Another successful IFP Film Week has wrapped up in Brooklyn, and thanks to outlets like Filmmaker Magazine, No Film School, and IndieWire, we have a number of event recaps to help educate those who were unable to attend:
This Week’s Good Reads: IFP Film Week ’16 Edition
My IFP Film Week Experience, Part 1 and Part 2 (via Isabel Sandoval for Filmmaker Magazine)
“Swingers meets The Hunger Games” – The Lingua Franca filmmaker’s diary of her time at Film Week.
How to Find Your Audience in the Digital Age: Alternative Distribution (via Sophia Harvey for No Film School)
A discussion of new (and old) ways to get your content in front of viewers.
The Power of 16mm: Directors and DPs Talk at IFP Film Week (via Audrey Ewell for Filmmaker Magazine)
The pros and cons of shooting on film.
The Fits: Why Oscilloscope Took a Leap of Faith on the Low-Budget Sundance Hit (via Sophia Harvey for No Film School)
How this micro-budget coming-of-age film hit theaters.
What Directors Can Learn from Actors: Antonio Campos and Rebecca Hall on Christine (via Sophia Harvey for No Film School)
Inside the collaborative effort behind BorderLine Films’ newest project.
Rose McGowan’s DIY Empire: Actress Reveals She Sold TV Show To Amazon, But There’s More (via Chris O’Falt for IndieWire)
A recap of the actress/filmmaker/shit-stirrer’s IFP sitdown.
Reading, Rejection and Relationships: Hot Tips from Three IFP Film Week Panels on Agents, Financing and Festivals (via Audrey Ewell for Filmmaker Magazine)
Three panel recaps for the price of one.
What Happens to Cinema in the Age of VR? (via Charles Haine for No Film School)
How storytelling will change with technology.
Hello, My Name is Doris: How to Produce a $1M Comedy Hit that Earns $14M at the Box Office (via Sophia Harvey for No Film School)
How the Michael Showalter/Sally Field comedy became the 4th highest-grossing indie film of 2016.
Why Having the Right Agent Could Make or Break Your Movie (via Graham Winfrey for IndieWire)
Talking representation (and not in the “diversity” sense).
UPDATED to include:
The Witch Team Takes To IFP Week To Discuss The Film’s Hellish Beginnings (via Mark Burger for IndieWire)
Insight into the making-of the breakout indie horror hit.
The Wanted and the Ones Who Want: Financiers and Distributors Offer Advice at IFP Film Week (via Meredith Alloway for Filmmaker Magazine)
Who’s buying what movies, and why.
New Releases
Movies from our September Movie Picks out this week:
- Closet Monster (Strand Releasing)
- The Dressmaker (Amazon Studios/Broad Green Pictures)
- Girl Asleep (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
- Goat (Paramount Pictures/The Film Arcade)
- The Lovers and the Despot (Magnolia Pictures)
- The Magnificent Seven (Columbia Pictures)
- My Blind Brother (Orion Pictures/Starz Digital Media)
- Queen of Katwe (Disney)
A video worth watching
Art House Theater Day (Sept 24) brings great movies to your town (via Fox News)
How ’bout you? Read anything good this week?
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