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Young love, it’s one of the sweetest kinds of stories to witness take shape and unfold. Naive characters form a connection ...

As the 2027 Project Involve cycle is open for applications, we are looking back at S. Lakmé Iyengar and her experience in Project Involve. Lakmé worked on the live action film Saving All My Love and ...

I had been fully prepared for a seven-year journey.” Writer/Director David Forturne was ready for the long haul when making ...

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As Writer/Director Jing Ai Ng points out, art forgery isn’t the easiest way to make a buck. It takes deep study, craftspersonship, and the chutzpa to pull it off. But it attracted Ng as a subject for ...

It’s summer! Time for coming-of-age romance in all forms, whether it’s horror in a small town in Australia, queer and questioning crushes in a small town in Oregon, family pressures in a Paris suburb, ...

Pardon us for stating the obvious, but it’s a great time to be a horror fan. In the month of May alone, this year’s box office gave us a new, original horror film every week. Interestingly, two of ...

Spring isn’t just for Award Season recovery. Film Independent Presents has stayed busy with a calendar chocked-full of exciting indie releases. We’re featuring a few you might have missed here, ...

LOS ANGELES (January 10, 2026) – Film Independent, the nonprofit arts organization dedicated to fostering independence and inclusivity in visual storytelling, announced the winners of its three ...

It’s an exciting month at the movies with three bold, Black fantasies packed with swagger and two Argentinian films made by female filmmakers. Whether your taste tends toward low-key suspense, creepy ...

Out in the field, a documentarian can point their camera anywhere, but in the darkness of the editing room, the real choices are made that turn that footage into an emotional, coherent and compelling ...