IndiePix's February Retail Releases

February 3, 2009 - IndiePix is proud to announce its February releases to Retail. Go to Netflix.com or Amazon.com or any video retail outlet to rent or buy these films. Better yet, buy them at IndiePixFilms.com. Support independent film and help independent filmmakers. Our filmmaker's get more than half the revenues. Rent often and buy alot!

IndiePix's January Retail Releases

December 23, 2008 - IndiePix is proud to announce its January releases to Retail. Go to Netflix.com or Amazon.com or any video retail outlet to rent or buy these films. Better yet, buy them at IndiePixFilms.com. Support independent film and help independent filmmakers. Our filmmaker's get more than half the revenues. Rent often and buy alot!

Toots Free Movie Ticket

November 11, 2008 - TOOTS Opens in LA! Free Theater Ticket for IndiePix Customers! TOOTS, the heartwarming retrospective on Toots Shor and his famous restaurant and even more prominent clientele, has been welcomed by audiences at the Paley Center in Manhattan at the Roxie in San Francicso ... and now TOOTS is opening at the newly renovated, beautiful Downtown Independent theater in Los Angeles. And you can get a free ticket with your purchase of the DVD of TOOTS, available on our site now. Friday, November 21 through Friday, November 28 at the Downtown Independent Theater, 251 South Main Street, LA 90012. Order now and use the coupon code "TICKET" in the shopping cart, and we'll send you the ticket with your order. You can use this ticket coupon to attend any one of the screenings during it's one week run. Take a friend to the movies and give the DVD as a gift -- and make three people happy (yourself included) for the price of one DVD!

HELL ON WHEELS Screens at the Alamo Drafthouse

September 22, 2008 - On Thursday, October 2nd, IndiePixer Jason Tyrrell will join filmmakers Bob Ray and Werner Campbell to celebrate the DVD release of HELL ON WHEELS with a screening at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar in Austin, Texas. Festivities get under way with the screening at 7pm, and will continue with an afterparty, which in true Austin fashion will last 'til the wee hours of the morning. HELL ON WHEELS, which chronicles the rebirth of all-girl rollerderby, was shot in Austin over a four year period, and captures all the drama of derby on and off the track through a stunning mix of interviews, verite footage, and a face-melting soundtrack featuring ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of the Dead, Explosions in the Sky, Mogwai, Grupo Fantasma, RPG, Nashville Pussy, Alice Donut, The Crack Pipes, Suplecs, Amplified Heat, Hobble, USS Friendship and more. DVDs of the film, with literally HOURS of bonus material, will be available at the screening for purchase, and at the downtown afterparty. Come on out, meet the filmmakers, and take in the movie that covers the start of a movement that now includes over 300 skater-owned leagues across the globe! For more information, or to secure a place at the screening, email Jason at jason@indiepix.net. And support the filmmakers by picking up your copy of HELL ON WHEELS through the link below today!

FirstGlance Film Festival

July 28, 2008 - FirstGlance Film Festivals is proud to announce its Call For Entries for the 9th Annual FirstGlance Film Fest Hollywood, beginning August 9th!!

FirstGlance is one of the longest running truly indie bi-coastal film festivals that awards all Official Selections and offers both a live event and an online short film companion contest to allow for more filmmakers to get the attention and visibility their films deserve. Plus we offer a great distribution program for all short content, through our partners, both online and retail.

Bill Ostroff, Festival Director, says, "We are looking for truly indie films created by professionals, students and first-time filmmakers, in all genres, feature and shorts." For submission information and entry fees, check us out online at www.firstglancefilms.com and apply online at www.withoutabox.com beginning August 9th.

And for the first time, FirstGlance Film Fest Philly 11 on October 16-19 2008, will be unveiling an online contest, where the best short film wins a great prize and a screening at the festival. Our online event is free and opens September 16th and runs until opening night of the festival. For more information, go to FirstGlanceFilms.com.

THE BRAVE AND THE KIND - Now In Production!

June 23, 2008 - THE BRAVE AND THE KIND, an original co-production with IndiePix and John W. Yost's Nameinuse Productions has just entered principle photography. The feature film, a semi-autobiographical drama about life, love and death in the filmmaker's upstate New York family, is slated for completion in mid-November for a 2009 film festival run. Click Here for the official press release. The entire production process is being chronicled on the film's official website. Candid cast and crew blogs, behind-the-scenes videos and stills, and interactive fan contests will give audiences unprecendent access to an independent film's production. Every week there will be new content, so check back often for the latest. Want more access? Simply go to the site and sign up for members-only e-news updates, and check out the burgeoning communities on Facebook and MySpace. Support some incredible independent filmmakers, and keep tabs on a project BEFORE the festivals get a hold of it! IndiePix is also proud to distribute Mr. Yost's first feature film, EVERY GOOD THING TO RUST. For more information, or to purchase the film on DVD or Download, click either of the links below.

The Ladies at Silverdocs

June 16, 2008 - Christina Voros' much loved, multiple award-winning short documentary, THE LADIES, plays at one of North America's premiere film festivals, SILVERDOCS, this week. Screening as part of the "JUST THE TWO OF US SHORTS PROGRAM", the 13-film, which took home major prizes at Slamdance, Woodstock, Seattle International, and Gen Art, is also released by IndiePix this week! So if you can't attend the red carpet screenings in Silver Spring, buy your copy on our site now!

johnny berlin 2 on Doc Channel

June 9, 2008 - Everyone's favorite rambling, wannabe novelist train porter, Johnny Berlin, returns in Dominic DeJoseph's follow up to his best-selling documentary, JOHNNY BERLIN. This sequel of sorts, JOHNNY BERLIN 2: NOTES FROM THE DUMPSTER, premieres on the Documentary Channel on Monday, June 16th at 9 pm. For more specifics, go to the Documentary Channel. The trailer for this hilarious film, edited by IndiePix's own cutter extraordinaire, Zack Boger, can be seen here. And don't forget to pre-order your JOHNNY BERLIN 2 DVD, which will be available on July 1st!

OFF THE GRID ON SUNDANCE CHANNEL

May 20, 2008 - OFF THE GRID will be screening as part of the Sundance Channel's "Green Series" this week, starting on Tuesday May 20th at 9:35pm, Friday May 23rd at 10:35am, and Sunday May 25th at 3:35pm. "Four stars...The last chapter of truly free America is unfolding in the New Mexico desert." - Michael Esposito, Chicago Tribune.“An insightful study of an alternative American lifestyle…The Stulbergs, whose film's stunning look is a combination of good cinematography and a majestic New Mexican landscape, achieved marvelous access to what has to be a very closed and insular community, given where and how the inhabitants choose to live. The various characters come to vivid life as crises large, small and unresolved are explored�– John Anderson, Variety

Sangre de mi Sangre Screening This Weekend

May 13, 2008 - IndiePix filmmaker Paola Mendoza's film SANGRE DI MI SANGRE (formerly PADRE NUESTRO) will be opening this weekend at the IFC Theaters. Paola and the director will be at the 8pm showings this Friday and Saturday. Paola: "Many of you have heard me speak about my film and what a great experience it was to be involved in such a wonderful project. After touring the world, from Sundance to San Sabastian to Columbia, it FINALLY opens this weekend in New York. Hope to see you there!" See the trailer at http://www.imdb.com/video/screeplay/vi2531328281/. Check out other Paola films at IndiePixFilms.com.

