Crowdsourcing is coming to this year's San Francisco Women's Film Festival, the Bay Area's annual celebration of recent contributions to documentary, LGBT, and dramatic film. Indie-Fest recently opened an online screening competition sponsored by the film forum and marketplace IndieFlix.…
Continue Reading →Tonight the San Francisco Film Society will play host to a screening of Handmade Nation, a documentary about the work and connections between independent artists across the country. Made by first-time filmmaker and craft blogger Faythe Levine, the film focuses…
Continue Reading →One of the most compelling projects at this year's Sundance Film Festival was Nollywood Babylon, a movie about Nigeria's film industry (after Hollywood and Mumbai-based Bollywood, it's the third largest in the world but has the highest volume). With Lagos…
Continue Reading →Gary Hustwit is an independent filmmaker, but probably not the kind you're used to. For his directorial debut, he made a film about the typeface Helvetica. Now, it's a beloved font and all, but a whole movie? Well, that's the…
Continue Reading →Few marketing emails begin with the salutation, "hello friend of disposable film." Welcome San Francisco's recently founded Disposable Film Festival highlighting work captured on one-time use digital video cameras, webcams, point and shoot digital cameras, cell phones, screen capture software,…
Continue Reading →Remember Superflex? The Danish art group that came up with the free beer concept? Well get ready for some more self-descriptive titles for their two new projects. Flooded McDonald's and Burning Car are two films they've created for South London…
Continue Reading →Green Light Flix, a vegan-friendly community of animal rights activists and environmentalists, has opened the doors of their film studio to member participation in the creation of podcasts, videos, and web content. The Florida-based, fan-managed studio is more of an…
Continue Reading →Filmmaker Ryan Gielen had the idea for the coming-of-age film "The Graduates" (essentially, high school buddies travel to Ocean City for one last hurrah and female attention) as well as locations and a cast. What he didn't have was money…
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