Filmmaker Jessica Yu examines the looming global water crisis and what can be done to avoid it in this documentary. While water is arguably the world’s most important natural resource, shockingly little is being done to protect the global water supply, and a number of leading scientists have produced evidence suggesting the amount...
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Last Call at the Oasis — $8.9K
13 Projects Accepted for Sundance’s June Director and Screenwriter Labs
The Sundance Institute today announced 13 international film projects selected for this June's Directors and Screenwriters Labs, which will take place at the Sundance Resort under the leadership of Michelle Satter and Gyula Gazdag. This year's massive roster of talented creative advisors includes Ramin Bahrani, Andrea Arnold, Walter Bernstein, Ed Harris, John Cameron Mitchell...
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Veteran US Actor Gives Back to the Community
James Reynolds is familiar to many daytime television viewers in the United States. For more than 30 years, he has played on the popular daytime drama “Days of Our Lives” in the longest-running role for an African American actor on U.S. television. Reynolds believes in giving back to his California community. On Tuesday...
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The Beat Hotel — $1.5K
Pay a visit to the French hotel that nurtured the creativity of the Beat generation's most prolific writers in this documentary from filmmaker Alan Govenar. As Alan Ginsberg's landmark poem Howl was being put on trial for obscenity in the United States, American writers who valued creative expression began fleeing oversees. Those writers, including...
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Hey, NYC! Win Tickets to IFC’s Nanni Moretti Retrospective
It's been quite a year for Italian master Nanni Moretti. His most recent film, "We Have A Pope," weathered considerable Vatican controversy last year and ended up atop Cahiers du Cinema's 2011 list, and this spring he will head the Cannes jury. The director behind "The Son's Room," which won the Palme D'Or in...
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Watch ‘Casino Jack,’ ‘Bukowski’ and Other Top Docs, For Free
Don't you need a intelligent respite from yesterday's debauchery? We thought so. A bunch of top-flight docs -- including "Casino Jack and the United States of Money," "Super Size Me," "Bukowski: Born Into This," "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" and "Jesus Camp" -- are currently available for free viewing at SnagFilms.com (Indiewire's...
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Meet the SXSW Filmmakers #26: Mark Kendall, ‘La Camioneta’
After riding a colorful camioneta across Guatemala in 2009, Mark Kendall was inspired to explore the origins of the retrofitted school bus. "I found myself thinking about the old school bus I used to ride to basketball games in high school," says Kendall. "Where was it now? Is it driving around somewhere in Guatemala?...
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This Is What It’s Like To Be a First-Time Oscar Nominee
Industry heavyweights like Martin Scorsese and George Clooney know the Oscar game too well, but 27-year-old Norwegian filmmaker Hallvar Witzo has discovered a whole new world. An Academy Award nominee for best live-action short for "Tuba
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Like Crazy — $0.1M
Drake Doremus' romantic drama Like Crazy stars Felicity Jones as Anna, a British girl who comes to America to attend college. In Los Angeles she falls madly in love with fellow student Jacob (Anton Yelchin), who returns her affection absolutely. However, when she overstays her visa, the government kicks her out of the United...
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