Every Good Thing to Rust NYC Premiere!

April 29, 2008 - New York City, April 10th, 2008 – Every Good Thing to Rust, the debut feature film by Glens Falls Filmmaker John W. Yost, will premiere in NYC on April 30th, 2008 at 9 P.M. at the Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Ave. New York, NY. The film is the featured narrative in this latest edition of the NewFilmmakers Series, which began in 1998 and over the past ten years has screened over 500 features and 2000 short films. The night's screening will begin with a documentary and a shorts program focused on fantasty and horror, and will end with a Q&A with the director. IndiePix, a New York based distributor of independent films, recently announced its partnership with the director to make the film available to a wider audience. The DVD version distributed by Indiepix includes trailers and commentary with the director and principle cast, and will be available for purchase following the screening. Indiepix also offers Every Good Thing to Rust through its DiscFactory software, which allows users to download the film and burn it to a DVD for home viewing. Yost is excited about using this patented technology for his film. “This is actually filling that missing piece that the [RUST] website doesn’t fill. You no longer need to watch the film in front of your computer; you can burn it straight to disc for living room viewing.� For more information on the screening please contact John W. Yost at (518) 832-6716 or name5026@yahoo.com or Jason Tyrrell at jason@indiepix.net. Images and screeners for review are available upon request. For more information on Every Good Thing to Rust, and to purchase a DVD or Download-to-own visit www.indiepixfilms.com/everygoodthingtorust. For more information on the NewFilmmakers Series, visit www.NEWFILMMAKERS.com.

Cinema Eye Winners Announced

March 19, 2008 - New York, US - The inaugural 'Cinema Eye Honors' for Nonfiction Filmmaking were held last night at the IFC Center Cinema in New York. Over 250 guests from the independent film community, including directors, producers and distributors, as well as members of the film press, attended the event - the first of its kind to specifically recognize nonfiction film. The event was hosted by IndiePix, the internet-based distributor of independent films, along with award-winning Producer AJ Schnack and Thom Powers, Documentary Programmer of the Toronto International Film Festival. Read all about it...

Bob at Soho House Panel

February 12, 2008 - Bob will be speaking from 6:30-8pm as part of the PANEL ON ALTERNATIVE MODES OF DISTRIBUTION at Soho House on Tuesday, February 19th. Other panelists include: Mark Werner from IFC. Mark it in your calendars! Soho House is located at 29-35 9th avenue in NYC.

IndiePix Films launches new Nonfiction Awards

January 10, 2008 - Excerpts of the Indiewire press release A new nonfiction filmmaking award, recognizing the wide breadth of the genre and also specific crafts such as cinematography and editing is being created from within the documentary community. The inaugural event, honoring films from 2007, will be held on March 18, 2008 at the IFC Center in New York City. The awards are to be co-chaired by filmmaker AJ Schnack (director of KURT COBAIN ABOUT A SON?) and Thom Powers, Documentary Programmer of the Toronto International Film Festival. Nominees in 8 categories will be announced on January 20, 2008 at an event for press and the documentary community in Park City, UT (coinciding with the Sundance Film Festival). On that date further details will be revealed about the award, including its official name. Fifteen films have been shortlisted in the category of Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Filmmaking by a blue-ribbon nominating committee of 12 programmers from North America's top film festivals who are esteemed for their specialization in documentary. Those films are: "Billy the Kid" "Deep Water" "The Devil Came on Horseback" "Ghosts of Cite Soleil" "In the Shadow of the Moon" "Into Great Silence" "Lake of Fire" "Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)" "Manufactured Landscapes" "The Monastery - Mr. Vig and the Nun" "No End in Sight" "Sicko" "Taxi to the Dark Side" "The Unforeseen" "Zoo" The idea for the awards was born out of vigorous debate in the documentary community chronicled by Mr. Schnack on his popular nonfiction film blog All these wonderful things. His call for recognizing documentaries based on filmmaking craft and creativity engendered a groundswell of support that resulted in a coalition, including the participation of IndiePix, to support the venture. Mr. Schnack said, "Many of us feel that there is often a gap between the films that have impacted the year in nonfiction filmmaking and those films recognized at year's end. This was particularly true in this past year, which saw such strong advancement in filmmaking craft.We believe that the time is right to acknowledge the vision and innovation of the filmmakers and craftspersons within the broad field of nonfiction, no matter the subject." As the award co-chair, Mr. Schnack has withheld his 2007 film 'Kurt Cobain About a Son' from award consideration to avoid any conflict of interest. Bob Alexander, President of IndiePix, said that: "Over the last year, we have had the opportunity to work with a number of nonfiction filmmakers whose dedication to the art and craft of their films is unparalleled. We are very pleased to be able to contribute to the organization of these awards, to support the concept of superior craft in nonfiction filmmaking, and to bring our full suite of internet technologies to support this event." Mr. Alexander said that Danielle DiGiacomo, the coordinator for Documentary Films at IndiePix, will be the point person for the Company's involvement. Schnack added, "IndiePix, as a forward-thinking company that has proven dedicated to celebrating the best in independent film, is the perfect partner for this project." The nominating committee will select nominees in 8 categories (see the list below) from a list of 76 eligible films. The winners will be chosen by a larger voting pool selected from within the documentary community of top filmmakers, distributors, programmers and writers. Voting will take place beginning in February 2008. Voting will be conducted by secure internet transactions on the IndiePix website. Mr. Powers said, "In choosing voters, we are putting a premium on who watches the most documentaries. Rather than look to outside groups for validation, this is an honor from within the community." Award Categories: Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Filmmaking Outstanding Achievement in an International Feature Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Outstanding Achievement in Direction Outstanding Achievement in Producing Outstanding Achievement in Editing Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography Outstanding Achievement in Graphics and Animation Members of the Nominating Committee: Thom Powers (Chair), Documentary Programmer, Toronto International Film Festival Phoebe Brush, Director of Programming, Full Frame Film Festival Matt Dentler, Producer, South by Southwest Film Festival Sean Farnel, Director of Programming, Hot Docs Tom Hall, Director of Programming, Sarasota Film Festival David Kwok, Director of Programming, Tribeca Film Festival Cara Mertes, Director of Sundance Documentary Film Program, Sundance Film Festival David Nugent, Director of Programming, Hamptons International Film Festival Rachel Rosen, Director of Programming, Los Angeles Film Festival Sky Sitney, Director of Programming, SilverDocs David Wilson, Director, True/False Film Festival Brit Withey, Artistic Director of Festivals, Starz Denver Film Festival

