I am very excited to be attending the NYLIFF this year, which begins tonight with a screening of SOLO DIOS SABE , which stars sexy Diego Luna of Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN infamy. The festival, which is partly sponsored by HBO (who also sponsor the great Full Frame [...]

It’s interesting that indie filmmakers aren’t the only ones grumbling about distribution and how crummy theatrical exhibition can be! The owner of the Dallas Mavericks (Basketball team!), Landmark Theaters and Magnolia Pictures is Mark Cuban, who has a reputation as a bit of a maverick himself. He’s offering a job to anyone who [...]

This past Thursday night, July 20th, marked the second successful collaborative event with the Woodstock Film Festival and Makor . We screened Chris Deutsch’s fine documentary, The Last Western . The film, about the strange, only-in-California postmodern tourist attraction/Western movie backdrop Pioneertown, was a hit with the audience members, among [...]

A recent Times article brought these three sites to my attention- Blogging Beirut, Cedarseed’s Live Journal, and a moving entry on You Tube - all created by kids in Lebanon and Israel. The YouTube entry, as a child maintains a plucky demeanor while bombs are heard going off in the distance, is chilling. Considering we [...]

Last night while having dinner, my boyfriend Asher and I were talking about the Indiepix.net distribution model and how unorthodox and empowering it is to filmmakers. I am also a documentary filmmaker, making a documentary called Island to Island: Returning Home From Rikers . As I was saying to my boyfriend, no documentary filmmaker, [...]

Over at his blog, Caveh Zahedi writes about his experience in distributing his DVD. He found out that in the world of distribution, marketing wins:
The upside of going with The Weinstein Company is that the DVD will be in more stores than it would be otherwise, and in fact they have been very accomodating. [...]