Advance Look at New Directors/New Films
For the past 38 years in Manhattan, The Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art have…
New York
Exhibitor FAQ: Amherst Theatre
The Independent launches its new series of Exhibitor FAQs to provide resources and advice on how to get your film…
For Inspiration, Judd Ehrlich Looked to the Subject of His New Film, “Run For Your Life”
While vampires made a big splash at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, a documentary about a son of Transylvania carved…
The Doc Doctor’s Anatomy of a Successful Film: “Divan”
About this new column: Many filmmakers ponder in anguish, How do other people—celebrated people—do it? Am I taking too long…
Making Room
I’m the director of the low-budget psychological thriller Room (2005), which premiered at Sundance and had its international debut in…
LA Film with a View
In New York, a rooftop is not merely a rooftop. Part refuge, part observation deck, the roof is where New…
Spice Market
I am white and alone in a darkened room at night with over four hundred Dominicans in New York City….
Chaos Below Canal
New York City: the one place on earth that may, at least in the eyes of its own citizens, come…
Film Festivals: The IFP Market’s Silver Anniversary
A painter who hijacks billboards for subversive messages against corporate advertising; a man trying to convert his car to run…