News - Gonzo Screening

January 7, 2008 - IndiePix, along with Universal Beef Productions, is proud to announce a New York screening and DVD release party for the new IndiePix documentary, Gonzo Music Diaries, NYC. The film is a time capsule of the music and politics that shaped New York City in 2004. Music fanatic Concert Joe, punk rocker Tony Petrozza and the film's director, Roy Szuper, set out to create the First Annual Williamsburg Music Festival as a statement of protest against the incoming Republican National Convention. With interviews and performances by Tom Morello of Audioslave and Rage Against the Machine, rock legend and CBGB's founder Hilly Kristal, Agnostic Front lead guitarist and Hardcore Tattoo founder Vinnie Stigma, Yippies leader and activist Dana Beal, legendary TV/radio host Joe Franklin, and Dana Fuchs of Love, Janis and the critically-acclaimed feature musical Across the Universe, Gonzo Music Diaries, NYC is a visceral and poignant exploration of the historical relationship between the city, political activism, and music. The screening will be held this Thursday, January 10th, at 8pm, at the Anthology Film Archives (32 2nd Ave. @ 2nd St.). Open seating, so please come early to reserve your spot. And afterwards, join us at the DVD release party at 2A (25 Avenue A @ 2nd St.). Enjoy drink specials all night, meet the film's director and members of the cast, and grab a t-shirt and signed poster with DVD purchases! For more information, check out www.IndiePixFilms.com/Gonzo, or email Jason Tyrrell, at Jason@IndiePix.net

news-Indiepix acquires fantastic HD feature

January 7, 2008 - Inexplicable disorder. Televisions off-air. Humans ravaging each other for scraps of food and weapons. This is the turn that life takes for three friends trying to find their place in post-9-11 America. Elegantly shot in crisp HD, this dark, eerie portrait of societal meltdown questions the loyalties of friendship and challenges all illusions of safety and order. IndiePix is thrilled to welcome John W. Yost into the fold, and provide the highest quality DVD and download-to-own distribution for Every Good Thing to Rust. The IndiePix release of the film will also include trailers, a commentary track with the director and lead actor, production stills, and more. After production of Every Good Thing to Rust, Filmmaker John W. Yost chose to forgo the festival circuit and offer the entire film as a download, so that any fan of independent film would have access. Check out his website, www.everygoodthingtorust.com, for his fantastic blog about the decision. As well as giving away his movie to any with a computer, Mr. Yost has found a way for his film to make a larger, positive difference in the community. During the month of December John teamed up with several diverse venues in upstate New York to screen the film and raise money for the Homeless and Traveler's Aid Society of the Capital District. The four screenings were very successful, raising some much needed and very appreciated funds. HATAS works with the community's impoverished, helpless, and homeless by offering more than just a handout, but by helping them lead normal lives, one step at a time. Check out the film's trailer at www.IndiePixFilms.com/everygoodthingtorust.

Kensinger's Latest Doc Screens at Slamdance

December 14, 2007 - IndiePix filmmaker Nathan Kensinger, whose short documentary, BOLERIUM, has been thrilling audiences around the country, has scored again with his latest documentary, COVERED TRACKS. The film, an experimental documentary exploring Manhattan's Underground Freedom Tunnel, will be showcased at both the Slamdance Film Festival and the San Francisco Independent Film Festival, two of the biggest independent film festivals in the country! Slamdance takes place in Utah this January. COVERED TRACKS will be screening on January 21st and 24th. Check slamdance.com for more information. The SF IndieFest is in February and will be the film's San Francisco Premiere. The SF IndieFest website is www.sfindie.com. Visit www.myspace.com/covered_tracks for more information, and buy your copy of BOLERIUM now at: www.indiepixfilms.com/bolerium

Billy the Kid in Theaters starting Dec. 5th

November 30, 2007 - BILLY THE KID, which won so many festival accolades and prizes - from Edinburgh, Scotland to Austin, TX to Los Angeles, CA, to Melbourne, Australia - is opening theatrically in New York City. Having won the hearts of festival juries and audiences, this film is now garnering critical support like more laurels and prizes. New York Magazine made the film its only "Critics Pick" for the weekend and David Edelstein writes: "Watching him try to orient himself in a world that makes no sense makes you wonder how any of us ever did." You can read his whole review here, where he starts out saying "The best antidote to Juno is Billy the Kid..." The film was produced "in association with IndiePix" and we have screen credits as Executive Producers and Associate Producers on the project. Bob Alexander, President of IndiePix said: "This is exactly the kind of film that we wanted IndiePix to be associated with and we are grateful for the opportunity and very proud of the work by Director Jennifer Venditti and Producer Chiemi Karasawa." After opening in New York, the film will play in a number of cities around the country. Elephant Eye Films is managing its theatrical exhibition. To get the email updates on Billy The Kid's exhibition schedule, check the film page here. Check ifccenter.com for ticket info and Billy's website for future screening dates in your area.

Danielle at IDFA

November 29, 2007 - IndiePixer, Danielle DiGiacomo is attending IDFA, the world's largest documentary market, in Amsterdam, from November 26th to December 2nd. Danielle has watched CATDANCERS, run into Werner Herzog on a bike, dined with True/False Festival guy, swooned the director of UP THE YANGTZE, and conversed extensively with Joel Heller of DOCS THAT INSPIRE. The world's most exciting non-fiction festival features gems from around the world, including Werner Herzog's newest effort, ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD and Danish filmmaker Phie Ambo's exploration of robots, humanity, and affection, MECHANICAL LOVE. Expect more exciting news to come out of the market.

Nate Kensinger's Short

November 27, 2007 - Beloved Brooklyn filmmaker Nate Kensinger will be showing his latest work, COVERED TRACKS, this Friday at NY Short Docs, an event co-sponsored by DCTV and Rooftop Films. Eschewing the usual rooftop location due to seasonal conditions, the stellar program will screen at DCTV's renovated firehouse headquarters at 87 Lafayette Street. Remember -- Friday, November 30th at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $5 in advance and $7 at the door.

Jordan on Panel

November 14, 2007 - Producer and Distributor Isil Bagdadi from CAVU Pictures joined top industry executives on an informative panel about the realities of independent film distribution this weekend at Hunter College, as part of the Avignon/New York film festival. THE WICKED WICKED GAME OF DISTRIBUTION was held on Saturday, Nov. 10, and the panelists included Rebeca Conget, VP Acquisitions & Distribution, FILM MOVEMENT, Jason Leaf, Co-President, AVATAR FILMS, Jordan Mattos, Acquisitions, Dramatic Features and Shorts, INDIEPIX and Sam Sibble, Manager of Co-productions and Sales, THE FILM SALES COMPANY. Log onto http://www.avignonfilmfest.com for more info.

Autumn's Eyes wins MEMFEST

October 31, 2007 - AUTUMN'S EYES won the Best Documentary Feature award at the 4th Annual Memfest Film Festival in New Jersey. Memfest is part of the New Jersey Moviemaker's Network founded by Hisani Dubois (The Vanishing Black Male) in 2003.

