Happy New Year! Kicking off 2026 with a visual tour of the world, this month’s Don’t-Miss list includes films set in the US ...

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Science is full of emotion, curiosity, surprise, frustration, triumph and discovery. From breakthroughs in the lab to ambitious explorations beyond Earth and emerging technologies reshaping how we ...

Fiscal sponsorship is an arrangement between an existing 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and an individual or entity lacking the legal status needed to receive grants from foundations, individual ...

Why We’re Excited: In Kate Beecroft’s first feature, newcomers Tabatha and Porshia Zimiga star in a fictionalized version of their own lives, lending a sense of realism to the South Dakota ranch film.

If there’s one thing every documentary director knows all too well, it’s the “big board”. It’s fretted over, it’s tinkered with, it’s argued about. All that fuss over a cork board with story-beat ...

Ahhh.. seems just like yesterday that Film Independent President Josh Welsh was on stage at the 2023 Film Independent Spirit Awards (looking sharp AF in a peach tie and crisp pocket hexagonal, btw) ...

We’re officially a month into summer, when the blazing sun is still bearable and the usual suspects—camping, swimming, traveling—start to pick up speed. Another activity, purposely left out to have ...

Created by showrunner Dan Erickson, Apple TV+’s dystopian workplace psychological thriller was nominated for three Spirit Awards in its first season, including Best New Scripted Series. One of its ...

With all the great films the Film Independent’s Fiscal Sponsorship program supports, we can’t help to brag about all the awesome work in the program from time to time. That’s exactly what we do in our ...

It’s no surprise that filmmaker David Lynch’s fanbase has, for four decades, continually renewed itself among each new generation of cineastes. Something about the strange alchemy of the ...

Note: at Cannes this year we met select members of The Film Agency, an international film marketing consultancy firm that has worked on numerous hit film releases. We asked the agency, headquartered ...