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Storming the Gates. BlogNosh 07/01/08

July 1, 2008 – 5:45 pm

“If this is confusing, let’s make the comparison to the airlines — the cost of travel is up and the cost of providing travel is way up. So the business is down. Only the best routes work. And only the best films work. Economics explains it all.” In a post on the IndiePix blog, Bob [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Community, Indies | Comments (0)

Carnivalesque To Distribute DVDs

June 11, 2008 – 2:42 pm

Exciting news from David Redmon and Ashley Sabin, co-directors of a couple of our favorite recent docs, Kamp Katrina and Intimidad: they’re expanding the purview of their production company, Carnivalesque Films, in order to start distributing DVDs. Their first release will be their own film, the 2005 Sundance premiere Mardi Gras: Made in China, and [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in DVDs, Indies | Comments (0)

Hollywood Babylon & Bespoke Nerdery. BlogNosh 06/10/08

June 10, 2008 – 6:08 pm

Chris Holland of B-Side weighs in on that whole Jonathan Marlowe-sparked State of Distribution to-do. There are a lot of fine takeaways here, but here’s an especially good one: “Gear up the marketing machine and pack those [festival] screenings, because the more people who see your film now, the more people who will buy it [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Community, Indies | Comments (0)

Miranda July on YouTube

June 10, 2008 – 10:45 am

Do you remember 2005, when Miranda July was blogging and making those bittersweet video diaries from the road whilst promoting Me and You and Everyone We Know? Remember how she filmed her walk up the red carpet at the Cannes, and it seemed so quirky and novel and maybe even a teeny tiny bit punk [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Culture/art, Video | Comments (1)

THINKFilm is Doing What Now?

May 14, 2008 – 2:40 pm

The distributor goes to Cannes to sell, not buy, as whispers at home mount that filmmakers aren’t getting paid.

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Documentary, Film festivals, Film marketing and distribution, Indies, cannes 2008 | Comments (0)

Indie Implosion, Several Kinds of Awful: BlogNosh 05/12/08

May 12, 2008 – 6:00 pm

“Over the last 10 weeks, the independent film “industry” has been restructured before our eyes,” writes Bob Alexander at the Indiepix blog. “Is the world of indie film burning up? Or is a new era about to emerge?”
Defamer points to seven clips from the Sex and the City movie, posted over at BlackFilm.com. I [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Community, Humor | Comments (0)

Down and Dirty Pictures Script

April 2, 2008 – 8:10 am

Karina will be AWOL for most of Wednesday and at least part of Thursday. While I’m gone, you need to go to Hollywood Elsewhere, because Jeff Wells has obtained the script for the movie adaptation of Peter Biskind’s 90s indie film expose, Down and Dirty Pictures. I mean, I think he has––technically, he posted scans [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Hollywood, Indies | Comments (0)

It’s Not Your Fault.

March 21, 2008 – 11:00 am

When it comes to supporting indie film, audiences are at the mercy of distributors, publicists, and the media. Let’s not blame the victim when the gatekeepers aren’t doing their jobs.

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Documentary, Indies | Comments (3)

The Indie Target Shoots Back: BlogNosh 03/20/08

March 20, 2008 – 6:15 pm

Also: A specious X=Y statement makes Gene Kelly roll in his…urn?

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Classics, Community, Indies | Comments (0)

State of the Indies, Part 2

December 20, 2007 – 1:33 pm

Art house producers and distributors don’t know why you’re not showing up for their films, but they know you have an iPod. That’s progress, right?

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Film marketing and distribution, Indies, Technology & Web | Comments (4)