Browsing: Indie

On the eve of the inaugural TIFF: The Market (September 10-16), the US independent film community is on the fence about the utility of an official event six weeks before the American Film Market (AFM) in Los Angeles.

Microbudget directors keep writing scenes set in rooms they’ve never entered. Here’s how they fake it, and why it still works on screen.

For independent filmmakers, making the movie is only part of the battle. Before production begins, they must decide which screenplay deserves their limited time and money. After the film is finished, they face the equally difficult task of finding an audience. Quilty founder Daniel Wood believes artificial intelligence can help at both ends of that…

Watching “Niu Lai” was an experience like no other. The theater was surprisingly busy for a late Sunday-night screening, with a crowd eager to watch China’s most notorious cartoon calf and his mother. For the first half hour, I was surrounded by laughter, fueled by the characters’ crude 3D modeling, wooden movements and facial expressions,…

Indie Sci-Fi Survival Film ‘After Impact’ Trailer Starring Michiel Rensen | FirstShowing.net

UK independent films released in 2025 accountedfor a 1.3% share of the worldwide box office, down from1.7% in 2024 but up from 0.9% in 2023, according to statistics compiled and published by the British Film Institute (BFI).

A Filipino man walks through the backyard of his childhood home in rural Hawai’i, his footsteps swooshing through the grass. Birds chirp, contributing to the tropical din, as he approaches a shrine at the base of a starfruit tree. He bends to inspect a framed black-and-white photograph of a woman, her hair in a 1950s…

When I chatted with Markiplier in January about his self-financed box office horror hit Iron Lung, my ultimate takeaway was that I hoped we’d hear about more YouTubers using the cash (and caché) they earned from content creation to bring their own passion projects to life.

In February 2025, while on the Oscars trail in support of his film The Brutalist, director Brady Corbet madeheadlines when he revealed on WTF With Marc Maron that he’d “made zero dollars” from his work on the film. While independent movies like The Brutalist aren’t known for being lucrative cash cows for their filmmakers, Corbet’s…

Official Trailer for Indie Film ‘Dear You’ About Chinese Families Abroad | FirstShowing.net