Film Financing Conference: a full-day event designed to discuss different aspects of independent film production, financing, and distribution. Keynote Speaker: James D. Stern (CEO Endgame Entertainment) Panelists: Stephanie Allain (Producer, Black Snake Moan), Rick Allen (Snagfilms), Laura Bickford (Laura Bickford Productions), Peter Broderick (Paradigm Consulting), Patrick Creadon (Director, I.O.U.S.A.), Michael Donaldson (Donaldson & Callif), Jennifer Dubin (Producer, Good Dick), Da...

Between the wrestling tights and the hockey masks, you could have mistaken Auraria Campus for a sports arena yesterday. Until, that is, you entered the theater to get an eyeful of The Wrestler - starring a startlingly, stirringly beaten-but-not-bowed Mickey Rourke - or the rootin' tootin' serial-killer parade that is His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th. Then you could see for yourself SDFF 31 was already in full swing - especially if you caught glimpses of some of the Festival's most...

LA Film Festival Draws Animators and Fans to MONSTER ROAD Animators, and other recluses, braved a daylight screening of the documentary MONSTER ROAD at the Los Angeles Film Festival on Tuesday 24th to enjoy a rare public appearance of cult animator Bruce Bickford. The new film is an affectionate and revealing biography that updates the public on the continuing work of an artist who transforms his fevered dreams into film art.Director Brett Ingram is a fellow animator whose lens volleys between ...

This year's festival features 30 stunning short films and one magnificent feature film that all prove you don’t need big bucks to make a sweet movie. Working in formats from digital video to 35mm, the hilo filmmakers create funny shorts, animated experimentals, hard-hitting documentaries and wondrous movies that defy description. The subjects covered in the films range from competitive table-setting to Shaquille O’Neal’s Irish ancestry with films about ninjas, crossing the street and losin...