The leading magazine for independent film & tv production and distribution in North America tracking hundreds of indies.

Real indies share how they did it from coast to coast, including Canada, now available at virtually every newsstand and studio in the L.A. area and at most Barnes & Noble, Borders, Books-A-Million, Hastings, and more -- see below

----------------Iss #55 Highlights---------------

• Cover Story: Broken Lizard  -- Return to their Indie roots, by Dave Walker & Maureen Herzog.
  
• Widescreen Filmmakers -- An indie viewpoint, by Bob Fisher.
  
• Scheduling software to the rescue! Continuing series on scheduling and budgeting. Showbiz Budgeting this issue, by Robert Latham Brown.
• The Art of Floating Heads   -- And why they shouldn't float on your movie poster!, by Aaron Lee.
• The Fed is here to help Indies -- Tax incentives for productions decoded, by Attorney Hal "Corky" Kessler.
• Filmmaker's Journal -- Navigating the twists, turns and unmarked shortcuts on the road to distribution. by Daniel Millican
  [Note:Read the earlier installments starting in issue #38, or for the pdf of Part 1, click here].

FINAL FRAME -- Indie Outlets series:
City Lights  by Merle Bertrand.

EVENTS:

• Los Angeles Film Festival
• LAFF Finance Conference 
• YouTube Screening Room debut
• CineGear Expo

REEL LIFE Adventures:
True Tales of Making, Marketing & Distributing Independent Movies & TV:

• Leap of Faith
• Pawn'd
• Scramble!
• Where One Stands

Plus The Production Slate Listings, 140 indie projects and 15 pages, all with contact info, many with cast & crew calls !

Bonus web content
this issue:

Exclusive: "86" comes to life  – NALIP Producers Academy works wonders for one filmmaker's feature!

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