DAILY NEWS: NY Film Fest Concludes; AFF Fest Plansby Eugene Hernandez and Brian Brooks/indieWIRE>> New York Fest Closing With Grand Marnier Fellowships
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Read More »DAILY NEWS: New This Week: Fall's Indie Rush Beginsby Anthony Kaufman(indieWIRE/10.10.01) -- This week's independent field is cluttered withnew releases, from avant-garde and documentary, to auteurist and Indiewood.You want challenging French art film, you got it. You want American indiemusical, you got that, too. Within the crowded slate of new films, lessthan half are from studio-financed specialty outfits. The rest comes froma hodgepodge of self-distributed pictures, new indie distribs, and arthousestandbys like Artistic License -- many of whom pushed back dates afterSept. 11 and finally hit theaters this week.A company like Artistic faces...
Read More »NYFF 2001: Entertainment, Politics and Movies that Matterby Farrin Jacobs(indieWIRE/10.09.01) -- Although the "Making Movies That Matter" panelat this year's New York Film Festival was conceived of long before theevents of September 11, the attacks and their aftermath were front andcenter, informing every question, answer, and conflict at the event onSaturday morning. Coming nearly a month after the tragic events -- andjust a day before the U.S. officially began its large-scale strike --the panel brought together a lively mix of filmmakers, executives andcultural critics. With the likes of Christopher Hitchens and Oliver Stonein the house, i...
Read More »NYFF 2001 REVIEW: On the Road Again: David Does The City of Angels in "Mulholland Drive"
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Read More »IFP MARKET 2001: Docs, Politics and Other Films, After Sept. 11thby Eugene Hernandez/indieWIREAlthough it's been business as usual at the market, the events of the11th of September have cast their shadow deep into the mindsets of bothfilmmakers and buyers. Wednesday's panel "Docs in the InternationalMarketplace -- What Sells?" brought this home. While acquisitionsexecutives and commission editors are also struggling to come toterms with appropriate material to buy or commission, execs from theBBC, Canal+, Arte, ITVS, Denmark's TV2, The Passionate Eye, and distributor Films Transit tried to answer a few questions.The BBC's Nick Fraser unveile...
Read More »NYFF 2001 REVIEW: Cantet Takes "Time Out" for a Masterpiece
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