Here’s the latest from END:CIV. Both clips include footage and interviews we shot during our west coast tour. Interviews include Ward Churchill, John Zerzan, Lierre Keith and Dr. Michael Becker. The first piece breaks down the first premise of Derrick Jensen’s “Endgame”. “Civilization is not and can never be sustainable. This is especially true for industrial civilization.” The second clip is an updated edit of “Clearcuts” first released on the world wide web in June 2009.

Let me start off by saying, you literally must read this book from cover to cover. Every little bit is fascinating. It covers Rob’s success from a literal zero to hero in the span of a few years. This book isn’t so much a book as it is a film makers diary. The introduction gives you a brief history of how he fell in love with film as a child and cast his siblings in everyone of his early films. Rebel Without a Crew also tells of his experiences at Pharmeco, a pharmaceuticals testing facility. He literally sold his body for science experiments to fund his first feature length film! if that isn’t dedication, then what is?

A very helpful video to any aspiring indie film maker. Some of the technology he speaks about has not only become more readily available to the public, but much easier to do at home as well. The era of the New Indie Film Maker has arrived! Listen to what he says very carefully, not only is it motivating and inspiring, he speaks from the heart and expresses truth. You can’t be a film maker without well, making films. To put it simply, he encourages everyone to get out there and …

About a decade ago, Marc Fienberg uprooted his family from Boston and bought one-way tickets to Los Angeles to pursue his dream of making a movie about his grandfather. He developed his own film company, Story Films, specializing in short films and commercials. Then incredibly, Fienberg, a man with no feature film background or connections, was able to raise millions of dollars and convince Hollywood icon Andy Griffith to star in his film, “Play the Game.” The independent film, which Fienberg is self-distributing throughout the nation this fall, will start a limited one-week …

Welcome to part two of How Hollywood Killed Good Cinema. In the previous article, we touched on how Hollywood is milking sequels and remakes to protect the lifestyles of the rich and famous. Now we are going to delve into what Hollywood is doing right. It seems the big Hollywood high-ups have started to realize that nobody wants to see six installments of the Fantastic Four. What people want is award winning original content. Where does that content come from? Independents. Paranormal Activity has become something of a phenomenon in the movie …

For the last few years there has been a question burning in movie goers heads, Where have all the good movies gone? Remember the 90’s when good movies came out every month? Shawshank Redemption, Toy Story, The Lion King, Jurassic Park, Titanic, and The Nightmare Before Christmas, to name a few. No matter what way you look at it Hollywood has changed in the last ten years. All the movies named above were ORIGINAL stories that were told very well. Three of which had sequels made out of them. To …

Skream adds his signature dubstep sound to Chromeo’s first new single since 2007. Green Label Sound is offering up a free download of both the original and remix. From Dave 1 of Chromeo: “I was confused when I first heard this: all of a sudden, our song sounded like a Bone Thugs record. That’s because I couldn’t hear Skream’s satanic sub-bass on my computer speakers. Then I switched systems and it made perfect sense. Play this loud and you’ll hear all the hypnotic qualities you’d expect from the grand wizard of UK dubstep.” …

The Yes Men Fix the World is a screwball true story about two gonzo political activists who, posing as top executives of giant corporations, lie their way into big business conferences and pull off the world’s most outrageous pranks. From New Orleans to India to New York City, armed with little more than cheap thrift-store suits, the Yes Men squeeze raucous comedy out of all the ways that corporate greed is destroying the planet. Brüno meets Michael Moore in this gut-busting wake-up call that proves a little imagination can go a long way towards vanquishing the Cult of Greed …