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Would 10 really fine independent films come from their labors?

Every once in a while an independent film comes along and rocks the film world to its core.

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We started this about six years ago and it allows me to have a platform for independent films, films that we're passionate about, and find a bigger audience for great, cool emerging talent and up - and - coming movies,» League continues.

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Also coming up is the his appearance in the independent dramatic thriller film «Emanuel and the Truth about Fishes,.»

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Plenty of Lego spoofs get thrown around, and the film's message of creativity and independent thought — though omnipresent — never comes off as preachy or overbearing.

Fernandez felt grateful for the opportunity, but reportedly hated the job itself so much that he hearkened off for the greener pastures of acting.Fernandez landed his first formal acting assignments as a guest star on episodes of the network series Cold Case and Jericho in 2006 and 2007, but truly came into his own as a star of low - medium budgeted independent films such as director Marc - Andre Samson's taut thriller Interstate (2006)(as a young man trying desperately to reach his girlfriend in Los Angeles, but waylaid by drugs and the trappings of an odd motel), and directors Lucky McKee and Trygve Diesen's violent psychological thriller Red (as a disturbed young man who plays the role of accomplice in killing a senior citizen's dog).

Part of this comes from the excellent characterizations provided throughout the film, with many archetypical elements of Hispanic women getting together for a tug - of - war between old - fashioned values and the new independent spirit.

Demonstrates that when independent filmmaking meets the generation that is constantly filming, both good and bad things can come from it.

The Independent's Anthony Quinn comes closer to my take on the film; he's a little more reserved in his admiration, but it's deep admiration nonetheless:

«I love playing this character,» Johansson told Entertainment Tonight on the set of Avengers: Infinity War, before reports that a Black Widow film is in development, «and I think there is definitely an opportunity to explore the Widow as a woman who has come into her own and is making independent and active choices for herself, probably for once in her life.

After all, much of the impetus for the cycle came from a renewed interest in independent film by major distributors.

It's a film that has been a long time in coming, with many independent drafts being written up and subsequently discarded over the years, while several big name directors (Tim Burton, Brett Ratner, McG) have come and gone.

Stewart's fame these days comes primarily from two areas: her relationships, which draw the interest of tens of millions of people, and her studiously independent film work, which garners the ticket sales of, well, somewhat fewer.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

The fact that it is a female - driven independent comedy that stars several talented and underrated actresses leads me to believe that this may be one of the most popular and best - reviewed films to come out of SXSW this year.

John Cooper, Director of the Sundance Film Festival, said, «The films at our Festival this year truly reflect the unbridled passion, immense talent and diverse stories coming from the independent filmmaking community.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS 4:44 Last Day on Earth (Unrated) Apocalyptic sci - fi adventure about a Manhattan couple (Willem Dafoe and Shanyn Leigh) coming to terms with the fact that world is ending in 24 hours.

I was coming off a project at the time, and I really wanted to do an independent film that was more of an intimate, character - driven piece.

Now the race is wide open, and is expected to go at a dizzying pace, with announcements to come from the Golden Globes, the Directors Guild, the Producers Guild, SAG - AFTRA, the Independent Spirit Awards and many film critics» associations from across the nation, leading up to the actual announcement of the Academy Award nominations.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS The Amateurs (R for sex and expletives) Bawdy comedy about a bunch of local yokels in a small town in Middle America who come up with the bright idea of making a porno movie.

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After a small independent film, THE OPEN ROAD with Jeff Bridges (THE BIG LEBOWSKI), Timberlake's best performance to date came in David Fincher's THE SOCIAL NETWORK as Napster creator Sean Parker.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS 0s & 1s (Unrated) Digital Age comedy about a yuppie (Morgan Krantz) who's so dependent on his computer that his life starts to come apart at the seams when he discovers after a night of partying that someone has stolen his laptop.

As far as we've come, films featuring meaningful LGBT + characters are still the preserve of independent productions.

This film really comes down to what I really love, a small independent film.

Amy Seimetz («Upstream Color») Over the last few years, Amy Seimetz hasn't come anywhere near threatening to crack the mainstream, but has served as a sort of «Zelig «- figure for a particular kind of American independent film, crossing paths with many of the most notable players in the scene in some way or another.

An emotionally stirring journey through the coming - of - age of a young black man in Miami, Moonlight has established Jenkins as one of the most vital storytellers on the independent film scene.

