After attending the Sundance Shorts Lab at BAM this past Sunday, I couldn’t help but feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of people wanting to write, direct, or produce a short and submit it to the Sundance Film Fest. For 8,000 submissions, there are only 80 films that …
You’ve just made a short film. The good news is: you may be able to get as many people to see it in a movie theater as an independent feature film does. Bad news is: that doesn’t pay anything. Distribution is a word usually saved for feature films. But short …
The right of publicity is the right of individuals to control the use of their name and likeness in a commercial setting. You cannot place an image of another person on your brand of pickles without their permission. Celebrities can earn large fees from this right by endorsing products. Some …
There’s increasingly a lot of talk about Transmedia storytelling; the idea of taking pieces of a story and systematically putting them across different media touch points for the purposes of creating a unified and coordinated entertainment experience. But why is Transmedia storytelling important for independent filmmakers in particular?
The digital revolution …
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 …