Opening Night Film at Woodstock Fest 2007

October 11, 2007 - "The Fiddle and the Drum" was a meditative dance piece choreographed to Joni Mitchell. Joni and internationally acclaimed choreographer Jean Grand-Maître of the Alberta Ballet Company collaborated to create The Fiddle and The Drum, an engaging performance spectacle combining three art forms; music, dance and art; which Joni calls "the best project of my career." Produced by Joe Media Group of Calgary in association with Bravo!, The Fiddle and The Drum, which premieres October 22 at 8pm ET / 5pm PT, showcases Mitchell's life-long concerns regarding environmental neglect and the warring nature of mankind. Mitchell's provocative music served as Grand-Maître's manuscript and inspiration in choreographing a ballet that celebrates the profoundly humanistic questions and testimonies expressed so poetically in Mitchell's compositions. The performance features three new songs from Mitchell's latest album, Shine, including a remix of Big Yellow Taxi, and selections from her earlier recordings such as: For the Roses, Passion Play, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The Beat of Black Wings, Sex Kills, The Three Great Stimulants and The Fiddle and The Drum. As the Alberta Ballet's dancers give metaphorical life to the eternal music, Mitchell's most recent works of art are projected on a large screen on stage. These iconic images were choreographed by Mitchell to appear at pivotal moments in the ballet. The special was filmed at the Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary, Alberta and was also produced with the financial participation of the Alberta Film Development Program, The Canadian Television Fund and CAVCO. For more news, go to our blog at http://weblog.indiepix.net/.

Indiepix Sponsors Party and Panels at Evil City Film Festival

October 9, 2007 - When asked by the lovely Ingrid Kopp of Shooting People to co-sponsor a Friday night party with the Evil City Film Festival, we jumped at the chance. We were not disappointed. Numerous filmmakers and film lovers came out to Friday night's "social" at the Bowery's Crash Mansion. Among those who got stellar goodie bags featuring the new Wholpin DVD magazine and light-up IndiePix pens were Brooklyn Independent's Joe Pacheco, documentarian Eric Philips-Horst, blogger Jennifer Warren, Darkon producer Thoma Kikis, and City Unplugged director Ilkka Jarvilaturi. Two days later, IndiePix's Danielle DiGiacomo was in the house at the Lower East Side bar Fontana's, to moderate one lively panel about Film Bloggers and sit on another about Internet Distribution. The talks, perhaps fueled by pints of beer, were hilarious and productive. Sitting on the Film Blogging panel were some of the best in the biz: Stu VanAirsdale, editor of The Reeler; Karina Longworth of Spout; Pamela Cohn of Still in Motion and Renew Media; and the inimitable Michael Tully of Boredom at Its Boredest. The discussion covered everything from the new Eric Rohmer film to open letters to Sam Mendes. After a brief break in the bar it was on to a new topic, Internet Distribution, which was moderated by the wonderful Ingrid Kopp. Viral marketing heroes Arin Crumley and Susan Bruice (aka the Four-Eyed Monsters), IndiePix filmmaker and friend Leah Meyerhoff (Twitch on the Brooklyn Independent Compilation) and film director Jerry Rapp (Mojave Phone Booth). All in all, a side-splitting, engaging, mentally invigorating day!

Film screening of Sanjay Kak's Jashn-e-Azadi

September 25, 2007 - South Asia @ The New School presents a film screening of Sanjay Kak's Jashn-e-Azadi (How we celebrate freedom) A story of Kashmir, Tuesday, September 25, 2007, 4:00 to 8:00 pm at the Lang Student Center, 55 W. 13th St, 2nd Floor. It is August 15th, India's Independence day, and the Indian flag ritually goes up in the heart of Srinagar, Kashmir. But the empty streets and the sullen silence that greet India's claim on Kashmir spark off old questions about freedom - azadi - and the denial of freedom. In the aftermath of 18 years of an armed struggle, with 60,000 dead and nearly 7,000 missing, death and loss is everywhere. Sometimes it is marked; sometimes in the process of being uncovered, and sometimes expressed in the fractured minds of ordinary Kashmiris. Using a mix of verite footage, rare archival material, poetry and text, the film is a provocative look at Indian democracy in the 60th year of India's independence, and a reflection on power, resistance and "freedom's terrible thirst". Sanjay Kak is a self-taught, award-winning, independent documentary filmmaker whose recent work reflects his interests in ecology, alternatives and resistance politics. His films WORDS ON WATER, about the struggle against large dams in the Narmada valley in central India, and IN THE FOREST HANGS A BRIDGE, about the Adi tribe in Arunachal, north-east India, gathering to build a thousand foot bridge of cane and bamboo, have been widely screened both in India and abroad.

A World of Limitless Possibilities, Awaiting Discovery

September 11, 2007 - Next week, on Monday 17th September IndiePix and a U.K based network management technology company NetworkedPlanet jointly launch a new facility that will provide intelligent, interactive access to the world of Independent films - 'Discovery'. The launch will be held at at the British Film Institute, London. IndiePix will announce and demonstrate a unique, new, state-of-the-art interactive service to provide intelligent pathways through the large and growing world of independent film for indie film community. For the first time, film lovers will explore thousands of the world's best films from independent filmmakers, discover a film of interest to them, and order or even download their choice. At the launch, IndiePix's President, Bob Alexander, will outline how the economics of independent film production and the explosion of independent film festivals lead to a vast expansion of extraordinary titles available to consumers. Addressing the growing world of independent film, he will demonstrate how film lovers can explore, discover and order or download the title of their selection from thousands of the world's best independent films. The demonstration is based on a catalog of over 3,000 curated independent films from around the world, many of which are otherwise unavailable to the film fan. This catalog is planned to grow to 10,000 over the next 18 months. Bob Alexander will be joined at the briefing by Kal Ahmed, Founder of NetworkedPlanet, who will explain how the website uses a revolutionary intelligent navigation system which allows IndiePixx's in-house team of film experts to insert all sorts of information - such as the theme of the film, its focus on key topics, its filmmaking style - based on their expert evaluation. The system will then create relevant links, so that when someone is browsing any one film online, it will suggest other links based on relevance and similarities. 'Discovery' will be immediately available for the IndiePix community to explore so watch out for the announcement next week!

Small Steps on PBS

September 4, 2007 - IndiePix buddy David Becker is proud to announce the premiere of Small Steps: Creating the High School for Contemporary Arts on PBS this Thursday September 6th and on DVD September 20th. After more than four years of hard work by lots of people it's finally finished -- he'd like to thank again everyone who helped out and participated in the film! Small Steps: Creating the High School for Contemporary Arts Premieres Thursday September 6th! A film by David Becker, Bob Eisenhardt and Barbara Kopple Small Steps: Creating the High School for Contemporary Arts tells the story of a new "small school" created inside one of New York City's most dangerous high schools. Through the stories of students, teachers, and parents this intimate film takes audiences into the heart of public education in America. Small Steps, produced by two-time Academy Award winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple and directed by David Becker, premieres nationally on Thursday, September 6, 2007, 10:00-11:30 p.m. ET (check local listings) on PBS. In New York City the film will air at 12:30am that night (technically Friday morning). Visit PBS.org to find out when it's playing in your city. The DVD will be available from PBS Home Video on September 20th and can be ordered at: http://www.shoppbs.org/entry.jsp?source=PE&entry=2835062 For more information see: www.pbs.org/previews/smallsteps And to see a short promo video go to: http://youtube.com/watch?v=H3Ax1qe0C_8 For additional information, contact David Becker: dbecker1@gmail.com