She's one of the most remarkable talents to come our way in the independent film world in a long time.»

Coming off a decade where the American genre film devolved into lowest - common - denominator investments and blockbusters ballooned skyward on the backs of sequels and franchises, Refn's modest exercise in crime pastiche and car - chase nostalgia parlayed both the exhaustion of Hollywood's narrative resources and — perhaps more importantly — the gathering mainstream curiosity in independent music's preoccupation with the sound and feel of the 1980s (the film's soundtrack has become one of the most popular word - of - mouth successes of the decade).

This film needs an independent in the true sense, where political pressures will not come into play.»

The difficult little brother of the independent cinema world is coming off a mostly unsuccessful attempt to return to former glories with 2009's «Happiness» semi-sequel «Life in Wartime,» and had promised lighter fare for his latest, «Dark Horse,» claiming that for the first time in his career that he wanted to make a film without pedophilia, or masturbation, or any of the taboo - breaking subjects that he made his name with.

It's a smarter, less - angry version of Transamerica while featuring the same number of depressed gay people and Harold & Maude-esque teenage boys; it's got the Wes Anderson stamp of approval for its coterie of sage oddballs, deadpan surrogates, and family decompositions; it has a stellar cast doing extremely predictable work at a stellar level; and it comes with the Sundance stamp of approval predestined for it because Little Miss Sunshine is a summary of every independent film since «dysfunction» became a hot - key button on critics» keyboards.

Justin Kurzel's Snowtown was a remarkable film, a brash feature debut that signaled the emergence of a unique talent joining a slew of them coming out of the Australian independent scene.

Over a year later, one finally came in the form Bathsheba Everdene, the fiercely independent heroine at the center of a new film adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic novel «Far From the Madding Crowd.»

«So not only is it hard to make your film,» she explained, «and to make your film relevant, to tell the independent story that you want to tell, but at the far end, the gatekeepers are predominantly men, or women who have had to come through a male system.»

She made her screen debut in the slasher film Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (2005), went on to have a supporting role in the independent coming - of - age drama Tanner Hall (2009), and has since starred in the horror remake A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010), the biographical drama The Social Network (2010), the thriller remake The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), and the romantic drama Carol (2015).

In the days and weeks to come, Hollywood studios and independent distributors will be releasing all sorts of films that are crammed with producer credits.

As the year comes to a close and moviegoers start thinking of awards, there is no clear favorite for the Best Picture Oscar, but a general acknowledgement that 2013 has seen several first - rate films, from major studio releases (Gravity) to small independent movies (Nebraska).

Redford also used the conference as an opportunity to «straighten something out» about how he believes he's come to be viewed by many industry members for so closely aligning himself with the independent film movement.

this film is by far the best independent film i have watched, the only other independent film that i have watched that comes to mind is Dance Flick that was directed by the Waynes brothers it aslo had Shoshanna Bush in it.

«And bringing [Anthony] Mackie on to do Falcon, having come off a really solid independent film career,» she continued.

There were hundreds of films at the festival, thousands of people, approximately 2,000 volunteers, press and industry, and just a plethora of film enthusiasts who come every year to watch and celebrate independent film.

A tightly wound, character - rooted crime drama in the vein of A Simple Plan, director Tze Chun's Cold Comes the Night is one of those crisp, engaging independent films that rather bewilderingly and frustratingly slip through the theatrical cracks every now and again, and at the heart of it all is Eve's mesmerizingly rundown performance, a thing of damaged grace.

He pioneered a staccato style that would become highly imitated, but playwright, screenwriter and director David Mamet is still one of the more distinctive voices in American independent film — one that will be celebrated at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica in the coming weeks.

The director Sean Baker, who wrote the film with Chris Bergoch, and whose independent films center on atypical protagonists (like Ghanaian immigrants or Los Angeles porn stars), said the idea for «Tangerine» came from the Hollywood location.

Tom Jolliffe looks at Ryan Coogler's career as a writer / director and the possibilities (and importance) of what comes next... When you breakout in a big way as an independent film - maker, in a small film that manages to hook in a fairly large audience, the expectation for what comes next, begins.

On Monday night the Ozark - set indie darling won top honors at the Gotham Independent Film Awards, and Tuesday morning word came that the film garnered a pack - leading seven Film Independent Spirit Award nominations.