Archive for the 'Indie' Category

• e  13 One Too Many Mornings screening

  ‘ll be leading a Q&A with the filmmakers, talking not just about the film but the challenges and opportunities in making and releasing a microbudget movie

• e  15 Prepping for the Directors Close-Up panels

  Tonight and next Wednesday, I’ll be hosting the Director’s Close Up panels for Film Independent. Tonight’s director is Jason Reitman, joined by cinematographer Eric Steelberg, editor Dana E. Glauberman and composer Rolfe Kent. We’ll be talking about Up In The Air, Juno and Thank You For Smoking.

• e  13 Watching OTMM

  One Too Many Mornings is lo-fi funny, a mumblecore Swingers, with a refreshingly clear sense of what it is.

• e  33 One Too Many Mornings

  An indie at this year’s Sundance Film Festival will let you download the movie the day after it premieres.

• e  9 Sundance Roadshow

  For this coming year’s festival, Sundance will be taking eight features and their filmmakers out to eight cities across the country on January 28th — before the awards are even given out.

• e  23 Making Christian movies

  Is it a good idea to focus on making a movie for Christian audiences?

• e  15 Taking indie films on the road

  Todd Sklar is back with Range Life, taking eight indies on tour around the country.

• e  4 Principles of Hybrid Distribution

  A new article by Peter Broderick articulates a lot of the points I try to make to filmmakers with truly indie films.

• e  55 A hard time to be an indie

  As a counterpoint to the utopian bliss of the Sundance Filmmakers Lab, I’ll direct your attention a speech given by James D. Stern] last week on the present and future of indie film.

• e  8 10 Sundance shorts on iTunes

  Ten of the 80 short films featured this week at the Sundance Film Festival are available free on iTunes until January 25th. It’s a great way to see some work you’d almost certainly never catch.

  Visit itunes.com/Sundance to check out trailers and download. (Link opens in iTunes store.)

  I’m happy to see shorts featured this way, and [...]

• e  13 Why no one is buying your indie film

  Anne Thompson’s Variety article on the challenging market at Sundance this year is worth a read for anyone considering the indie route.

  I’ve written several times about my festival experience with The Nines, and how the classic paradigm of how indie films get bought and distributed is almost a myth. Most Sundance movies don’t sell, [...]

• e  6 Splinter, tonight

  Following up on my earlier post about alternative distributions for indies, Splinter has its debut on HDNet Movies tonight, in anticipation of its theatrical roll-out this weekend. (And in competition with a certain presidential candidate’s national address.)

  I haven’t seen the movie, but it got a nice review today in Variety, and awards at Screamfest.

• e  8 Indie film, cont’d

  How some are navigating distribution of indie fare.

• e  5 What do you do when the buzz fades?

  You made a movie. Get the most you can out of it, then get cracking on doing the next project.