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Cultural Weekly’s 2011 SUNDANCE SCORECARD
Updated: Monday, January 30, 2012 Welcome back to the empty slopes, the full theatres, the late-night parties, the later-night deals, the hopes dashed, the careers made, the swag, the stars, the Fast...
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Indie Films at 7,000 Feet
Gritty and winsome, polished and raw, excitable and flat-lined: indie movies have multiple personalities. If they were a character in one of their own films, they’d be the bipolar one, always in a...
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Tanya Wexler and ‘Hysteria’
Hysteria is a romantic comedy set in Victorian England about the birth of the vibrator and the choice that Mortimer Granville (Hugh Dancy) faces between a life of comfort and complacency versus one of...
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7 Signs of the Indie Film Renaissance
Chris McGurk, Chairman and CEO of Cinedigm, soberly delivered this highly intelligent, analytical address as the keynote of the LA Film Festival. In it, he lays out why indie films are poised for a...
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Johanna Demetrakas’‘Crazy Wisdom’
Chogyam Trungpa, the brilliant “bad boy of Buddhism,” fled the invasion of Tibet, studied at Oxford, and shattered Westerners’ notions of how an enlightened teacher should behave. Was it crazy wisdom...
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How We Made a Successful Indie Movie and Got It Out There
While it is harder and harder for indie filmmakers to get their films made these days, it’s still possible – if you keep your eye on the ball, understand the emerging business model of digital product...
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Why I Left New York for the San Francisco Film Festival
Ted Hope, one of the heroes of America’s independent cinema movement, just signed on as Executive Director of the San Francisco Film Society. He has produced close to seventy feature films including...
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What I Learned in Tennessee
Interstate 40, which connects Nashville and Knoxville, is probably a nice enough drive if you concentrate on the rust-colored trees instead of the chain hotels, but it was pelting rain and the...
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Passport to A Global Adventure: The 56th Annual San Francisco International...
Everyone and his cousin has heard of Sundance Film Festival. Cannes, Telluride, Toronto, and Venice film festivals share equal notoriety. What you may not know is that San Francisco plays host to one...
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Sundance Infographic 2014: Are Indies the “8th Studio”?
With an annual production budget that exceeds $3 billion, independent movies rival the major studios’ spend on filmmaking, even as indies vastly outstrip the studios in sheer volume. That’s a key...
View ArticleIndian Independent Films: Stuck in Transit
We live in the mall culture. We eat pastas, drink Indian Cappuccinos and carry an iPhone. We tweet, we Facebook, we Whatsapp. We talk about women’s liberation, and we look for sweet virgin girls to get...
View ArticleIndie Films at 7,000 Feet
Gritty and winsome, polished and raw, excitable and flat-lined: indie movies have multiple personalities. If they were a character in one of their own films, they’d be the bipolar one, always in a...
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Tanya Wexler and ‘Hysteria’
Hysteria is a romantic comedy set in Victorian England about the birth of the vibrator and the choice that Mortimer Granville (Hugh Dancy) faces between a life of comfort and complacency versus one of...
View ArticleIndie Film Renaissance … 7 Signs It’s Here
Chris McGurk, Chairman and CEO of Cinedigm, soberly delivered this highly intelligent, analytical address as the keynote of the LA Film Festival. In it, he lays out why indie films are poised for a...
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Johanna Demetrakas’‘Crazy Wisdom’
Chogyam Trungpa, the brilliant “bad boy of Buddhism,” fled the invasion of Tibet, studied at Oxford, and shattered Westerners’ notions of how an enlightened teacher should behave. Was it crazy wisdom...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How We Made a Successful Indie Movie and Got It Out There
While it is harder and harder for indie filmmakers to get their films made these days, it’s still possible – if you keep your eye on the ball, understand the emerging business model of digital product...
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Ted Hope: Why I Left NYC for the San Francisco Film Festival
Ted Hope, one of the heroes of America’s independent cinema movement, just signed on as Executive Director of the San Francisco Film Society. He has produced close to seventy feature films including...
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What I Learned in Tennessee
Interstate 40, which connects Nashville and Knoxville, is probably a nice enough drive if you concentrate on the rust-colored trees instead of the chain hotels, but it was pelting rain and the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Passport to A Global Adventure: The 56th Annual San Francisco International...
Everyone and his cousin has heard of Sundance Film Festival. Cannes, Telluride, Toronto, and Venice film festivals share equal notoriety. What you may not know is that San Francisco plays host to one...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sundance Infographic 2014: Are Indies the “8th Studio”?
With an annual production budget that exceeds $3 billion, independent movies rival the major studios’ spend on filmmaking, even as indies vastly outstrip the studios in sheer volume. That’s a key...
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