RIDM ’14: The Use and Abuse of Poetry in Documentary Film
Gusts of bitingly cold wind eat away at the inch of precocious snow on the ground, offering a fittingly bracing…
Interviews
Filmmakers and Their Global Lens: Hal Hartley
In the second edition of our new series, Filmmakers and Their Global Lens, The Independent’s special contributor Dana Knight speaks with the…
Filmmakers and Their Global Lens: Eugene Green
In this first edition of our new series, Filmmakers and their Global Lens, The Independent’s special contributor Dana Knight interviews…
FNC 2014: Hybrid Filmmakers find Common Ground
Montreal’s Festival du Nouveau Cinema (FNC) is a festival that doesn’t like to be put into neat and tidy boxes….
Inspired by Personal History, Hong Khaou Releases “Lilting” to US Audiences
In Hong Khaou’s Lilting, available on DVD and VOD September 29th, a mother grieves for her son by getting to know her son’s partner. Khaou told The Independent his debut feature came, “from a place that’s deeply personal, especially that of grief. I lost my dad when I was 12 and the character in the film loses her son. So I had to expose myself in a certain way writing this.”
TIFF 2014: Safdie Bros Borrow From Life on NY Streets in “Heaven Knows What”
Heroin addiction and life on the New York streets take center stage in Josh and Benny Safdie’s latest, Heaven Knows What. The morning after their North American premiere at TIFF, they riff on the why and what of it all with the film’s star and inspirational scribe, Arielle Holmes.
TIFF 2014: The Cinema Guild is Evolving with Cinephiles On and Offline
Sprinkle a little adamant optimism over a new digital partnership with The Flaherty Film Seminar and a heaping embrace of the educational market, and you have a few of the most recent distribution strategies that The Cinema Guild’s Ryan Krivoshey discussed with The Independent’s Courtney Sheehan at TIFF.
Michael Apted Talks “Bending the Light” and the Move from Film to Digital
Michael Apted talked with Canon’s factory workers and artisans in Japan, as well as the filmmakers who have used those lenses, in his latest documentary, Bending the Light. Rebecca Reynolds caught up with him (on camera!) at the Traverse City Film Festival.
CIFF’s Points North Adds a Fellowship for Docmakers
This year, Camden International Film Festival’s annual Points North Documentary Film Forum adds a new documentary fellowship opportunity. Five full-package fellowships will be announced in early September.