When we asked the 2013 Tribeca filmmakers what schools they went to, we were not expecting such a diverse crop of responses. While a fair number did not attend film school, NYU was heartily represented. Boston University, Tel Avivi University and the program at University of Florida (now at Wake F...
Read More »Though crowdfunding is a huge conversation in the indie film industry, we've been consistently surprised at how few festival films are crowdfunding (thought that seems to be changing). When we asked the Tribeca filmmakers if they crowdfunded, we also asked them how much of their budget was raised o...
Read More »When we asked the 2013 Tribeca filmmakers what software they edited on, we got the usual jabs at Final Cut X (though the team behind "Mr. Jones" specifically said they used the much-maligned software, and others may have used it but not specified they did). We also got a lot more Avid users than we...
Read More »Last month's Tribeca Film Festival was a good year for the relatively young fest that has taken a while to get its stride. We invited many of the filmmakers at the festival to share with us a few choice facts, and below are the results of the question "What camera(s) did you shoot on?"
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Here's your daily dose of an indie film in progress; at the end of the week, you'll have the chance to vote for your favorite.In the meantime: Is this a movie you'd want to see? Tell us in the comments.
Read More »They may not have realized this but more than forty-six thousand individuals – many of them ordinary Americans with no prior film industry knowledge – had a direct bearing on what has been happening this past week thousands of miles away at the Cannes Film Festival. Not so much on the rain-sodden re...
Read More »Here's your daily dose of an indie film in progress; at the end of the week, you'll have the chance to vote for your favorite. In the meantime: Is this a movie you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments. "Unsolved" Tweetable Logline:
Read More »Filmmaker Adam Green ("Frozen," "Hatchet") explains how he created and now writes, produces, directs and stars in a sitcom for horror fans.
Read More »Here's your daily dose of an indie film in progress; at the end of the week, you'll have the chance to vote for your favorite. In the meantime: Is this a movie you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments. "Lily & Kat" Tweetable Logline:
Read More »The May flowers have bloomed and we're on our way into summer; it's now time to choose one of our Projects of the Week to be named May's Project of the Month. The project that receives the most votes for Project of the Month will receive a consultation from our Project of the Month partner, Tr...
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