Independent filmmaking Archives

Crashing the boys’ club: independent women directors in the 60s and 70s

Men weren’t the only ones making thoughtful and provocative independent films in the 1960s and ’70s, as this selection demonstrates.

Revisiting the 1978 vampire movie in the wake of its director’s passing.

Ned Rifle marks a welcome return for the marginalized American independent filmmaker.

The first-time filmmaker explains how he dramatized his experience of caring for his mother, who suffers from schizoaffective disorder.

Previewing one of the highlights of this year’s African Diaspora Film Festival, which screens Sunday with the director in attendance

Reeling, Chicago’s LGBT film festival, will resume this November with greater emphasis on community-building.

Talking with the filmmaker and former Reader contributor about his work

An interview with the writer-director of the independent New York comedy Gimme the Loot

Talking to a local screenwriter who’s trying to direct a movie before he goes blind

An interview with the writer-director of the independent comedy The Color Wheel

A singular American independent filmmaker at the Torino film festival