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WHEN FILMMAKER Kanu Behl’s Agrascreened at the Directors’ Fortnight section at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, it received a five-minute standing ovation. Two years later, it was fighting simply to be seen. It wasn’t that Indian audi­ences had rejected the film. They weren’t given the opportunity to dis­cover it in the first place. When Agrafinally…

As consolidation, shifting release windows and funding pressure reshape the film business, IND/EX 2026 showed independent exhibitors and festivals organizing around community value, operational resilience and a stronger collective voice.

The internet has transformed how indie filmmakers connect, collaborate, and grow their craft. Whether you’re looking for networking, learning reand out:

A local fillmaker has transformed downtown Santa Rosa into a movie set to shine a spotlight on the heightened fears over immigration enforcement. The city warned residents about the shoot and the images they might see. 

(7-24-26) Mercer County native Carter Hellwarth needs your help in producing his next independent film, – The Hay Hurdler.

Today Elliot Grove & Suzanne Ballantyne received their British Citizen Award Medal of Honour for Services to the Arts, their daughter Désirée Ballantyne-Grove collected on behalf of Suzanne Ballantyne.

The 2026 Venice Film Festival has unveiled a programme with a stronger focus on independent and auteur-driven cinema, featuring fewer films from major Hollywood studios than in recent years. Despite that, organisers expect another star-studded edition when the festival runs from 2 to 12 September.

Koo Kyo-hwan debuted on screen in the 2008 short film “Boys,” and has been active in independent films such as “Jane,” (2017) and “Maggie,” (2019). He rose to prominence through director Yeon Sang-ho’s sequel to the blockbuster “Train to Busan” (2016), named “Peninsula,” (2020), in which he portrays the main human antagonist who is even…

Independent Film Company has acquired US rights to The Stunt Driver, writer-director Michael Dowse’s Canadian biodrama that will get its world premiere among the Special Presentations at September’s Toronto International Film Festival. 

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