Hollywood filmmaking is usually a practice in the art of patience and waiting. Waiting to pitch your idea, waiting on a rewrite, waiting for financing (usually the longest wait, by far), then waiting for the your talent to become available. Then, maybe if you're lucky, you can start shooting.

After you tell someone what you do for a living, the common follow-up refrain in Hollywood is, of course, "but I really want to direct." Doesn't matter where you are on the food chain, agent, production assistant, or busboy, the tag tends to punctuate the end of any sentence about...

The recent passage of the JOBS act may be the shot in the arm the indie film business needs to reignite the lackluster funding in recent years. What's exciting is that it's opening up the crowdfunding market past your typical cadre of friends and family who are making a donation...

If you weren't able to hit the screenings and the slopes in Park City, then there's another way you can get involved in independent film closer to home, if that home happens to be Los Angeles.

Film Independent, the collective of filmmakers and film lovers, has been supporting the...