Tag Archive for the term: film

Last night I watched the documentary, Chez Schwartz (2007). It’s a film by Garry Beitel, the professor from my Canadian Documentary class at McGill, and a Montreal-based filmmaker who has worked on numerous independent documentaries (often for TeleQuebec) that narrow in on particular communities and individuals. Chez Schwartz is a film about the 75 year-old […]

July 4 - 7: The Gits Movie, NY and a special BUST event dedicated to the amazing Mia Zapata, who also, I think, just wanted to play…:
The Gits Movie is a rousing and heartbreaking story of Seattle band The Gits, whose promising start was cut short by the tragic murder of singer Mia Zapata. When […]

Our internet buddies over in Newfoundland who build CELTX, the pre-production theatre and film management software (read: scriptwriting, plus lots lots more), have just released Celtx 1.0 !!!
We worked with Celtx for the Assembly international art relays last year and they’re lovely, hardworking, and helpful folk. So check out the latest version of their software. […]

Here is the second installment of photos by Marilis Cardinal from the most recent Indyish Monthly Mess - the Drama Mess.

Aaand here is the first round of Drama Mess photos, if you’re lookin.

Over a year ago a documentary filmmaker named Jagdish Kulkarni based in Nashik India contacted us here at Indyish. Despite some wild email delays and other technical long-distance difficulties we became friends and he joined Indyish, and sent me 2 of his films to preview. We are very different, but alike in the desire to […]

Announcing: Drama Mess!
April 26th, 2008 8PM
OFF Interarts (5145 Saint-Laurent)
Pay What You Can
Indyish.com invites you to unleash your inner drama queen!
This month, Indyish.com will snatch Dramatics from the safety of theatre and set it loose upon you at the Indyish Monthly Mess. The event features an interdisciplinary lineup of performers, all theatrical in their art forms.
Our […]

This Wednesday we make our triumphant(?) return to Reggie’s in Concordia’s Hall building. Upwards of 35 aspiring filmmakers have banded together into 7 groups to bring you 5 minute shorts written, filmed, and edited within the space of a couple of days. Admission is free.
Wednesday, March 26th, 8pm, Reggies.

FROM HERE TO AWESOME is a discovery and distribution festival that might
be the perfect system to get your film blasted to audiences in theaters,
living rooms, online and via mobile phones.
I found out about this film festival through our new friends at Concordia University Television. It seems like a great one for getting work out there […]

Aimée van Drimmelen

Aimée van Drimmelen

Well, some serious ‘grats are in order for Reel Dames 2008 organizers Aimée van Drimmelen and Hosay Breau; this year featured an array of accesible, oft enchanting, oft wunder-ful films from a plethora of walks and visions. And an additional ‘grats to Hosay who missed the evening due to the arrival […]

There’s a buzz goin’ on about the Reel Dames Film Festival. A plethora of my friends have found ourselves pleasantly confounded by how we all independently decided this was what we were doing Wednesday night without consulting each other. TG great minds think alike. Yeehaw, as they say.
Our own Martin Reisch, aka *safe solvent, will […]