The Best Indie Movie of Every Year in the 2000s
Independent Films

The Best Indie Movie of Every Year in the 2000s

Independent films are an essential counterpoint to the big studio system within cinema. Unbound by the need to focus on topical themes, indie cinema has offered up beautiful movies that sit outside the mainstream creative trends. At the same time, they also bring attention to talented up-and-coming filmmakers and actors looking to break out with roles outside of the mainstream Hollywood studio system. Indie films today have come to denote a genre of their own and now have somewhat become a marketing tool rather than the original definition of films made outside of the studio system.

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Indie filmmakers at Sundance contend for buyers
Independent Films

Indie filmmakers at Sundance contend for buyers

The Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, ends this Sunday. It is a marketplace for independent film, with moviemakers trying to find buyers. This year, they’re pitching a movie industry that’s still reeling from two major strikes and is working to find its footing in the wake of the pandemic.

Josh Braun has nine documentaries premiering at Sundance this year. He runs Submarine, a sales, production and distribution company.

He says last year the appetite for docs at the festival was kind of muted, but this year, “the marketplace is starting to get a pulse.”

“You just don’t know

Geralyn Dreyfous talks funding, distribution of independent films
Independent Films

Geralyn Dreyfous talks funding, distribution of independent films

Utah Film Center proudly champions filmmakers through its Fiscal Sponsorship program and the organization’s Co-Founder and Board Chair, Geralyn White Dreyfous, an acclaimed and award-winning documentarian and producer. Its Fiscal Sponsorship program is committed to nurturing creative talent and aims to dismantle financial barriers that often impede the progress of non-commercial film projects. Programs such as this extend the organization’s reach globally and enable the Film Center to support artists and projects not only locally but on an international scale.

Independent film gives access to emerging filmmakers and independent artists by providing space for their underrepresented stories. Utah Film Center’s

Inside Sundance 2024: a global celebration of independent cinema
Independent Films

Inside Sundance 2024: a global celebration of independent cinema

Film fans wait outside the premiere of the new film “Freaky Tales” directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck starring Pedro Pascal, Tom Hanks and Ben Mendelsohn. Film enthusiasts around the world gathered at the 40th anniversary of the Utah based film festival. (Photo by Emma Butler Price)

Thousands of film enthusiasts from around the world gathered at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City to celebrate independent cinema during the

‘Tangerine,’ ‘Past Lives,’ and More – IndieWire
Independent Films

‘Tangerine,’ ‘Past Lives,’ and More – IndieWire

Films are stunning artifacts of humanity’s singular ability to dream and wonder in unison. But if the moviemaking miracles produced by Hollywood’s studio system are predestined — recycled IP inevitabilities that cost as much money as there are stars in the sky — indies are something greater.

Indie filmmaking is notoriously hard to define; combine the constantly shifting number known as “low budget” and another shifty goalpost, “independent,” and we’re partly there. Here’s another definition: It feels as if it’s willed into existence, both in the final story on screen and in the behind-the-scenes journey that explains how an