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American New Wave 25: Anthony Burns
Indie filmmaker Anthony Burns officially became a part of the Indiewood landscape earlier this year when he preemed his directorial debut Skateland in Park City, but Burns who has a background in writing learned the ropes by cutting his teeth in the Hollywood system serving as assistant to the executive producer on CW’s Hidden Palms and CBS’s pilot Law Dogs.
American New Wave 25: Erin Benach
Having been in the biz for about half a decade now, you'd think by Brooklyn based Costume Designer Erin Benach's film credits that she got her start because she was an owner of a thrift store. Beginning as an assistant costume designer (sometimes uncredited) on contempo indie dramas such as The Baxter (2005), Laurie Collyer's Sherrybaby and Todd Field's Little Children, it is surely her couture work in Ryan Fleck's Half Nelson that gave Benach her first "big league" start.
First 2011 Sundance Title Announced is Kevin MacDonald’s ‘Life in a Day’
The trades are reporting that Macdonald (part documentarian and part feature filmmaker) is teaming with Ridley Scott and YouTube to create what is being dubbed "the first user-generated feature-length documentary."
IONCINEMA.com’s American New Wave 25
Post-Independence Day serves as a fitting launch date for IONCINEMA.com's "American New Wave 25". As something in the realms of a scouting report, what I want to do with this feature is highlight some of the new names in American Independent film who I think are going to be fixtures not only on this site, but also in the industry itself.
Strand Makes Sure that ‘Uncle Boonmee’ Has a Final Resting Place
Strand Releasing, the official North American distributor for all things Apichatpong Weerasethakul will indeed be releasing his latest, Cannes-winning film. The trades report that Marcus Hu's longstanding co. will distribute Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives in Spring of next year, but you can bet that the local premiere will occur at the Weerasethakul-friendly film festival in Toronto this September.
