Sentences with phrase «indie film movement»

They represent the culmination of a cultural change that began as the 1980s indie film movement shifted control of American film production away from the major studios to the entrepreneurship of individual (not necessarily «independent») outsiders.

GAS FOOD LODGING (1992): One of the early and most memorable movies in the American indie film movement.

Supposedly the voice of its generation, the indie film movement known as Mumblecore has had its 15 minutes.

Not exact matches

Arts journalist and broadcaster Richard Watts guest hosts this episode of Hyphenates, talking about the films of December 2014, comparing notes on the best films of the year, and looking at the films and career of indie filmmaker and key figure in the New Queer Cinema movement, Gregg Araki.

He had directed one of the quintessential works of the late - 20th century indie movement in Sex, Lies, and Videotape, a film that would have been a deserving Best Picture winner in Traffic, and one of the most entertaining and rewatchable movies ever made in Ocean's Eleven.

While two of his films have played in Park City previously (though one was a short segment in «V / H / S»), Swanberg and his zeitgeist - defining mumblecore movement (read: indie filmmaking with a cute name and perhaps even lower budgets than audiences were used to at the time), were actually embraced by the SXSW Film Festival and not the indie - defining organizers in Utah.

The majority of Joe Swanberg's directorial career has been making micro-budget indie films such as Kissing on the Mouth, LOL, and Hannah Takes the Stairs, which many consider to be early pioneers of the mumblecore (yes, I said it) movement.

Coming up through the «mumblecore» film movement as a director and screenwriter, Andrew Bujalski made the leap to the higher - budgeted indie scene with Results.

«Possibly the most honest marijuana film out there, CALIFORNIA, 90420 gets right up in the business: medical patients, big - scale grows, Oaksterdam U, and the legalize movement...» SF INDIE FEST.

One company, IndieReader, launched in 2009 with a very specific goal: the fan the flames of an indie book movement that had the same credibility and following of the indie music and film scenes.

IR's mission was to showcase and highlight great indie books and authors, and in the process, to create an indie movement similar to what was happening in music and film.