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The first video off of Slash‟s #1 Rock Album SLASH...   READ MORE >>>
 
 
Burns Family Studios won the "2009 Indie Best of Show" award at the Indie Fest for its recent release ....  READ MORE >>
 
 
The Chickasaw Nation has won a prestigious "Best of Show" award from The Indie Fest for the feature film Pearl. This true story of a Chickasaw girl from Oklahoma ....  READ MORE >>
 
 
Audience response to “Pearl” screenings at AFI Dallas International Film Festival was “extremely positive,” said producer Dave Rennke. ....  READ MORE >>
 
 
Pearl, the true story of a Chickasaw girl from Oklahoma who became the youngest licensed pilot in the U.S. in 1928, will be screened 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10 at the International Cherokee Film Festival ....  READ MORE >>
 
 
After decades storyboarding commercials coast to coast, Frank Kasy is segueing into storyboarding films and painting film posters ....  READ MORE >>
 
 
Sacramento, CA — Everyone wonders how to find love and once you have found it, how to make love last. The “Secrets To Love” documentary, featuring Actress...   
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‘Bronx Paradise’ Writer Wayne Gurman tells an honest Bronx tale, warts and all
“’It’s my life,’ said Gurman, 43, bald and athletically-built. “I was a cocaine dealer, and a bookie.”  ...   
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Industry News & Press Releases
PassmoreLab Signs $200 Million Deal to Convert Grizzly Adams’ Library to 3D...   READ MORE >>>
 
 
REV WAR BIOPIC INKS DISTRIBUTION DEAL ALL FOR LIBERTY...   READ MORE >>>
 
 
Call for Entries: The Smalls Street Sounds Filmmaking Competition...
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(La Jolla, CA, 03/10/10) - The Indie Fest is proud to announce the latest winners. The awards go to those filmmakers who produce fresh, standout ...
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Movieset.com- the movie marketing digital media platform that integrates with your production process to build a core audience from development through distribution- and it’s free. .....
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With a lot of competitions appearing for filmmakers, we want to tell you about the best ones…     READ MORE >>
 
 
(La Jolla, CA, 12/08/09) - The Indie Fest is proud to announce the latest winners. The awards go to those filmmakers who produce fresh, standout ...
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Distributor House of Film is making its debut at AFM under the leadership of noted independent film exec Ava B ...
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Michael O‘Rourke‘s first short film ― Refuge of Dragonflies - received two Awards ...
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(La Jolla, CA, 09/12/09) - The Indie Fest is proud to announce the latest winners. The awards go to those filmmakers who produce fresh, standout ...
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The People‘s Choice Awards (PCA) and American Film Market (AFM) have teamed to create an unprecedented Favorite Film Pitch contest....  READ MORE >>
 
 
(New York, NY) "The Mattress Hustle," a short film Directed by Susan Watson Turner, will be screened at the 2009 Imagenation Film Festival at St. Nicholas Park in Harlem, Monday, August 10...  READ MORE >>
 
 
“Amazónico soy” premiado en Indie Fest de Estados Unidos...  READ MORE >>
 
 
July 12, 2009 Award-winning Writer, Actor, and Director, Peter Wick has completed photography of his third feature, titled Rock Paper Scissors. Rock Paper Scissors has received four grants... READ MORE >>
 
 
(La Jolla, CA, 06/10/09) - The Indie Fest is proud to announce the latest winners. The awards go to those filmmakers who produce fresh, standout ...
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THE MATTRESS HUSTLE
The Mattress Hustle," a short film Directed by Susan Watson Turner, will be screened at the 2009 Reel Women Festival in Los Angeles, Saturday, March 28 at 8p.m....
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Award-winning filmmaker Peter Wick has received...
four grants from Seattle's Northwest Film Forum to shoot his next feature - his third - Rock Paper Scissors, in June of this year...
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Independent’s Fight Back
IFTA’s Members are virtually unable to license their films and programs to television in the United States since the studios, broadcast and cable networks have combined into a few large conglomerates. These same forces threaten the opportunities for independent programs on the Internet.

We have raised our concerns about the negative effect of media consolidation on the public’s access to independent and diverse programs to Congress and the Federal Communications Commission. That message now will be renewed to the Obama Administration.

Here you will find information, videos and a petition to the new FCC. Please take a look, sign the petition, and pass it along to others who care about independent media!

