“The film world – be it in content, creation, business or audience – has changed significantly over the last twenty years and we all must change with it…It’s time that the film industry looked not just to Hollywood but instead to the Bay Area and Silicon Valley, and San Francisco Film Society is a [...]

Telluride Film Festival Co-Director Gary Meyer recently contributed the following post to the Art House Convergence Google Group. It is reprinted here with his permission. When I read reports about successes various exhibitors are having with MARGARET it reminds and inspires me that we should be careful not to write off films based on their [...]

With great sadness, we acknowledge the passing of our legendary colleague Bingham Ray, an institution in the independent film world. Bingham’s foundational contributions to our community played an indelible role in making independent film what it is today. All of us at the Art House Convergence offer our support and deepest condolences family. His legacy [...]

Yesterday’s Variety featured a terrific overview of the 3D debate currently facing art house cinemas. While post-Avatar offerings such as Clash of the Titans and Piranha 3D may not have had us racing to convert our screens, new titles by the likes of Werner Herzog (Cave of Forgotten Dreams), Martin Scorsese (Hugo), and Wim Wenders [...]

Yesterday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (a.k.a. AMPAS, but more commonly known as the folks who award those little gold statuettes at the end of February) announced proposed new rules for documentary features to qualify for the Oscars. Among other things, a documentary will have to be reviewed in The New York [...]

In the midst of awards season, when there is an embarrassment of cinematic riches choose from, it’s easy to lose sight of the oft-dismal selection of films that Hollywood spews out in the first months of the year. If vampires, superheroes, and cartoons are not exactly your cup of tea, then fear not – your [...]

Film scholar extraordinaire David Bordwell has been busily blogging about the challenges facing indie cinemas (including the Goetz Theatre of Monroe, Wisconsin; pictured above) and film festivals as they convert to digital formats. We expect digital projection to be hot topic at this year’s Convergence, and look forward to a lively discussion at our two-part [...]

The Sundance Institute has announced the films from the 2012 Sundance Film Festival that will screen in independent theaters in nine different cities around the country. The screenings are part of Sundance Film Festival USA, a program designed to bring the Festival experience to film-loving audiences nationwide. Full Release with Titles: Sundance Institute announced today [...]