The Weinstein Company Gears Up for the Oscars…Already

How soon is too soon to start your Oscar game plan? With the Weinstein Company, perhaps it never is.

Tribeca Review: The Kill Team

The Kill Team is a groundbreaking documentary that kept me on the edge of my seat the entire run time.

SXSW | Preliminary Reports are In…

It really is spring break for filmmakers.

We Make Movies Helps You Make Movies

“It’s not ‘what goes around will come around,’ it’s, ‘what you put in is what you get out.’ We want to have it be a meritocracy. If you’re good, it happens organically that people notice and things get made.” – Co-Founder of We Make Movies, Sam Mestman

(Sundance) Snap Review: Robot & Frank

An unlikely friendship forges between a cranky retiree and a slick new robot.

Middle of the Room

Meredith Danluck’s “North of South, West of East” Puts You There

(Sundance) Snap Review: Sound City

Musician/Director Dave Grohl documents the rise and decline of the famous “Sound City” studio in California through interviews, music and images.

Review: Hank and Asha

Slamdance premiere showcases a sweet cyber-love story.

The Deals @ Sundance 2013

The deals at Sundance. Independent Film is alive

(Sundance) Review – SHOPPING

Shopping manages to take a great location and original plot and turn it into a mess

Eliza Hittman brings the gritty back to the girls in IT FELT LIKE LOVE

Q&A with IT FELT LIKE LOVE writer-director Eliza Hittman

(Sundance) Breakout ‘The Spectacular Now’ Acquired

A24 Acquires Sundance breakout THE SPECTACULAR NOW

(Sundance) Day 3 | BREATHE IN

Felicity Jones and Drake Doremus are at it again… and it’s good.

(Sundance) SKYLAN BROOKS steals the show in THE INEVITABLE DEFEAT OF MISTER AND PETE

SKYLAN BROOKS has all the ingredients to be a star

(Sundance) Day 2 Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes & I Used to Be Darker (aka Mothers and Daughters)

A look at the much talked about ‘Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes’ and ‘I Used to Be Darker’

Slamming it in Park City: Slamdance is Stronger than Ever in Year Nineteen

“What was it that lead the group of you to start Slamdance? On what basic, independent principles did you found it,” I ask.

“Rejection,” he says.

Leap of Feature

Happy holidays. Happy reflections. For an indie filmmaker reflection can sometimes be completely and utterly depressing. Especially when they’re the type of filmmaker that looks back and sees six shorts under their belt, four credit cards maxed out and one feature in a MacBook.

Top of My List… | Sundance Films on the Horizon

This past week, Sundance 2013 announced their festival lineup in all categories. Check out my picks for ‘Most Anticipated Sundance Films.’

Snap Review of ARBITRAGE

Richard Gere is a corrupt hedge fund titan trying to cover up a mess that could land him in jail and jeopardize his family’s future.

Snap Review of The Queen of Versailles

The Queen of Versailles takes a subject that one might find on a Bravo reality show and turns it into a truly complex, captivating portrait.

Review: Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same

Madeleine Olnek gives her audience an odd and endearing look into the often hazy world of falling in and out of love. And she does so from another world, literally – the planet Zots.

‘Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry’ | Alison Klayman’s Provocative Doc

The Sundance award-winning documentary premieres tomorrow in select cities and on IFC Films InTheaters.

Independents Day: The Four Best Indie Films Between July 4, 2011 and July 4, 2012

In honor of the oh-so-American holiday and independence at its very core (chasing after your dream, the pursuit of happiness, and all that mush), here is a list the best indies of the year, released between the last two July 4ths in the United States.

I AM NOT A HIPSTER – Sundance…Then What?

I AM NOT A HIPSTER takes on the world, after Sundance.

Alvaro Orlando Takes His Gloves Off for ‘Counterpunch’

A Q&A with Alvaro Orlando about producing, writing and starring in his film ‘Counterpunch,’ and other general riffraff.

Sundance Directors Lab: Top Pickings

Sundance Announces Participants for June Directors Lab

Pretty. Smart. – Can A New Generation of Women Change Hollywood?

Steadily and slowly, a new group of young and fiercely ambitious females are knocking on the doors of top production companies like HBO, Apatow Productions, and in general permeating the entire indie community.

Snap Review of THE RAID

THE RAID is one bad ass movie. A 90 minute adrenaline rush, I left the theater saying “holy sh*t can I go again.”

I AM NOT A HIPSTER’s Destin Cretton talks about his start in film

In an in an exclusive interview and after the success of I AM NOT A HIPSTER at Sundance 2012, director Destin Cretton gets a second to breathe and tell us how he got started.

Indie Spotlight: Bingham Ray: The Man. The Legend. Certainly not a myth…

We pay respects to the late Bingham Ray, a legend in the indie film space