Keith David, Justin Etheredge Reflect On Life In Indie Movie “Good” Trailer by Alex Billington July 29, 2021Source: Youtube “There is always something in this life that you haven’t done.” Gravitas Ventures has unveiled an official trailer for an indie drama titled Good, the second feature film directed by up-and-comingRead More →
I spent the last week in New York having face-to-face business meetings with entertainment executives after having been unable to make direct contact for the past 15 months. The last time I was in Manhattan was in February 2020, just before COVID-19 started wreaking havoc in my favorite city awayRead More →
How many more zeitgeists can you get than a movie adapted from a viral Twitter feed? Not least that begins, “You all wanna hear a story about why me and that bitch ran into it?” Zola, a scary fairy tale / nightmare about two strippers on a bizarre weekend inRead More →
It was reported earlier this week that actor Judy Greer will star in an independent film titled My beauty. The latest is that actor Christine Ko (Dave) will star alongside Greer in the film. My beauty is directed by Nicholas Ma, who also wrote the screenplay with Joy Goodwin. TheRead More →
Bombay, July 26 Singer-songwriter Guru Randhawa is set to make his acting debut. The 29-year-old, who has so far featured in music videos, will be seen for the first time in a musical feature film in Hindi. The story of the film revolves around a young musician’s tumultuous journey fromRead More →
Bombay, July 26 Singer-songwriter Guru Randhawa is set to make his acting debut. The 29-year-old, who has so far featured in music videos, will be seen for the first time in a musical feature film in Hindi. The story of the film revolves around a young musician’s tumultuous journey fromRead More →
Thanks to Cinemalaya and the PCC, the Filipino film industry stays afloat Some say that Filipino cinema is dying, but we are not giving up, at least not the Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival, which supports the lives of young Filipino filmmakers in the making. While the world is stillRead More →
Lydia Lunch on stage, in a scene from the documentary “The War Is Never Over”. Photo courtesy of Kino Marquee “Short, sharp, precise shots with brutal precision.” This is how Lydia Lunch describes the music of her longtime debut band, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks. And while the singer, poet,Read More →
Ste. Michelle announces $ 1.2 billion acquisition A love for Ste. Michelle’s wine seems to be spreading all the way to the east coast. Ste. Michelle Wine Estates recently announced that a New York-based private equity firm, Sycamore Partners, will acquire the company for an estimated $ 1.2 billion inRead More →
Noel David Taylor’s independent film The man under the table will be available to Arrow subscribers in the US, Canada, UK and now Ireland! The independent film about independent filmmaking will premiere on August 2. We showed off the teaser trailer for Taylor’s movie ahead of its world premiere atRead More →
The rapidly changing entertainment landscape is creating new strategies in the independent film space, changes only accelerated by the pandemic. During the Variety & IndieWire broadcast room presented by Vuulr, executives from Neon, IFC Films, Pops, Struum and Vuulr agreed that one way to understand these changes is to acceptRead More →
“The Catch” is one of many films made in Maine shown at the Maine International Film Festival. Photo courtesy of MIFF Currently in full screening of a carefully curated selection of the best films in the world, until Sunday, the venerable Maine International Film Festival is officially back. Of course,Read More →
Acclaimed Polish director and President of the European Film Academy, Agnieszka Holland, has expressed growing fear in the world of independent cinema: that global streamers could kill theatrical cinema. Speaking via video link at a Cannes Film Market panel on Thursday, Holland called streaming platforms a “great unorganized black holeRead More →
PHILADELPHIA – Two new curated film series arrive at the Philadelphia Film Society Drive-In at Navy Yard and the Film Society’s Film Center, showing films such as “Legally Blonde,” “Indiana Jones,” “The Lord of the Rings,” and more. The Philadelphia Film Society has announced the launch of the 20th AnniversaryRead More →
LAS VEGAS (FOX5) – Details have been released for the Beverly Theater, an independent movie house and performance theater that will open in downtown Las Vegas in mid-2022. The project begins in the fall on 6th Street near Bonneville Avenue, according to the Rogers Foundation, which is fully funding theRead More →
Mason Engel during a stop in “The Bookstour”. Photo courtesy of Mason Engel If you’re making a major documentary showcasing all the best independent bookstores on the East Coast, you’re going to come to Portland. Sure enough, first-time author and filmmaker Mason Engel ended up interviewing the good folks atRead More →
Executives Elissa Federoff, President Distribution, Neon; Arianna Bocco, President, IFC Films; Marissa Hanafi, OTT Manager, Pops; Thomas Hughes, CEO of Americas, Vuulr; and Lauren DeVillier, co-founder and CEO of Struum, will join the panel “The State of Independent Film in the Age of Streaming” on July 13 at the veryRead More →
When you’re from Texas and starting a production company in Texas, why not start by going back to your roots? This is what Fort Worth filmmaker Derek Presley does with White tail, a southern gothic thriller inspired by his upbringing that marks the first feature film of the Muscular PuppyRead More →