Film Festivals: AtomFilms
“Shorts are cool and we want to make them a viable part of the entertainment spectrum,” says Mika Salmi, founder…
Film Festivals
Film Festivals: Always Independent Films
“We accept all formats,” explained Always Independent Films (AIF) president Gary Zeidenstein. “We do have a screening process, [but] as…
Mark Borchardt: The (Other) Indie Prototype
During the Q&A after the first screening of American Movie at Sundance, director Chris Smith hailed his subject Mark Borchardt…
Film Festivals: How To…
My desk is festooned with the fruits of two previous Independent Feature Film Markets: a cupful of pens, buttons, a…
Off the Beaten Track: the Blair Witch Project
We’re kind of a garage band of filmmaking," says Dan Myrick of his collaborators, an Orlando, Florida-based film collective called…
War Stories
When the year was young, the hot topic was Monica, not Kosovo. So at the Sundance Film Festival in January,…
EURO DOLLARS IN DEMAND:
Dozens of Dutch speed skaters with awesome quads whip by as I gently push a Yankee filmmaker and novice skater…