For years, filmmakers flocked to the Cannes Film Festival to sell their independently financed movies, confident they’d soon see their work exhibited in movie theaters. Like so many show business dreams, those visions have been vanishing quickly as numerous distributors of film-festival fare closed their doors after losing money or corporate support. But there’s a [...]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Border smuggling crime movie “Frozen River” won best picture and breakthrough acting awards at the Gotham Independent Film ceremony on Tuesday, as well as sharing top billing in nominations for the Spirit Awards for independent filmmakers. Melissa Leo, 48, was named by IFP, organizer of the Gotham awards, as breakthrough actor [...]
MOVIES may be pure entertainment but financing them is serious business, and as movie-making opportunities increase in Singapore and other less-mature markets in Asia, finding the funds to fuel the process will be crucial to the health of the industry. Even as new media emerges on a seemingly daily basis to provide viable alternatives to [...]
When one thinks of movies you think of the big movies, or maybe movies that you still remember from childhood but the movies that really get my blood pumping are independents.