Darling Darling on TOP

September 4, 2007 - IndiePix buddy Matthew Lessner's short film, DARLING DARLING, starring Michael Cera of the hit comedy SUPERBAD, has been one of the top 5 selling short films on iTunes for the last few weeks. It's currently #3, duking it out with a bunch of Pixar films. It's the only indie film in the top 10! Much more blessings to Lessner. And check him out on our filmmaker interview pages! "Michael Cera delivers as always, in a hilariously big way, but I believe there more to this film then meets the eye. Under close inspection the films absurdity and surreality has much to say about modern American suburbia, and absurdity of it's formalities, especially in a time of such global and domestic turmoil. I sense a great deal of social subversion in this film, as well as a finely tuned, unique sense of deadpan humor" - iTunes

A Tribute to Auteurs of World Cinema

August 29, 2007 - Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (July 14, 1918 - July 30, 2007) and Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni (September 29, 1912 - July 30, 2007) passed away July 30, 2007.. The two filmmakers have been variously called "the greatest surviving luminaries of the heroic age of the auteur", "the giants of art cinema" and "the towering giants of world cinema" by the media. While they shared a chronological commonality in death passing away on the same day, their philosophical approach to filmmaking had little in common. While Bergman was a moralist, Antonioni was Marxist in his approach. Antonioni's films reflect his approach in their spare plots and dialogue, in harsh ridicule of the rich and wealthy and an impatience for the spiritual aspects of human existence. Bergamn's work on the other hand dealt with questions of death, impermanence and faith. However, they both share the center-stage today in their death as they did in their life by making seminal contributions to European and world cinema and by serving as inspiration to generations of filmmakers. As a tribute to these luminaries of cinema, our curators have hand-picked works of Bergman and Antonioni and created a "Bergman & Antonioni" Collection specially for the IndiePix community. Apart from having most important works of these filmmakers we have also included films like SUN RA - SPACE IS THE PLACE that "blends 1950s sci-fi, '70s Blaxploitation, and Ingmar Bergman's THE SEVENTH SEAL an intense, provocative mix; LIGHT KEEPS ME COMPANY which is a documentary on Sven Nykvist who shot most of Ingmar Bergman's films and THE TASTE OF TEA with a psychedelic twist on Ingmar Bergman's Fanny & Alexander. We hope you enjoy this collection as much as we did creating it.

Billy the Kid wins Edinburgh

August 22, 2007 - From producer Chiemi Karasawa: BILLY THE KID wins Best Documentary at the Edinburgh Film Festival!!! Awards Ceremony is this Saturday in Edinburgh. Thanks to all of you for your support!" This marks the fourth win for the doc. It won the audience award at Melbourne Film Fest earlier this month.

Indiepix and Canada Team Up

July 24, 2007 - IndiePix teams up with the National Film Board of Canada to bring you a group of amazing and hard-to-find social issue mockumentaries and old-school vintage after-school specials. Just you wait and see - these are going to be brilliant. A lot of these films are going to be quite short - ranging from 5 minutes to an hour in length, but they'll be worth the wait. Among them will be one of Keanu Reeves' earliest performances caught on film, as well as Peter Watkins' LA COMMUNE - a 345 minute epic spanning 3 discs that tells the story of the French proletarian group established by rebellious Parisian citizens as they battle against The National Assembly in 1871 (if that wasn't a mouthful, I don't know what is!). We are so excited to be able to bring you these little-known gems and thank the National Film Board of Canada for helping make this possible. Stay tuned for upcoming release dates.

Jack Spade Compilation

July 23, 2007 - Jack Spade is a high-end retail boutique located in Manhattan's bustling fashion-forward Soho district. The brainchild of Andy Spade, husband of the also-eponymous handbagstress Kate, offers carefully picked DVDs alongside a selection of luxury ties, shoes, bags, wallets, vintage magazines and books. After a year-long contractual hold-up, IndiePix is proud to announce that our Jack Spade compilation DVD will finally see the light of day for a tentative X-mas holiday release.

Release slate Summer 2007

July 2, 2007 - July will see the re-release of the BROOKLYN INDEPENDENT short film compilation DVD, curated by the program's director, Joe Pacheco. The disc includes a remastered version of charming works by Ray Tintori ("Jettison Your Loved Ones"), Benh Zeitlin ("Egg") and Lance Edmond's "Vacationland", which stars the promising new talent Luke Schurman. Lila Yomtoob's HIGH LIFE, a Friends-like homage to young artists in love in Brooklyn, David Dixon's UNLOOSENED AND ROOT, and Ricardo Lobo's double release, SISTERS OF LADAKH and WOMEN OF THE SAND, will round out the month. August will end with a bang, as Michael Tully and Damian Lahey's long-awaited COCAINE ANGEL makes its auspicious debut here, and the lovely short documentary HENRY MILLER ASLEEP AND AWAKE, originally shot in 1979 and starring the eponymous author, sees its first ever release on DVD. Only at IndiePixFilms.com.

Desert Bayou Gets Theatrical Release

June 14, 2007 - Alex LeMay's film, DESERT BAYOU, will be released theatrically on August 24. DESERT BAYOU screened at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in 2006 and was included in the collection of films released by IndiePix and Full Frame for the library market as THE KATRINA EXPERIENCE. A trailer for the film is on-line at YouTube at this address. This film examines whether two cultures can come together in a time of utter chaos, or whether their differences prove too great a challenge to overcome. In their own words evacuees of Hurricane Katrina, tell how they survived the storm of the century and out of the rubble ended up at a military installation in the deserts of Utah. With interviews from evacuees, political, military and religious leaders, community and social figures, the questions of race, politics and religion hurdle towards each other in this truly American story. See the review and trailer on the IndiePix website. In anticipation of its release in Salt Lake City, Utah, the Salt Lake Tribune stirred up some controversy with its article under the headline: "Katrina documentary praises Utahns for helping hand, harshly criticizes officials." A copy of which is available online here. Alex welcomes the attention for the film, quoting the line from the publicity department -- Just spell our names right! IndiePix is very pleased to have been involved with this project since its first screening and contributed financially to its post-festival edit. Alex was very helpful in pulling the collection together for THE KATRINA EXPERIENCE and has been a strong supporter of its library release. Alex comments that the New York City screening, coinciding with the second anniversary of the Katrina event, will be marked by additional publicity and public relations events. We're looking forward to that!

Cocaine Angel Premieres in Jacksonville, FL

June 7, 2007 - After a successful premiere at L.A.'s Laemmle Sunset cinema, COCAINE ANGEL will be screening at Jacksonville, Florida's MOCA Museum (http://www.mocajacksonville.org/) on June 13th, kicking off the venue's Summer Cinema Series. Preceded by a few of writer-star Damian Lahey's shorts and music video, the feature will be followed by a Q & A with the mesmerizing man himself.

VOTE for LAURYN and A TRIPLET AFFAIR this SAT

May 31, 2007 - Director Lauryn Siegel's short film, A TRIPLET AFFAIR, will be screening this Saturday night at 9pm at 3rd Ward in Bushwick as part of the RIATS Art Festival. RIATS, The Rabbits in a Turtle Shell Fest, features installation art, live music, and films by over 20 young artists. If you vote for the film, the winner will receive a full Final Cut Studio package. 3rd Ward is a 20,000 sq. ft. workspace and studio facility for artists & creative professionals. It is located at 361 Stagg St.

