Category Archives: Indie Film

You don’t call, you don’t write…

Written by Keith. Posted on March 28, 2010. Filed under Career, Directing, Indie Film, The American People, Writing. Tagged , . No comments.
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It’s been a while, huh? I took a few weeks to finish up my feature script. I had a deadline from the Sundance Labs and was able to get it in (albeit just a bit late). I’m happy with the draft. It’s not completely done but I believe I solved a few of the act [...]

New Indie Rules

Written by Keith. Posted on January 7, 2010. Filed under Emerging Filmmakers, Financing, Indie Film. Tagged . No comments.
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We are on the verge of a new film culture and infrastructure, driven by both the creators and the audiences. We must accept that being a filmmaker means taking responsibility for our films all the way through the process. Building the new infrastructure is the first step towards real media independence. —Ted Hope Ted Hope [...]

When Films Got Small

Written by Keith. Posted on November 2, 2009. Filed under Financing, Indie Film. Tagged , , , , . No comments.
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In his column at CNET, Greg Sandoval interviews Big Champagne’s CEO Eric Garland about the impending doom and destruction of the film industry. Or rather, The Apocalypse: The end of overwhelming Industry control of content, distribution and making all that money out there in Hollywood. Of course, there is no such thing. There is no [...]

Object of my Desire

Written by Keith. Posted on October 25, 2009. Filed under Indie Film, Photography. Tagged , . No comments.
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So after a few posts about how everything is gonna change… I’d like to share one of the instruments of that change: The Canon EOS-1DMKIV I’m gonna refrain from posting the camera specs but take a look here at Gizmodo. To be honest I just wanna get to the footage. The film was shot by [...]

End of Hollywood Memo

Written by Keith. Posted on October 25, 2009. Filed under Box Office, Career, Financing, Indie Film, the Internets. Tagged , , , . 3 Comments.
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Came across this “memo” from CNET to the “industry” about the “End of the world as Hollywood knows it” and it just tickled the hell out of me. And as far as I’m concerned, it’s all true… and I can’t wait. Like my wonderful sister says, “Nothing changes if nothing changes.” Here’s an excerpt: End [...]

Indie Conversations

Written by Keith. Posted on September 22, 2009. Filed under Emerging Filmmakers, Indie Film, Inspiration, the Internets. Tagged , , , , , , , . 1 Comment.
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The good folks over at Shadow & Act (thanks Tambay) recently posted a podcast of a conversation between emerging indie filmmakers Dennis Dortch and Barry Jenkins . Both of these filmmakers have released well-traveled feature films in the past year or so. The conversation covers where they are now including various triumphs and pitfalls they’ve [...]

WHUF Needs UR $$$

Written by Keith. Posted on September 5, 2009. Filed under Financing, Indie Film. No comments.
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A creative request for your recession dollars from filmmaker Terence Nance. Via BGN.

Kickstarter

Written by Keith. Posted on August 26, 2009. Filed under Financing, Indie Film, the Internets. Tagged , . No comments.
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***Ozark, Alabama Circa 1989*** “Well, looks like they solved the energy question.” …The phrase skipped past my ears. I glanced up and caught my step-father leaning in the doorway of the “tv room”. (as we used to call it) He was talking to me. Me: “What”? Pops: “I saw it on the news earlier. A [...]

D.O.S. (Death of Shorts)

Written by Keith. Posted on August 24, 2009. Filed under Career, Indie Film, No Reason, Shorts. Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , . 4 Comments.
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“The Most Beautiful Man In The World” Written and Directed by Alicia Duffy I’ll be brief: I hate short films. And… here it comes… “But you’re a filmmaker” “Didn’t you dig making them all the time in film school? No? Really?” “Well, don’t you like to practice your craft?” “Man, how’re you gonna get noticed [...]

Tyler Perry Did It

Written by Keith. Posted on July 25, 2009. Filed under Directing, Financing, Indie Film, Inspiration, The American People. Tagged , , , , , . 2 Comments.
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“Tyler Perry is the first African-American to own a film studio.” What? Really?! See, I’m not sure when I heard it but someone said it last night. I happen to flip past and caught the last segment of CNN’s Black In American part 2 and I heard it. My first thought was really? Is that [...]

Mystery Team

Written by Keith. Posted on July 20, 2009. Filed under Indie Film. Tagged , , . No comments.
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…and from the mind of Derrick comes this little gem. I heard it killed at Sundance and I’m glad it finally got picked up. I like this guy Donald Glover (former 30 Rock writer… for those of you…) Coming in the fall…

Mid-Year Report (not mine)

Written by Keith. Posted on July 8, 2009. Filed under Box Office, Financing, Indie Film. Tagged , . No comments.
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Specialty Box Office Winners & Losers? Below is a mid-year roundup of top grossing specialty or indie films. To be honest, I actually found this depressing and then oddly exciting… What’s the budget of your next feature film? Check out the full article on indieWire. 1. Sunshine Cleaning (Overture Films) – $12,055,108 2. Away We [...]

Chinese Curses

Written by Keith. Posted on June 2, 2009. Filed under Create Everywhere, Financing, Indie Film, Inspiration. Tagged , , , , , . No comments.
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“May you live in interesting times.” We’ve all heard this old Chinese curse by now. Well, for indie filmmakers and consumers this is right where we’ve found ourselves. It also makes me think about a quote I came across the other day by computer scientist and Disney/Pixar exec Edwin Catmull: “Predicting the future gets in [...]