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Oct 2, 2024 · February 22 2025. February 22. 2025. The one and only Aidy Bryant will join an illustrous list of multi-time hosts when she hits the stage at the 40th annual Spirit Awards. We are currently accepting submissions for the 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards – all the details are available right here. With the 2025 show on the horizon, let's ...
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The Fi Hall of Fame: A Brief History of Film Music
Jul 5, 2024 · Max Steiner. Regarded as “The Father of Film Music” Steiner makes extensive use of leitmotif in his 1933 score for King Kong. Created by German operatic composer Richard Wagner, leitmotif is a technique wherein specific instruments or musical themes are assigned to individual characters or events. In subsequent decades, the use of the ...
Grants & Awards - Film Independent
Film Independent awards over $845,000 in cash and production services to filmmakers each year. Film Independent Grants & Awards allow filmmakers to advance their current projects and help recognize professional accomplishments in independent film. With questions and for more information about Film Independent Grants & Awards, please email us at ...
How 1978’s ‘Halloween’ Invented the Modern Slasher Movie
Oct 16, 2023 · It’s that time of year, when horror fans unite for a month of celebratory screenings of their favorite horror movies. And what more aptly named film to celebrate this month than the 1978 John Carpenter-directed, Debra Hill-produced classic Halloween, which many credit with inventing the whole slasher-film subgenre.. As you undoubtedly know, the film follows the rampage of iconic masked ...
Directors Close-Up: How Writers Work with Directors (and How …
Feb 12, 2019 · Who better to invite for Week Two of Film Independent’s 2019 Directors Close-Up series than a trio of knowledgeable, accomplished writer-directors: Jane Anderson (The Wife, Olive Kitteridge), Billy Ray (Shattered Glass, Captain Phillips) and moderator Robin Swicord (Wakefield, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.)This fascinating triptych of talented, erudite scribes stepped in to school ...
CASE STUDY: The Making of ‘Chasing Coral’ - Film Independent
Apr 8, 2020 · In this nonfiction feature, a team of divers, photographers and scientists set out on a thrilling ocean adventure to discover why and to reveal the underwater mystery to the world. Shooting Format: RED Dragon, RED Epic, Sony FS7, Panasonic GH4, GoPro, Canon EOS-1D C, etc. Awards: Sundance Film Festival 2017: Winner—Audience Award, US ...
Picture Shop Feature Film Grant
The Picture Shop Feature Film Grant is open to all filmmakers who meet the criteria listed in our eligibility section below. Film Independent will select a qualified filmmaker who will receive up to $50,000 in color correction and digital intermediate services for their fiction or …
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ICYMI: The Do’s and Don’ts of Submitting to Sundance
Jan 18, 2022 · The 2022 Sundance Film Festival kicks off online this week, Thursday, January 20. The following piece originally ran in 2016 and updated again in 2021. For more information on Sundance submissions, dates, etc. go to sundance.org.. The “overnight success story out of Sundance” is one of the most alluring career narratives in all of independent cinema.