been defined as the right to live one’s life …
Viewing the brain as “an operating system with glitches,” Benjamin Dickinson’s Creative Control spins a futuristic, Brooklyn-set tale about the virtual complications and distractions of man. Experimenting with a pair of highly specialized eyeglasses known as the Augmenta, David (played by Dickinson), an ad exec with a curiosity …
Before you decide to purchase the rights to a person’s life story, it is worth considering what you are buying. When you buy the rights to portray someone in film or television, you are buying a bundle of rights. These rights include protection from suits based on defamation, invasion of …
Markets and festivals are not the same. Some filmmakers may find the difference confusing because the Berlin and Cannes Film Festivals operate concurrently with an adjoining film market. Sundance is a festival but an informal market of sorts has grown up around the festival with distributors bidding to acquire rights …
Filmmaker Claire Carré participated in the 2014 IFP Independent Filmmaker Labs with Embers, her first feature film.
Tomorrow I’ll be flying to Park City to screen my first feature Embers as the Closing Night Film of the 2016 Slamdance Film Festival. For many American filmmakers, getting a rejection letter (or for the …