Crazy unique indie film slapstick fun in beautiful black & white #hundredsofbeavers #slapstick #indiefilm #blackandwhite #bluray

The Legend of Auntie Po by Shing Yin Khoi could be a really great film. Give them mid-budget indie film money to make it with their puppets or in a painterly animation style bringing the current art to life. Or mostly live action but Auntie Po and Pei Pei are giant puppets like Terry Gilliam films.

its crazy how the end goal of indie animation is to no longer be indie and just replicate all the worst practices of the film industry at large

The film industry is in a weird place right now but I am definitely in favor of making them pay the fuck attention to indie animation. The big studios are being left behind, and while I don't care if they become irrelevant, I'd much rather the shots start being called by indie studios and audiences.

Yes there has been, for several years in fact. In fact x2 there’s INDIE FILM FESTIVALS all over the world or even seasonally. And in fact x3 some cinemas here in Europe literally air indie shows/films regularly as their schtick compared to the common modern cinema (we have one in my city in fact!)

"indie just means self-funded"

Well they aren't that if they have been signing contracts to create merch and showcase the film in theatres and advertise for it?

Unless gooseworx is over there sewing fucking gummigoo plushies by hand (although i wouldnt put it past her lmao)

i see this a lot with indie projects, music film animation etc, where the artist's personal shortcomings render their entire work worthless. i guess this isnt really a new phenomenon though

my fear is that fans aren't going to realize- or simply don't care about- how revolutionary this whole glitch "bring an indie film to theaters" situation is and will squander a great opportunity to give more power to creators, by arguing about keeping glitch indie by sabotaging this

At TAAFi, I was lucky to see this indie thesis film: call "Bride of the Wind" about a young Korean lady's sacrifice as a bride to help her younger sister and grandma live more comfortably. It was so well made and won some awards. #indieanimation

On account of an email from a local indie movie theater, I went to search for more information on Gregg Araki's film _Nowhere_, which they're showing.

But of course you can't just google "nowhere", so I typed in "nowhere 1997". And then paused for several moments.

Is this anything? Who even knows.

At day 2 of Mass Indie Film fest. Just saw a great indie Feature called Astral Plane Drifter. Here I an with Star and Exec Producer Mike Caravella. Support Indie Film! #scriptchat

I’m personally always like some kinda name roll in the final product, that way my support is kind of immortalized. I just supported an indie film at a level where I got that. I don’t like things that cause heavy burdens on the creator (because too am a creator).

Being an indie filmmaker is so weird sometimes. As I'm writing, I am constantly fighting between what I really want to be in the film and what I think could reasonably be produced by me with no money within the next few years.

The reason you missed it until now— NO ONE in the indie film world wanted this movie. We had to fight like hell to get even a small release, I think small-time film industry people saw the first 5 minutes and took it as a personal insult or something. Thanks for watching and sharing!

Screenshot from the beginning of *Tango*, wherein the child has climbed through the open window of the apartment to retrieve his ball. The child and a package on the shelf stand out eerily, in sharpness and shadow, from the dull background, perhaps common in turn-of-the-century animation, but uncommon and thus unsettling in a live-action medium. Same with the seemingly-watercolor view of a tree branch and *nothingness* out the window. The shadows on the animation draw our eyes to the shadows under the shelf, the baby pram, the far for, and *the wall* behind that door. Looking away reminds us of the smallness and perhaps plainness of the room where so much of life takes place for these people, a main theme of the film as they "tango" around each other. The mattress is speckled with dust, the wallpaper repeats hypnotically but unevenly as will the dance to come, and the area feels a little cramped, even with its multiple entrance and exits, and even without a crowd of people. None of that is to say it doesn't seem like a lovely place to live, to just exist, while you go through your dance.

The board and cards for the game *Bus Depot Diner*, taken from the website "Family Pastime Co-operative Games," which is selling it for $12 USD at time of writing. The photo has been edited not only to cut out the box, to enlarge the board and cards, but also to undo the oversaturation and harsh light added by the photographer in an attempt to keep this game from radiating the dark, lonely, emptiness of working a diner in the middle of a desert, at the mercy of the demanding strangers with large faces and exaggerated forms. There's grit, there's grime, and ultimately, there's no threat. Maybe these people have something going on in their own lives, but it won't touch *you*. The game may feel jarring, the environment uncomfortable, and the people crawling with "stranger danger," but at the end of the day, in this eternally ending day, they're just humans, with their own stories, their own personalities, and their own places to be after they've passed through your shelter. Just, keep up with demands. Truth be told, I didn't play this as a kid. I think I might have gotten my hands on it too early and had a hard time understanding the instructions as written. But more than that, it scared me too much, visually, and I never did like games where you have to work in a restaurant and had to keep up with orders. But it's always held a special place in my heart, in my psyche, and on my shelf.

If you're craving more of the #NoI'mNotAHuman aesthetic, my I recommend the stop-motion short film *Tango* (1981) or the cooperative board game *Bus Depot Diner*?

Anyone with other suggestions, add them in!

Afraid for the future of the Hollywood studio system? Think the mega-merger between Skydance/Paramount and Warner Bros. means the end of the film industry? Reassure yourself by supporting indie filmmakers. We’re out here making movies for peanuts. Watch, like, and share. Save the art of filmmaking.

Every filmmaker knows the journey can be challenging.

If you had to choose … which part of filmmaking is the hardest?

· Development
· Pre-production
· Production
· Post-production
· Distribution

Every filmmaker knows the journey can be challenging.

If you had to choose … which part of filmmaking is the hardest?

· Development
· Pre-production
· Production
· Post-production
· Distribution

Happy Birthday Sean Baker, director of Tangerine.

Indie filmmakers! 🎥
How did you come up with the original idea for your film?

Calling ALL Film makers! 🎥
How did you come up with your original film idea?

Daniel Kaluuya in Queen and Slim. Can I ask you something?

I shall create life with my own hands. The musical film FRANKENSTEIN by Joe LoBianco is an adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic novel.

A very young Elliot Page in Juno. I love Elliot.

Talented kids in The Sound of Hope by Emanuele Michetti. In the heart of El Salvador, a trio of unlikely heroes combat gang involvement by launching a life-transforming classical music program, giving youths hope, one instrument at a time.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt in 500 Days of Summer. I think we should stop seeing each other. I loved the movie.

Mahershala Ali starred in Moonlight. At some point you have to decide for yourself who you want to be. You can't let anyone make that decision for you.

Happy Birthday to Mena Suvari, who
starred in Garden of Eden. Watch out, here comes the
pretty one!!

Chloë Grace Moretz starred in Let Me In: Are You a Vampire? I loved this movie.

Tom Hiddleston starred as Oakley in Unrelated. It was a great movie, I loved it.