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New York Stage and Film will welcome Mallom Liggon as the new Director of the Filmmakers’ Workshop. NYSAF is also announcing the 9 early-career film and TV writers who have been selected to participate in the 2022 Filmmakers Workshop.

Film Independent Have you ever had to, y’know, write something? Ugh—it’s the worst! Just sitting there, your eyes slowly being irradiated by the punishing white abyss of the blank page; the metronome of the steadily blinking cursor quietly mocking your own imperfect human heartbeat, rushing ahead now into frenzied palpitations as you struggle for Word One; cursing over and over again the pathetic machinery of the human body—these weak arms, these reedy fingers—and its utter unsuitabi...

Directors Close-Up: Stretching Budgets and Ambitions with the 2021 John Cassavetes Noms Of all the various Film Independent Spirit Award categories, the John Cassavetes Award is one of the most special, shining a bright light on creative teams making their films truly within an economy of means–specifically, with production budgets under $500,000. The award is given to the lead creative roles of the awarded film: writer, director and key producers to recognize the work it takes by a core tea...