Irish director Lance Daly had something to prove with his latest feature "Kisses," which is getting a limited theatrical and VOD release next Friday. With two projects under his belt ("Last Days in Dublin" and "The Halo Effect"), Daly was set on upping the ante by ...
Read More »"We really only completed the film a couple of days before we found out we were closing Edinburgh," "Third Star" director Hattie Dalton told indieWIRE days before her film debuted at the Scottish film festival. "So we literally had just finished the mix and everything, and I was in this stage of sti...
Read More »Chase Whiteside and Erick Stoll can count the number of videos they have posted onto YouTube on their fingers. The same can’t be said for the number of times their videos have been viewed on the site: four million plus and counting. Two undergraduates from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, Wh...
Read More »Among film philanthropic group Cinereach's most recently announced grantees was the debut feature project by artist, short filmmaker, professor, and festival curator Liza Johnson, "Return." indieWIRE spoke with Johnson in late May about the project, the unique perspective her art school background b...
Read More »The story of a poor girl in the Ozarks tracking down her convict father who put up the family home to make bail might be a tough sell on paper... That is, had the necessary ingredients of good directiion, script and a real tour de force for a lead been absent. Thankfully for "Winter's Bone," which a...
Read More »When SXSW Film Festival producer Janet Pierson introduced filmmaker Jeff Deutchman's debut doc, "11/4/08" at the fest in March, she said that upon hearing that the young acquisitions executive had made a film, she was immediately curious. Introducing Deutchman at the world premiere, Pierson noted th...
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