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July 20 Update: Ifp’s 39th Film Week takes place September 17-21 in Brooklyn, New York.

The Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp) has announced more than 110 narrative and documentary features and 35 television, digital, web and app-based series to be presented at the 39th annual Ifp Film Week.

Films include Franka Potente’s directorial debut Home and Clea DuVall’s Layne in the No Borders Intrenattional Co-Production Market. Narrative Lab entries include Cubby by Mark Blane and Ben Mankoff, and Cathy Yan’s Dead Pigs.

Of the narrative selections, 70% of the entries are directed by “diverse creators” and 30% by women. The film selection was curated under the guidance of Ifp deputy director / head of programming Amy Dotson and senior director of programming Milton Tabbot.

The slate for Ifp’s Project Forum includes both scripted and non-fiction series (limited, mini and full season) in all formats and genres.

This year’s serialised content slate includes scripted long-form series likeThe Commons, which...

Ifp’s 39th Film Week takes place September 17-21 in Brooklyn, New York.

The Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp) has announced more than 35 television, digital, web and app-based series to be presented at the 39th annual Ifp Film Week.

The slate for Ifp’s Project Forum includes both scripted and non-fiction series (limited, mini and full season) in all formats and genres.

This year’s serialised content slate includes scripted long-form series likeThe Commons, which Laura E Davis wrote, directed and served as executive producer on, and scripted short-form series such as Caught In The Web, written and directed by Stian Hafstad.

Also featured is a non-fiction long-form category with six films including director Cumari: Rainforest To Table, directed and produced by Patricia FInneran, and non-fiction short-form series like Waking Dream, directed by Theo Rigby and produced by Rebekah Fergusson.

Under the curatorial leadership of Amy Dotson, Ifp’s deputy director and head of programming and Milton Tabbot, [link...

Ifp’s 39th Film Week takes place September 17-21 in Brooklyn, New York.

The Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp) has announced more than 35 television, digital, web and app-based series to be presented at the 39th annual Ifp Film Week.

The slate for Ifp’s Project Forum includes both scripted and non-fiction series (limited, mini and full season) in all formats and genres.

This year’s serialised content slate includes scripted long-form series likeThe Commons, which Laura E Davis wrote, directed and served as executive producer on, and scripted short-form series such as Caught In The Web, written and directed by Stian Hafstad.

Also featured is a non-fiction long-form category with six films including director Cumari: Rainforest To Table, directed and produced by Patricia FInneran, and non-fiction short-form series like Waking Dream, directed by Theo Rigby and produced by Rebekah Fergusson.

Under the curatorial leadership of Amy Dotson, Ifp’s deputy director and head of programming and Milton Tabbot, [link...

We’re back with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s feature includes a clip from Alice D, a call for submissions from the London Horror Festival, trailers for Fractured, Too Young to Die, and Ghostline, first details for Imaginapped and Grimmerson Manor, and a Q&A with Jacqui Holland:

First Clip from Alice D: “In the late 1890s the Davenport House was a famous and successful brothel, until a young prostitute named Alice killed herself there. After her death, the brothel became haunted by Alice’s ghost, and was eventually abandoned.

More than a century later, the old structure is renovated into a beautiful mansion. It is still rumored to inhabit the ghost of Alice. Despite this, the new owner; the rich and arrogant heir to the Davenport fortune, decides to throw a wild party for his first night in the house.

Check out this cool Sci-Fi short film from 25 year-old Norwegian film student, Stian Hafstad. A recent assignment in Stian’s directing class required that they film a scene that was one continuous shot, without any dialogue. He says that he usually doesn’t post his assignments online because they’re either uninteresting, or they’re not self contained pieces, and don’t work outside of class context.

Since his latest assignment, what he calls a “Science Fiction Thriller thingy” entitled, A Way Out was both interesting and self-contained, he put it up on youtube for the world to see. Check it out below!

A Way Out – Science Fiction Short

For all you film students and/or Indie filmmakers that want to know, Stian shot the movie in his dorm room using a Canon T2i with the Canon Ef 28mm f/2.8 lens. He used three 300 watt lights, Blue gels. For the space-time-rift in the cabinet,...

The TromaDance Film Festival has moved to the most toxic place on Earth for its 11th annual edition: New Jersey! That’s right, screw the snow! TromaDance has moved the hell out of Park City and will be making Asbury Park a little bit skeevier on April 16-17 with a grotesque abomination of a lineup of short films and features.

On the 16th, check out the dear ol’ uncle Lloyd Kaufman’s brutally hilarious, bloody and feces-tastically toe-tapping Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead, a musical set in a fast food restaurant haunted by demonic spirits.

Then, on the 17th, its a gargantuan all-day affair of riotous and offensive short films from all over the world, plus a screening of Tom Six’s bizarro feature-length horror film The Human Centipede in which a mad doctor sews innocent victims together mouth-to-butt. Hey, whatever turns you on.

Plus, there’s panel discussions,...