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The Top Ten So Far...

Each week, indieWIRE receives the final weekend numbers for specialty releases in theaters. This is our top ten for the three day weekend so far, with most numbers already in. The top ten is subject to change before the final chart is published tomorrow and the weekly box office column is written. W...

INDUSTRY MOVES: Shutt & Jones Join Participant

Professional partners for decades, Buffy Shutt and Kathy Jones have joined Participant Productions as EVPs of marketing at the company. First up for the pair is Brett Morgen's doc, "Chicago 10," which will open the Sundance Film Festival next week. Shutt and Jones have served in tandem atop studio P...

PARK CITY '07 INTERVIEW | Sterlin Harjo: "I wanted to make a film about Indian characters that suffe

[EDITORS NOTE: indieWIRE is publishing two interviews daily with Sundance '07 competition filmmakers through the end of the festival later this month. Directors with films screening in the four competition section were given the opportunity to participate in an email interview, and each was sent the...

Helen Hill: 1970 - 2007

Independent filmmaker Helen Hill (36) was shot and killed on Thursday (January 4, 2007) in New Orleans, LA where she lived. Hill, and her husband Dr. Paul Gailiunas, were both shot at their home in the city. Gailiunas survived the attack, as did their young son. An obituary was published Sunday in South Carolina, where Hill will be buried this week. In a Renew Media bio, Hill is described as an animator whose work has screened at numerous festivals, including the Ann Arbor, Vancouver, and Atlantic festivals. She was a founding member of the New Orleans Film Collective and a regular instructor. A lengthy bio online noted that she graduated fro...

gurus: picture and prayers

David Bowie

D.I.Y. red carpet

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