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Dear Collaborators,
We hope this emissive finds you well…just a handful of updates this month. Please note that the documentary deadline for IFP Independent Filmmaker Lab submission, which is open to all first-time feature directors with films in post-production, is THIS Friday.
…and speaking of docs, TFC would like to congratulate our member THE INVISIBLE WAR on its win for best documentary at the Independent Sprirt awards.
— The Film Collaborative
New Blog Posts
Read our latest Blog Post by co-executive director Jeffrey Winter here: Everything old is new again: Brief thoughs on the Berlinale. Also check out recent posts on Pozible as well as Narrative Films at Sundance.
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IFP Independent Filmmaker Labs Open for Submissions
Deadlines to Apply: March 8 (Documentary) / April 5 (Narrative)
IFP’s Independent Filmmaker Labs are a year-long fellowship supporting independent filmmakers when they need it most: through the completion, marketing, and distribution of their first features. Lab submission is open to all first-time documentary and narrative feature directors with films in post-production.
Structured in three week-long components held over the year, the Labs offer personalized attention on post-production, audience building, and distribution strategies in the digital age, followed by continued support from IFP as the project premieres in the marketplace.
Recent Lab Project alumni include Concussion (Radius/TWC), Pariah (Focus Features), Una Noche (Sundance Selects), and documentaries Give Up Tomorrow, The Light In Her Eyes (both PBS’ “P.O.V.”) and War Don Don (HBO)—with many more Lab alumni set for upcoming festivals and broadcast.
To apply, or for more information, please visit http://www.ifp.org/programs/labs
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TFC Member Ben Shapiro’s new documentary, Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters, is opening in Los Angeles at Laemmle Music Hall 3 this Friday, March 8. For more information, visit the film’s website or watch the trailer.
About the film
An acclaimed photographer with the eye of a filmmaker, Gregory Crewdson has created some of the most gorgeously haunting pictures in the history of the medium. His meticulously composed, large-scale images are stunning narratives of small-town American life—moviescapes crystallized into a single frame. While the photographs are staged with crews that rival many feature film productions, Crewdson takes inspiration as much from his own dreams and fantasies as the worlds of Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, Edward Hopper and Diane Arbus. Crewdson’s imagery has also infiltrated the pop culture landscape—including his inimitable Six Feet Under ads and Yo La Tengo album art. Shot over a decade with unprecedented access, GREGORY
CREWDSON: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS beautifully bares the artist’s process—and it’s as mesmerizing and riveting as the images themselves.
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News You May Have Missed
- Given that many filmmakers are still dismissive of crowdfunding as a viable source of film funding, we thought this NYT article might give some insight into why people donate (rather than invest).
- For those handling their own publicity efforts, Scott Beggs, Managing Editor of Film School Rejects website, gives some great tips on how to (or not to) get a journalist's attention.
- At Sundance this year, Topspin's VP of Product and Marketing Bob Moczydlowsky presented a fantastic case study (complete with NUMBERS!) of how Sundance documentary Bones Brigade made a monumentally more profitable decision by selling direct-to-fan in addition to selling other domestic and international rights piecemeal, over what they were offered to buy up domestic and international rights separately. This only works, of course, if you already have or know of a fan base you can plug into.
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