IN THE NEWS - COCAINE ANGEL MAKES WEST COAST PREMIERE IN L.A.

May 31, 2007 - On Tuesday, May 29th, the Mike Tully/Damian K. Lahey feature COCAINE ANGEL, made its West Coast premiere at the Laemmle Sunset 5 Cinema, just across from the legendary Chateau Marmont in West Hollwood. The film, which garnered a 3-star review from THE NEW YORK POST and earned director Tully a space in FILMMAKER MAGAZINE'S "New Faces of Independent Cinema," played incredibly well to the L.A. crowd, who stayed for an extensive and spirited Q & A with writer-star Lahey (himself lauded by Variety as giving a "pitch perfect performance.") Lahey also pulled up Indiepix's Danielle DiGiacomo, who acquired the title for our distribution, to the front of the cinema, and they both talked about ways in which Indiepix would maximize innovative distribution opportunities for this excellent film. Afterward, the crowd all filed to Sushi Dan's next door, where fine food and cocktails were offered to the local filmmakers, actors, and press (including a representative from NPR) who conversed well into the night.

In The News: Divided We Stand Plays at 2007 Silver Lake Film Festival

May 14, 2007 - Los Angeles's SILVER LAKE FILM FESTIVAL (http://www.silverlakefilmfestival.org/), which is fast becoming the West Coast's hippest celebration of cinema, included a screening of Tom Drew's election documentary, DIVIDED WE STAND, at this year's incarnation. The festival, which took place between May 3rd and 12th, celebrated its 7th year, partnering with hip sponsors such as Starbucks Coffee and Current Tv. Among the excellent line up of films shown were IndiePixFilms.com Spotlight Filmmaker Ray Tintori's DEATH TO THE TINMAN, good friend Daniel Mulloy's DAD, and Chris Deaux's THE LAST WESTERN (which played at IndiePixFilms.com and Woodstock Film Festival's WOODSTOCK IN THE CITY Festival last July). The programming of DIVIDED WE STAND proves that, though filmed during the 2004 election, issues of politics and the American people are always relevant.

SENTENCED HOME to air on PBS on May 15th.

May 9, 2007 - IndiePixFilms.com is proud to announce that, starting on May 15th, we will be distributing David Grabias and Nicole Newnham's documentary, SENTENCED HOME. Why May 15th? To coincide with the broadcast of the documentary, an urgent and compelling look at United States' flawed immigrant policy via the stories of 3 Cambodian-American refugees' deportation, on PBS' respected and acclaimed INDEPENDENT LENS series. http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/sentencedhome/. Make sure to have your televisions switched to PBS on May 15th at 10 pm, for the world premiere broadcast! The film follows the harrowing ordeal of three young Cambodian men, whose rebellious teenage transgressions -- in the face of a post 9/11 universe -- lead to their immediate deportation back to Cambodia, a land from which they are completely alienated. The hour-long film touches on timely issues such as immigration, globalization, terrorism, and prejudice in a totally engaging manner. Independent Lens has put up an extremely comprehensive website for the film, which details ways of engaging with this issue in the community and political arena. The film, which was favorably reviewed in Variety http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117929989.html?categoryid=31&cs=1, played to acclaim at a variety of major festivals, including Seattle International and San Francisco Asian-American International. Buy the disc for only $14.95 at indiepixfilms.com.

Paola Mendoza wins

May 1, 2007 - WITHOUT THE KING, a soaring documentary about a young Swasi princess who learns that her kingdom is not all that it appears to be, won the Special Jury Prize for Best International Documentary at HotDocs in Toronto. North America's largest documentary festival, HotDocs presents a selection of more than 100 cutting-edge documentaries from Canada and around the globe. Through its industry programmes, the Festival also provides a full range of professional development, market and networking opportunities for documentary professionals. We congratulate the tireless duo Paola Mendoza and Michael Skolnik on their win!

IFF Boston Line-up

April 24, 2007 - Expect some lively and witty festival coverage at this year's 5th Annual Independent Film Festival of Boston. IndiePix is not only sponsoring but also on hand for some fun video blogging. Filmmakers beware! FAY GRIM, starring the miraculously jocund Parker Posey, will open the fest this Wednesday, April 25th. The film, directed by Hal Hartley, is named a sequel to 1997's HENRY FOOL, considered by most to be the auteur's masterpiece. Among other notable films in the line-up are Joe Swanberg's festival hit HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS, Jonathan King's BLACK SHEEP, Matthew Lessner's BY MODERN MEASURE, Julia Loktev's DAY NIGHT DAY NIGHT, Macky Alston's KILLER WITHIN, Simon Rumley's THE LIVING AND THE DEAD, and Tony Kaye's LAKE OF FIRE. Ted Hope makes an appearance on what promises to be a lively and informative panel discussion on Sunday April 29 at Jimmy Tingle Theater, while IndiePix's own Danielle DiGiacomo will be on hand at the Non-Theatrical Distribution panel on Saturday, April 28.

News: Full Frame Festival

April 17, 2007 - With a team of film enthusiasts including President Bob Alexander, Head of Narrative Acquisitions Jordan Mattos, Documentary Film Coordinator Danielle DiGiacomo, Catalog Manager Janine Waters, theatrical agent/cameraman David Persky, IndiePix advisor/friend and curate of Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series Joe Pacheco, Southern Documentary Fund associate Jessye McDowell, and Working Families demographer Asher Gaylord-Ross, the IndiePix crew was a huge, passionate presence at this year's Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. This year's festival marked IndiePix's second annual involvement in the festival that NPR called, "The Cannes of documentary festivals," and also marked the tenth anniversary of the Festival as a whole. In celebration, Festival Director Nancy Buirski programmed a "Power of Ten" theme, in which ten of America's most important filmmakers, including Julia Reichert (A LION IN THE HOUSE), D.A. Pennebaker (DON'T LOOK BACK), Michael Moore (FAHREINHEIT 9/11) and Charles Burnett (KILLER OF SHEEP). IndiePix kept busy interviewing as many fantastic filmmakers as we could find, among them the prolific Paola Mendoza (who directed STILL STANDING, part of the Katrina Experience Collection and produced WITHOUT A KING, a highlight of this year's festival), Gary Hustwit (director of the font-astic documentary HELVETICA, which also played South by Southwest and moves on to Sundance, Annie Sundberg (brilliant filmmaker behind last year's THE TRIALS OF DARRYL HUNT - which won Full Frame's Audience Award and was shortlisted for an Oscar) and this year's powerful THE DEVIL CAME ON HORSEBACK - which garnered the Working Films Award and the Seeds of War Award) and Julia Reichert (one of the "Ten", who won a special mention last year for her remarkable four-hour documentary about children with cancer, A LION IN THE HOUSE, and presented Michael Moore's ROGER AND ME this year). Watch out for these interviews -- they are coming soon to a computer screen near you!

