by SAGindie | Jul 3, 2024 | Education, Event Coverage, Filmmaker Resources, indieBlog
So you made a film and want to screen it at festivals. How should you approach the application process? What festivals should you target? What do you do once you get to the festival? On June 18, 2024, HUSSLUP brought SAGindie Executive Director Darrien Michele Gipson...
by Colin McCormack | Jun 18, 2024 | Filmmaker Resources, indieBlog, Interviews
ERICA TREMBLAY was inspired early on by stories she was told by family members and her community from the Seneca-Cayuga Nation. Storytelling transitioned to amateur filmmaking and eventually a video production career in the advertising and corporate worlds. With...
by Colin McCormack | May 6, 2024 | Filmmaker Resources, indieBlog, Interviews
Self-taught filmmaker FRANCIS GALLUPPI has honed his skills making the most of remote locations, from a deserted highway (2019’s short High Desert Hell), to a cabin in the woods (2020’s short The Gemini Project), to — for his newest film, his feature...
by Colin McCormack | Apr 23, 2024 | Filmmaker Resources, indieBlog, Interviews
JOANNA ARNOW has shared her unique comedic voice through both the page and the screen. As a fiction writer and comic artist, Arnow’s work has appeared in Glimmer Train Press and Popula. She’s acted in films including Chained for Life and F***ed in the...
by Colin McCormack | Nov 21, 2023 | Filmmaker Resources, indieBlog, Interviews
When documentarian BILLY LUTHER wanted to move from unscripted to narrative filmmaking, he took inspiration from his coming-of-age as a Navajo, Hopi, and Laguna Pueblo child. Tied to those formative years was the distinct lack of Native American representation in film...