To raise awareness of this vital issue, we have launched a new website:

www.FightForIndependents.org

And please check back often for news.
 
 
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 An Easy Place to Meet Distributors
American Film Market
Santa Monica, CA – November 03-10, 2010


The American Film Market (AFM) is the conference to attend if you’re an independent filmmaker with a feature film or feature documentary seeking distribution. Pay the $295 for the Half-Market badge and you’ll be able to freely meet face-to-face with scores of distributors....


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NATPE heads to Miami Beach in 2011

NATPE (National Association of Television Program Executives) is taking its 2011 television market next January to the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach. Over the years NATPE has evolved toward increasing involvement by Latin American television professionals. With the Latin American’s in mind, NATPE’s transition to Miami seems logical as many such potential participants have offices and homes in Miami which will save travel and lodging expenses. Recently the 1,500 room Fontainebleau Hotel underwent a reported $1 billion renovation.

For more information about NATPE 2011 go to: http://www.natpe.org/natpe/
 
 
Newport Beach Film Festival Preview

By Laurie Smith

Celebrating its 11th year, the Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF) gears up for a much-anticipated week of exciting films, seminars, filmmaker Q & A sessions and special events, April 22 through 29. The festival features more than 350 films from 47 countries, and is expected to draw a record crowd.

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Cannes Film Market: Marché du Film

May 12-23, 2010


(The following information is quoted from the Marché du Film website: ww.marchedufilm.com)

Jérôme Paillard, Executive Director, Marché du Film

“The Marché du Film represents an essential event for all the film industry’s players. Once more, producers, sales companies, distributors, film professionals as a whole, will benefit from an event specifically designed for them. A unique opportunity to meet, to exchange ideas, in a word for projects to progress; an invaluable resource to face the world’s current changes in technology and economy.”

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NATPE: New media platforms bring big opportunities for filmmakers and television producers

As Bill Clinton’s campaign staff said in the ‘90s, “It's the economy, stupid”. The elephant in the room at this year’s NATPE (National Association of Television Program Executives) television market was the estimated 2,000 participants as compared to the 6,500 record in 2008. Needless to say the surviving distributors were selling to fewer rights buyers from around the world. That was the bad news.

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NATPE Announces Final Line-Up of Speakers for
2010 Market and Conference: Begins January 25th


The National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) has announced the final line-up of speakers and activities scheduled for its annual Market & Conference at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas January 25-27. Click to www.natpemarket.com.

More than 250 global industry leaders and innovators in content creation, cross platform production and distribution, advertising, marketing...

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Filmmaker Robin Peters at AFM

by Yayoi Lena Winfrey

Dreams are a way of life for filmmaker Robin Peters. The owner of Dreamscape Cinema knows how important it is to have a dream and the hard work it takes to make it come true. At the age of 12, Peters was just dreaming about becoming a filmmaker. But by the time he was 30, his dream came true when he made his first film. Peters has been making movies ever since. With six feature films in distribution, and many more in various stages of development and production, the busy filmmaker vows to never stop dreaming about making more films.

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Filmmaker Bryan Hall’s take on AFM 2009

Here's my take on AFM this year. I went with a finished film in hand, Paper Boys, a hip, irreverent teenage boy's coming-of-age film with a serious main story and a series comic ensemble relief. Forty-five screeners were distributed about a month before the market and a little bit of validation of the film's merit from a few festivals and awards. Our film had no known actors and was for the most part, a drama, but could be marketed for its comic relief much like Fast Times at Ridgemont High or Dead Poets Society.

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After the Market
2009 American Film Market

by Yayoi Lena Winfrey

Even as the American Film Market (AFM) celebrated its 30th anniversary, an economic pall seemed to spoil the party. In spite of 8,000 attendees from over 70 countries participating in the ten-day buying and selling frenzy, it appeared that festive excesses of the past were no more.
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Filmmaker Chris Abell’s Talks About AFM 2009

by Chris Abell

In 2005 I attended the AFM as an attendee with no film, no finished script and quite frankly no idea what I was doing there. It seemed I had been hurled into a bizarre world of film I had not prepared for. Only upon my return to the 2009 AFM with a finished feature film did I truly understand the complexities of the business surrounding film and my role in it. I felt more like a business man than a film maker.

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