How do you hang onto your values while everything around you is changing? Monica Sorelle’s touching and observant feature debut Mountains centers on a Haitian immigrant family living in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood trying to pursue their dreams, while gentrification […]

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Following a festival run last year and a trio of Independent Spirit Award nominations (including Best First Feature), Tomás Gómez Bustillo’s debut feature Chronicles of a Wandering Saint is finally arriving this June from Hope Runs High Film. The supernatural comedy […]

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The blue carpet rolled out on Saturday and many of the year’s best independent films were recognized at the 39th Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Barbara, California. A24’s Past Lives took home Best Feature just moments after its writer-director Celine […]

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One of the best indie gems to look out for this year is Argentinian writer-director Tomás Gómez Bustillo’s Chronicles of a Wandering Saint. This supernatural comedy premiered at SXSW 2023 where it won the Adam Yauch Hörnblowér Award, and has […]

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Writer-director Minhal Baig returns with a new coming-of-age tale set in her native Chicago. We Grown Now centers on the city’s Cabrini-Green housing district in 1992. It follows two young boys who are best friends and neighbors, played by first-time […]

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The 39th Film Independent Spirit Awards nominations have just been announced, crowning this year’s achievements in independent film. The ceremony will be held in a few months on February 24, 2024, in its usual tent in Santa Monica. The various […]

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One of the surprise nominees for Best Feature at the Independent Spirit Awards this year was writer-director Ellie Foumbi’s haunting feature debut, Our Father, The Devil. It had its world premiere at the 2021 Venice Film Festival where it was […]

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The 20th edition of the Oxford Film Festival ran from March 1 – 5 in Oxford, Mississippi and I was fortunate enough to attend as a juror for the first time ever. Talented, rising filmmakers from all around the world […]

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The blue carpet rolled out on Saturday and many of the year’s best independent films and TV series were recognized in Santa Barbara, California. Everything Everywhere All At Once swept the 38th Independent Spirit Awards as it took home seven […]

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As this year’s Sundance Film Festival concludes, a hit from last year’s festival is finally getting its release in less than a month. Jamie Dack’s feature-length debut Palm Trees and Power Lines won the U.S. Dramatic Directing Award at the […]

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