Less than a week away from the gongshow that will be the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games. Chris ‘Okibi’ will be in the midst of the protests, hopefully bringing back some valuable footage and insights. For more information on Olympic resistance checkout the No 2010 website.

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 …

Paranormal Activity is a small indie horror film that was made on an $11,000.00 budget. Blair Witch ring a bell? They are trying a new viral marketing strategy to increase hype for the film, and it seems to be working. On September 25th it was released in a few select cities. Paramount started an eventful page where you can demand the film to come to your city. The film is beginning to build up steam very quickly. This weekend, Paranormal Activity expanded to 33 cities. The campaign worked and the Thursday …