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• Indie Spirit Award Nominees Announced

  
  Armchair Commentary — Authority: 495
  Precious and The Last Station topped the Independent Spirit Award nominations today. Theyll both battle for Best Feature along with (500) Days of Summer , Amreeka and Sin Nombre . The awards air Friday, March 5 on IFC. Heres a list of the major nominees. -- Ellen BEST FEATURE (500) Days of Summer ...
  5 days ago

• The Horrors of Retail: The Strip

  
  J.B. Spins — Authority: 134
  Guess what, working for minimum wage really blows. Those of us with retail experience on our resumes know that already. Still, writer-director Jameel Khan reminds us once again of the unalloyed joys of dealing with moronic customers and uptight managers in his new film The Strip (trailer here ) , which opens this ...
  6 days ago

• Gotham Awards 2009

  
  Alternative Film Guide — Authority: 442
  2009 Gotham Awards2009 Gotham Award nominations: Oct. 19, 20092009 Gotham Award winners: Nov. 30, 2009 in New York City("*" denotes the winner in each category) The Hurt Locker by Kathryn Bigelow Best Feature AmreekaCherien Dabis, director; Christina Piovesan, Paul Barkin, producers (National Geographic ...
  1 week ago

• Official Best of Fest

  
  Buzzine — Authority: 481
  Do you ever get the slithering suspicion that movies are getting worse every year in leaps of unfairly large increments? When you sign into your Netflix account, do you feel dismayed about the safe, expected selections you’re asked to pick from? Does Judd Apatow really make every movie these days or what ? The ...
  1 week ago

• FILMMAKING VIDEO: Better than Free – a talk by Brian Newman (former CEO Tribeca Film Institute)

  
  Film Directing and Film Making Tips for the Independent Filmmaker — Authority: 134
  “The Internet is a super-distribution machine that allows copies of digital media to flow in an almost frictionless way. As the wealth and survival of traditional media businesses are built on selling precious copies, the free flow of free copies is undermining the established order. If reproductions of media are ...
  1 week ago

• Heads Of Major Movies Studios Claiming They Just Want To Help Po...

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 169
  Im beginning to sense a trend. Just last month, we talked about a top exec at Paramount claiming that his "real worry" about movie piracy online was how it was going to harm indie films , since, as a big company, Paramount could take it. Then, just a week or so later, Sony Pictures boss, Michael Lynton, also started ...
  1 week ago

• Kevin Smith 3 Movie Blu-ray Collection review

  
  Film Fetish — Authority: 143
  Jason Mewes - Kevin Smith and Ben Affleck in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back On November 17th, Miramax released a trio of Kevin Smith’s best cult classics, including Clerks, Chasing Amy and Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back. It was a pleasure revisiting these three gems in the Blu-ray format, and the hefty serving ...
  1 week ago

• How Movie Reviews Affect Independent Film Financing

  
  Your Online Security Authority Blog — Authority: 490
  Hollywood and the financial environment of independent cinema are changing because there are many new technologies that have altered the filmmaking and movie reviews process. It used to be that only a little over 900 production and film financing distribution partners invested in Indie Films through private ...
  2 weeks ago

• GKIDS to distribute The Secret of Kells in the US

  
  Art Institute — Authority: 164
  Communaut Franaise de Belgique et des Tldistributeurs Wallons, Promimage and Wallimage. GKIDS distributes indie films for family and art house audiences and is a longtime producer of the New York International Childrens Film Festival. The Secret of
  2 weeks ago

• SAG Indie :: Good For Actors And Indie Filmmakers

  
  HOLLYWOOD ACTOR PREP — Authority: 122
  Remember Melissa Leos acting nomination, at last years Oscars? That was a SAG Indie film. Shes been in at least 3 indies, this year. Big and smaller acting roles. Heres a video with actor Tom Bower. He started SAG Indie, and shares all about it...Related Articles, Auto-generated: SAG Actors Explain Why This Is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Crazy Heart – Trailer

  
  Film Fetish — Authority: 143
  Four-time Academy Award® nominee JEFF BRIDGES stars as the richly comic, semi-tragic romantic anti-hero Bad Blake in the debut feature film CRAZY HEART from writer-director Scott Cooper. Bad Blake is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who’s had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Trailer for Jeff Bridges’ Crazy Heart

  
  Film Fetish — Authority: 143
  Four-time Academy Award nominee Jeff Bridges stars as the richly comic, semi-tragic romantic anti-hero Bad Blake in the debut feature film Crazy Heart from writer-director Scott Cooper. Bad Blake is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who’s had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and ...
  2 weeks ago

• First Look: Crazy Heart (2009) Movie Trailer Starring Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal

  
  Just Press Play — Authority: 465
  Crazy Heart is a story about a down-on-his-luck, alcoholic country music singer ( Bridges ) who, through his relationship and experiences with a female reporter ( Gyllenhaal ), is able to get his life and career back on track. Bridges’ character plays mentor to a hotshot contemporary country star ( Colin Farrell ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dare

  
  Reel Artsy — Authority: 125
  Im pro Zach Gilford and Emmy Rossum as a movie couple. Is it wrong to say that I want them typecasted? Not really, but I enjoy seeing them play the "nice guy" and "the-girl-next-door." Gilford is seriously adorable on Friday Night Lights and they just look so cute together. Dare is a drama centered around three ...
  3 weeks ago

• Indie film spotlight: The Strip

  
  Film Fetish — Authority: 143
  Rodney Scott and Jenny Wade run towards something better in The Strip The Strip, which opens in theaters on December 4th, is a character-driven comedy dissecting the lives of five employees of a fictional low-end electronics chain called Electri-City. The ensemble of colorful, yet grounded, characters takes us deep ...
  3 weeks ago

• Fetish Filmfestival announces winners

  
  Gloria's Oversexed Mind — Authority: 440
  The annual Fetish Filmfestival in Kiel, Germany has announced its 2009 award-winners, and my friends there asked me to share the good news here. Fetish Filmfestival is the annual presentation of films related to bdsm and erotic fetishes in Germany American filmmaker Julie Simone was the glamourous star of the ...
  3 weeks ago

• New York City Horror Festival returns seeking to uncover more ghastly gems

  
  Film Fetish — Authority: 143
  Scene from The Familiar The New York City Horror Festival – one of America’s largest and most recognized genre film festivals focused on horror and science fiction – returns to The Big Apple from November 19th through the 22nd. Each year the NYCHFF – which was established by director/producer Michael J. Hein ...
  3 weeks ago

• Patzer

  
  Reel Artsy — Authority: 125
  In the mood for an uber indie film? Heres an offbeat short from some filmmakers out of Michigan.  Patzer tells the story of Max, a college student who cannot seem to shake off a bad day. I know a couple people from the film but I think its cute nonetheless. It definitely fits the quirky, multicultural vibe ...
  3 weeks ago

• There Will Be Blood

  
  Teds Take — Authority: 606
  Gulp. This article in Time.com is quite sobering although I saw this coming and it is why we started SnagFilms. These films need a new distribution model and the filmmakers and investors need a way to generate revenues other than ticket sales. Independent films are a species deserving of being kept alive and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Low-budget filmmaker bemoans indie movie industry

  
  Film Directing and Film Making Tips for the Independent Filmmaker — Authority: 134
  “Today’s independent film industry isn’t independent at all, says Kelley Baker, also known as the Angry Filmmaker. “I’m angry with the way the independent film industry works … They all have Hollywood stars and big budgets,” said Baker, who will be speaking at Dormont’s Hollywood Theater Sunday. “So ...
  3 weeks ago

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