News: We Are the Children Screening

April 10, 2007 - Talented filmmaker Dianna Dilworth will host a party on Tuesday, April 17th, celebrating IndiePix's DVD release of her Michael Jackson fan documentary, WE ARE THE CHILDREN. The soiree, at which the film will be screened, takes place at Willamsburg hotspot, Monkeytown, a stylish modernist restaurant/bar/gallery that places host to numerous art and film events throughout the year. Monkeytown is a short walk away from the Bedford Street L stop, at 58 N 3rd Street between Kent and Wythe Avnues. Admission will be $5, with a $10 food and drink minimum. Doors open at 8:30 and reservations are recommended. In addition, DVDs will be on sale. For more information, see: http://www.monkeytownhq.com/michaeljackson.html www.myspace.com/wearethechildrenmovie www.wearethechildrenmovie.com www.indiepixfilms.com

Lila Yomtoob chooses Indiepix

March 27, 2007 - Emmy-award winning sound designer/filmmaker Lila Yomtoob signs on with Indiepix for her film, HIGH LIFE, about the trials and tribulations of a group of artists living in Brooklyn, circa 1999. The project, shot digitally, is one of the first examples of the new wave of verite filmmaking that topped the majority of fests this spring. Expected release date Summer 2007.

A screening of MARION this Thursday

March 20, 2007 - IndiePix filmmaker Ry Russo Young's new feature, ORPHANS, won the special jury award in the narrative feature competition at SXSW film festival last week! Ry also acted in a film, HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS, that screened at the festival as a spotlight premiere and was met with an extremely warm reception (an award for the director Joe Swanberg). This Thursday, MARION will screen in a group show called Inside Job organized by Wooooo magazine and Earnest Sewn. If you're in the NYC area, make sure to attend! Screening Information: The Anchor 310 Spring Street at Greenwich Street Group Screening: 6:30pm - 9pm Complimentary Cocktails: 9pm - 11pm

BILLY THE KID Wins Top Jury Prize at SXSW

March 14, 2007 - Congratulations to BILLY THE KID, to Jennifer Venditti (filmmaker) and Chiemi Karasawa (Producer), and to Billy Price and his mom, Penny for winning Top Jury Prize at SXSW. The film had its world premier on Sunday night and was well received. One person said, "I had to see this film, there was so much buzz about it!" On Tuesday, its second screening was sold out. Why are we so excited? We at Indiepix had the opportunity to work with Jen and Chiemi on finishing the project. On Monday afternoon, we had a chance to sit down with Jen and Chiemi at our Interview Booth. Look for this interview to be available shortly on our website as well as many other new and great filmmaker interviews. More news from SXSW to come! Synopsis: "I'm not black, I'm not white, not foreign...just different in the mind -- different in the brains, that's all..." explains 15-year-old Billy in Jennifer Venditti's provocative coming of age film. Billy's intuitive commentary and intimate verite footage reveal a unique attitude as he responds to a paniful childhood, first time love, and his experience as an outsider in small town Maine. By turns humorous and disturbing, this portrait challenges the viewer to look beyond labels and contemplate the future of a teen still in the process of becoming.

Johnny Berlin a hit in Paris and Colorado!

March 5, 2007 - February 19th to the 26th brought Paris' unique Cinerail Festival, an international festival devoted to "train and retro on film." (Not as much as a niche category as one might think, considering one of the very first films ever was THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAIN ROBBERY!). DeJoseph had the opportunity to travel to Paris and see a packed house of French filmlovers respond enthusiastically to his fine documentary! He blogs about it on our blog, check it out at http://weblog.indiepix.net/2007/03/01/johnny-berlin-hits-paris/. Meanwhile, back in Durango, Colorado, a breathtaking town high in the mountains, JOHNNY BERLIN played to a sold-out house, attracting so much attention and Kudos that the community radio station, KDUR, decided to dedicate a portion of their program REELS TO RADIO to the film! As Program Director Bryant Liggett wrote to our director friend: "Your movie rules.....watched it in Durango yesterday. Best thing I've seen in a long time." Congratulations Dominic! And Johnny, of course!

Indiepix Interviews Filmmakers at South by Southwest

February 26, 2007 - The Indiepix team is looking forward to our third year in a row at Austin's South by Southwest Film Festival, where we will again have a booth set up in the Convention Center. This year, however, we bring more than just CD-Roms and light-up pens! For 2007, we have an entire production crew and set ready to film a series of interviews with the creme de la creme of the independent film scene -- film directors, festival programmers, laywers, sales reps! On our Charlie Rose-like set, we plan on having a series of dynamic interviewers (among them the lovely and talented Agnes Varnum of First Run/Icarus Features and http://www.agnesvarnum.com/) ask some incisive questions. We will then edit these into 2-minute clips, and post them on our website at www.indiepixfilms.com. South by Southwest Film Festival, Agnes, and everyone interviewed is invited to post the clips as well, so some amazing cross-blogging promotion can take place. Among those lined up for interviews are: DANCE PARTY U.S.A. director Aaron Katz (who will attend the festival for the second year in a row with his new film, QUIET CITY), Gen Art Festival director Jeffrey Abramson, documentarian extraordinare Ashley Sabin (MARDI GRAS: MADE IN CHINA and KAMP KATRINA), Woodstock Film Festival founder Laurent Rejto, and Canadian filmmaker Ron Mann (whose last South by Southwest movie, TALES OF THE RAT FINK, played to a sold out theatre and had graphics adorning the festival's official tote bags). Stay tuned for more updates from Hollywood of the South!

Paola Mendoza's New Film

February 20, 2007 - Unlike most of her contemporaries, Paola Mendoza is not content with just her lovely visage on the big screen. Starring in films like 2004's ON THE OUTS and the Sundance winner PADRE NUESTRO (which won the coveted Jury Prize for Best Dramatic Feature last month), Paola has carefully woven a tapestry of documentary works - last year's AUTUMN EYES and STILL STANDING (part of the KATRINA EXPERIENCE, available only at Indiepixfilms.com) - that define a new kind of performer in the digitial age: one that controls her stake in the medium by shaping it. Like Sarah Polley's debut feature AWAY FROM HER, AUTUMN'S EYES is a mature first work by an actress who's acting chops come close to a rigorous eye behind the camera. Paola has not just one but four films in post-production, placing her alongside the likes of Cara Seymour, Lori Petty, Kevin Corrigan, Melissa Leo and Alan Ruck.

Amir Bar-Lev's new film

February 9, 2007 - Indiepix is proud to announce that documentary filmmaker Amir Bar-Lev, whose film NEW ORLEANS FURLOUGH was featured as part of our KATRINA EXPERIENCE documentary collection, has scored yet again with his feature film MY KID COULD PAINT THAT. The film, which chronicles the controversy surrounding the rise of 4-year-old Maria Olmstead to fame and fortune in the modern art world, was a blazing success at Sundance - picked up by A & E Indie Films and then purchased by Sony Pictures Classics for a cool two million! Once again, here is proof that we here at Indiepix support and cultivate the best up-and-coming filmmakers on the scene!

