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Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? As part of our monthly IONCINEPHILE profile (read here), we ask the filmmaker the incredibly arduous task of identifying their top ten list of favorite films. Rashaad Ernesto Green (Gun Hill Road) was busy with Sundance and couldn't get to this portion of the IONCINEPHILE feature.

The Clash were an integral part of the original wave of British punk, and now the 1979 album that launched their popularity overseas will be made in to a feature film of the same name: London Calling. Jez Butterworth, whose writing credits include the recent Fair Game and wrote and directed Birthday Girl almost a decade back, will pen the screenplay with the help of original Clash members Mick Jones and Paul Simonon.

We started keeping tabs on The Girl Is In Trouble when we profiled indie producer Jen Gatien and subsequently when the film's helmer Julius Onah was named to Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces” list, yesterday Shadowandact.com showed off a batch of new stills and a synopsis of the feature proving this may well be in the final stages of post-production and potentially ready for the first major film fest of the season.

Christine Vachon might have been a pioneer for women working as independent film producers, but there are a good bunch that are joining the ranks. I'd be tempted to say that NYC-based producer Jen Gatien comes from the school of hard knocks, as she was the driving force behind a pair of films which weren't the easiest to bring to market in the Cannes selected Abel Ferrara's Chelsea on the Rocks and the controversial Sundance drama Hounddog.

Workshopped in the Sundance labs, written and directed by Tanya Hamilton, and announced as part of the U.S Dramatic Competition, formerly titled "Stringbean and Marcus", Night Catches Us is set in 1978 and focuses on the broken love affair between two former Black Panther members and is told through the eyes of an adolescent girl.