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indieWIRE Turns 10

Looking for Conservative Docs

Given the wide-range of left-leaning documentaries, why isn't there a complementary number of conservative ones seen at film festivals or ultimately in theaters? Thats the question asked in a New York Times piece today by John Anderson who explores the liberal bias in U.S. documentaries and wonders where the right-wing films are. Noting that festivals like Sundance, Seattle, IDFA, or the NYFF simply don't receive such films, he quotes Wash Westmoreland (director of the upcoming narrative feature "Quinceanera" and the recent doc "Gay Republicans"), The thing that drives you to make a documentary is seeing it as a way to social change. Societie...

U.S. Eyes Growing Russian Film Industry

Anticipating what could be double-digit growth in the next five years, a number of U.S. companies and producers have their eyes on the Russian film industry. According to a New York Times piece by Laura M. Holson and Steven Lee Myers: Russia's movie industry, following a torpid decade that mirrored ...

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First Person: indieWIRE @ 10, And Counting...

When we launched indieWIRE ten years ago today, July 15, 1996 we immediately began to try to define the term "independent film." In the very first issue we wrote about the sale of the Angelika Film Center to a local New York movie circuit and we've debated the term 'independent' internally and on ou...

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