Checking In with Festival Director, Deirdre Evans-Pritchard

0 Comments

Last week, we closed our call for submissions for the 2014 DC Independent Film Festival. We’ve received an incredible response of over 1,000 films from the international film community. Our staff has worked hard to…

Guest blog post from 2013 Best Feature Winner, JD Beales

0 Comments

This week we are excited to be joined by one of our former festival winners for a guest blog post. JD Beales is a Metro area-based filmmaker and executive producer of last year’s Best Feature…

How news does travel – Les Blank in DC

0 Comments

Seems that Washington DC is just awakening to the fact that the great documentary filmmaker is in the nation's capital this week. Les Blank: Living in Film on Thursday night was followed by a screening…

Eating your shoe

0 Comments

Les Blank, guest of honor a this year's DC Independent Film Festival is not too concerned about how long a film is.  While television has encouraged films to fit into an exact programming format, independent…