Jack Spade short films

January 29, 2007 - Jack Spade grew out of Andy Spade's realization that handbags could be both utilitarian and stylish - not just for women but also for men. Starting out by selling utility bags to hardware stores back in 1997 with his eponymous wife Kate, Mr. Spade collaborated with an LA art student (Jack?) to create a fine niche of classics in the heart of downtown. The store itself, a wonderful collection of masculin-feminin bric-a-bracs, which includes the random one-off dvd (a recent collaboration with Palm Pictures resulted in the Mike Mills directed PAPER BOYS), will soon make room for a cross-curated collection of short films hand-picked by Jack Spade's Matt Singer and Indiepix's Jordan Mattos! Expected release date March 2007.

In the News: 1/15/07

January 15, 2007 - Danielle DiGiacomo, Documentary Acquisitions Director and Jordan Mattos, Manager of Narrative Acquisitions for Indiepix, head off to Sundance on Tuesday, January 16th to schmooze with the biggest, best, and meanest in the film industry! Though we've heard it's cold, we've bought long johns, stocked up on business cards, and are headed out to see as many great films as possible (and of course, pick them up for Indiepix). Friends we expect to see a lot of are Gen Art's Jeff Abramson; the inimitable Indiewire trio -- Eugene, Brian, and Jimmy Israel; lawyer extraordinare Steven Beer; Woodstock Film Festival's lovely Meira Blaustein; filmmaker Daniel Mulloy; The Reeler's Stu Van Airsdale; A & E Indie's Ryan Harrington; and countless others. We will be resting our heads (for probably only two hours a night, given all the nonstop action!) in a condo at the Raquet Club, where most of the press screeners are held. Rooming with us will be a team of energetic London lads who are starting their own online outfit and film festival, as well as director Tze Chun and his crew. Tze, a friend of ours, has a short film, WINDOWBREAKER, in the festival! We'll be interested to see all the honchos fighting over his attention! Stay tuned to the Indiepix blog for periodic updates of the Park City action!

In the News 1/8/07

January 8, 2007 - New York-based filmmaker Yanna Kroyt Brandt has chosen Indiepixfilms.com to release the long-awaited EVERYONE'S DEPRESSED, a colorful account of one person's struggle with getting through an apparently normal day. After years of looking, Sophia has finally gotten a job teaching tough blue-collar college kids literature. She is terrified by the prospect, terrified by the other professors who treat her with condescension, terrified by the students who mostly ignore her. In short, she is terrified of everything in her life. With every strike in the book against her, Sophia finally triumphs over her depression and becomes her own woman in both surprising and life-affirming ways. Indiepixfilms.com releases EVERYONE'S DEPRESSED on both DVD and Download-to-Own formats, ready for your enjoying!!

in the news - 12/31/06

December 31, 2006 - Curator Joe Pacheco of the Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series, has finalized its line-up of 10 stellar shorts film for the upcoming DVD compilation, to be released in association with Indiepixfilms.com in mid-January. They have all played at major festivals and won important awards but, most importantly, they have played at Pacheco's semi-weekly screening series, which takes place every other Monday at Park Slope's cozy, velvet-draped Barbes. The films are the following: TRUE STORY (Sundance '06) - 3 min - 2006 - USA - English - B&W An elderly woman remembers a tragic childhood moment. BARBARA LEATHER (SilverDocs '06) - 10 min - 2005 Barbara Shaum, a pioneer craftswoman in NYC's East Village, muses on the art of leather crafting, her first sip of ale in the city's oldest men's-only pub, and her pickiest client-- Chiki the llama. LA VIE D'UN CHIEN (New Directors/New Films '05) - 14 min - 2005 Paris, 1962. A scientist formulates a serum that transforms him into a dog, but it's only when he changes back into a human that his troubles begin. SPIN (60 Festivals, 35 Awards) - 8 min - 2005 (www.doubleedgefilms.com) A mysterious DJ is sent to a city block to mend a series of chain reactions that occur in our everyday lives. TWITCH (Student Academy Award Finalist) - 10 min - 2005 (www.leahmeyerhoff.com) Unable to find the emotional intimacy she craves, a young girl must come to terms with her emerging sexuality, her disabled mother and the irrational fear that her mother's disability is contagious. GRAND LUNCHEONETTE (Slamdance '06) - 5 min - 2005 (www.pumpernickelinc.com) "Grand Luncheonette" documents the last days of one of 42nd Streets unforgettable lunch counters. EGG (Best Animated Short - Slamdance -05) - 9 min - 2005 This surrealistic interpretation of Herman Melville's Moby Dick tells a microscopic tale of epic tragedy. JETTISON YOUR LOVED ONES (Slamdance '06) - 6 min - 2005 A man addicted to faking his own death strives for glory while his abandoned son, a boxer who thinks he

in the news: 12/25/06

December 25, 2006 - A customer asks (in a frustrated way): "Quick question: Do your movies got some DRM? Bob Alexander responds: Thanks for that question--and the quick answer is NO! But while we're at it, let's talk about this a minute. In our view: DRM=Copy Prevention=Using Technology to Control Behavior That equation is why we think "DRM" as it is understood today is a Very Bad Thing. What we implement is a watermarking system that identifies the content you purchase as yours. You can carrying your copy around to play on someone else's DVD player and you can make a backup for your archives. But if you make a thousand copies and put them up for sale or make them otherwise available, they'll still be marked as yours. That would be bad! Our filmmakers specifically endorse this approach to the idea of "fair use" in our agreements -- and our idea of fair use implements the concept outlined above. You as a consumer have the right to the fair use of the product you bought and own, and the filmmaker has the right to payback all the loans he took out to make his film in the first place and to make a living besides. Our system balances those various demands. And our business model is part of it. More than half of the retail price of the film you buy goes to the filmmaker. In buying a filmmaker's film from us, you are directly supporting the filmmaker -- and you also have your rights as a buyer/owner of the product. Have you ever tried Paul Newman popcorn? It's pretty much popcorn -- it's ok but what can you say about popcorn? But people buy Paul Newman's popcorn because they know that all the profits from Newman's company go to specific charities. And they get to enjoy the popcorn. That's the IndiePix idea of how you ought to be able to enjoy a film from us using our Download-to-Own process. Try it--you'll like It! Bob Alexander

in the news: 12/15/06

December 15, 2006 - Three Original Shorts Available for Download-to-Own from Indiepix

New York, Dec. 15th, 2006

One new documentary short and two fiction pieces-- ranging in theme from the fantastical to the macabre

in the news: 12/01/06

December 1, 2006 - The Association of Small Foundations The Association of Small Foundations invited IndiePix and the Full Frame Festival to their annual conference in New Orleans in late October to present Neil Alexander

in the news 12/01/06

December 1, 2006 - Alex Le May's film, Desert Bayou, focuses on the travails of several hundred New Orleans families that were airlifted to Utah after the storm. The first they knew of it was when the Jet Blue pilot on one of the airlift planes said, "the weather in Salt Lake City is ..." What a story! The film played earlier this week (November 27, 2006) at the Cornell Cinema Post Katrina film series entitled "Hell or High Water". Alex was included in this series along with Spike Lee's film and a couple of short films and the overall program attracted a great deal of attention on campus. Alex played a key role in bringing the entire Katrina Project together. He was one of the first filmmakers to agree to put his film in this unique, Library-only, distribution program, and his leadership helped bring several others along as well. Thank you, Alex! And congratulations on the continuing recognition your film is receiving. We expected no less.