“Turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon cannot hear the falconer,” wrote Yeats. As we begin a new decade, independent films simultaneously fly aloft, one wing high above the tectonic shifts of the Media Industrial Complex, another wing tethered to the Practical Order of streamers and theatres, pre-buys and vanishing back-ends. Sundance and …
Welcome to our annual Slamdance Film Festival infographic, in which we visualize data that provides insight into the current landscape of the independent film industry. Be sure to read Adam Leipzig’s related article, Independent Films 2020: The Widening Gyre Share this Image On Your Site — Copy and Paste the Code Below<p><strong>Please include attribution …
This year it is harder than ever to calibrate the state of independent film. But Adam Leipzig does it anyway.
Slamdance brings its 4th annual DIG (Digital, Interactive & Gaming) showcase to Los Angeles September 13-15, 2018, featuring new and unseen works by emerging visual artists and indie game developers from around the world. DIG is dedicated to spotlighting new, independent artists working in hybrid, immersive, and emerging forms of digital media art. Now in …
“By Filmmakers, For Filmmakers” has been Slamdance’s brand concept since its inception in 1995, and it’s a mantra that continues this year, as Slamdance celebrates its 2018 edition January 19-25. Slamdance offers a counterweight to the Park City madness of Sundance, although Slamdance has its own madness, the creative anarchy of being filmmaker-governed and focused …
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Park City has a change in the weather this year. For the first time in along time there will be snow, and, as if to counter deniers, Sundance has programmed a special section on climate change films. The festival will also be marked by social actions directed toward President Trump’s inauguration. As always, though, the …
For the myriad filmmakers descending on Park City this week we have good news and bad.
Inside Track for Independent Filmmakers, my new book that gives step-by-step instructions for filmmakers to get their movies made and seen, shares important tips on the newest distribution frontier. Call it Free Range Distribution, which captures the energy and Wild West experience you’ll find here. (It’s a term I learned from my friends at Seed …
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“There was a barbed wire shot, but we didn’t get the armed guard.”
Compelling, enraging, inspiring.
CES is all about gadgets and gizmos that we use to make and watch movies, TV and webisodes. Could CES and Sundance be two sides of the same coin?
Adam Leipzig and Sophia Stein cover the Sundance and Slamdance film festivals in their own eclectic ways.
The Sundance and Slamdance film festivals gazed forward and back, and the luminous future was far grander than coruscations of the past.
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