Laura Poitras, the filmmaker behind two of the most searing documentaries to cover the post-9/11 period, is currently working on the third film in her terror trilogy. Poitras has been in the news recently after Salon's Glenn Greenwald used her case as an example of the ways that journalists and ...
Read More »With the dark comedy "Teddy Bears," first-time feature filmmaking duo (and spouses!) Thomas Beatty and Rebecca Fishman revisit the tough year leading up to their marriage for all the world to see. Talk about creative marriage counselling. "We were both ready for it to be very dif...
Read More »When Diane Crespo, who directed the 2007 indie friendship film "Arranged," received the script for "Clutter," she was enthralled. "When you have a production company, you get a lot of scripts," Crespo told Indiewire. "You get three pages into a script, ...
Read More »Ever since she was a teenager, Arab-Canadian filmmaker Ruba Nadda ("Cairo Time") has been thinking about the actor Alexander Siddig ("Sammy and Rosy Got Laid," "Start Trek: Deep Space 9").
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Read More »Unlike Matt Reeves' U.S. adaptation of the Swedish horror flick "Let the Right One In, "Stake Land" director Jim Mickle's adaptation of Jorge Michel Grau's "Somo Lo Que Hay (We Are What We Are)" will be more of a reimagining than a remake. "Somo ...
Read More »In "The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby," Joel Edgerton plays a restaurant owner and Jessica Chastain plays his wife, who is going back to college. But this isn't just another indie romance; it's two films, "The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: His" and "The Disap...
Read More »When "American History X" helmer Tony Kaye handed Adam Kretzman the script to "Attachment," he said, "This movie will do for Sharon Stone what 'The Wrestler' did for Mickey Rourke."
Read More »When the Montana Film Office launched a contest, Pitch the 406, to encourage filmmakers to pitch the office on shooting a film in Montana, they didn't know their judges would choose Montana natives. That result reflects well on what is proving itself to be an interesting place for filmmake...
Read More »Rooftop Films is a nonprofit, New York-based outdoor film festival series; among the ways they support filmmakers is renting movie projectors. And in 2007 they got a call from a woman named Marie Castaldo who wanted to rent equipment for her Queens International Film Festival.
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