The Peabody Award Winners: Watch Trailers and Clips
The full list of 2007 George Foster Peabody Award winners was released on April 2. The winners include films such…
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Download This: The Future of Distribution is Just a Click Away
Video blogs, vodcasts, YouTube — in many ways it seems that independent filmmakers have taken the internet by force. But…
The DVD Isn’t Dead… At Least Not Yet
With a call for shorts for Independent Exposure 2008 open through the end of the month, The Independent wanted to…
The Doc Doctor’s Anatomy of a Film: “I Was a Teenage Feminist”
About this new column: Many filmmakers ponder in anguish, How do other people—celebrated people—do it? Am I taking too long…
Alex Karpovsky’s “Woodpecker”: The Perfect “Ficumentary”?
Filmmaker Alex Karpovsky is sure to leave reviewers scrambling for a dictionary in an attempt to define the hybrid genre…
“Prince Among Slaves”: Recreating History on a Budget
Prince Among Slaves, which aired in February on PBS as part of public television’s Black History Month programming, is the…
Watch Clips from the Oscar-winning Docs, Shorts, and Animated Shorts
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE No End in Sight (Magnolia Pictures) A Representational Pictures Production Filmmakers: Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs The…
Writer’s Strike: A Conclusion
As the Writers Guild of America Strike seems to be finally nearing its end after three months, The Independent offers…
The Doc Doctor’s Anatomy of a Film: “51 Birch Street”
About this new column: Many filmmakers ponder in anguish, How do other people—celebrated people—do it? Am I taking too long…