The Independent is Back!
As you may have heard, Independent Media Publications has come forward to take over the online and print publication of…
As you may have heard, Independent Media Publications has come forward to take over the online and print publication of…
Ohio-based filmmakers Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert’s 3-hour and 45-minute documentary A Lion in the House follows five families with…
In 1975, when a small group of energetic filmmakers convened the Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers in their living…
When I started to write this article, I began with a David Letterman-esque list of 20 reasons we need AIVF….
Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size Me (2004) was an unqualified hit. The documentary, which followed Spurlock as he ate nothing but…
The Last Shot The mobs were ferocious and loud. They were beating policemen, looting government buildings, and smashing the cameras…
In 1998, I joined the production team of Julie Gustafson’s Desire, a documentary about teenage girls from three diverse New…
Shortly after Jean-Luc Godard released Breathless in1960, an exasperated journalist said to the young director: “Surely you think that a…
There is a mystique to filmmaking—the silvery light that reflects off the screen, the way the story shapes a character’s…