Independent and Experimental Film Production

Independent film production companies - dedicated to original and experimental films - not mainstream!  By the very nature of this page...expect constant change and updating of listings.
 

INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION COMPANIES

AJ Wedding:  Talented independent filmmaker that created the gripping short drama Causality.

AllDay Breakfast:  A Canadian Independent film company.

Atopia:  An independent film production, distribution and sales company based in Montreal, Canada. Since its inception in 2000, the company has produced and released a string of critically-acclaimed and award-winning feature films including Daniel Cross’ S.P.I.T.: Squeegee Punks In Traffic (2001), Federico Hidalgo’s A Silent Love (2004), Simon Sauve’s Jimmywork (2004), Sophie Deraspe’s Missing Victor Pellerin [Rechercher Victor Pellerin] (2006), Noel Mitrani’s On the Trail of Igor Rizzi [Sur la trace d’Igor Rizzi] (2006), The Short Life of José Antonio Gutierrez by Heidi Specogna and most recently, The District (2004) by Aron Gauder. Atopia acquires provocative and atypical film works from around the world for North American distribution via all media (theatrical, DVD, on-line and television).

Backyard Productions:  In the business of making films since 1993.

Bitter Films:  Academy Award nominated director Don Hertzfeldt's animated short films have collected 108 awards, four Grand Prizes, and a wonderful cult following. His films have been featured at the Cannes Film Festival, Sundance, MTV, IFC, Bravo, Comedy Central, and many other film festivals.

Broken Lens Productions:  A group of artists collaborating on films, live video mixing, music and visual arts available for download.

Crestfallen Productions:  UK independent short film production company, main website.

Charlie Productions:  Filmmakers based in Hertfordshire, UK. The website is full of information on their own  films, as well as useful pages on how to make your own films.

Coffee Films:  Established as an experimental short film collective playing with camcorders in 1996, Coffee Films incorporated in 2003 and within a year was recognised as one of Europe's most exciting young production companies.

David Collins:  Website for indie filmmaker David Collins (Blindsight).

Film Punk Films:  Is a small (but mighty) independent feature film production company that is driven by two hard-core lovers of the art of filmmaking, Greg & Jeanne Morgan. Coal Mine Canary Films literally started out of a bedroom in a typical, Joe-suburbia neighbourhood.

Cracked Open:  Arts collective founded on surrealist principles providing a film gallery and forum.

Crowfeather Films:  A zero-budget, guerilla-style video filmmaking group located in Little Rock, Arkansas. Crowfeather specialize in character-driven, genre films, both short and feature length. They have a preferred fondness for supernatural horror, mystery and noir, dramas with unsympathetic characters, and dark comedies. The goal is to make the best, most professional movies possible, within an extremely limited resource budget.

DJFilms Productions:  Is the production company of filmmaker DJ Hupp.  In addition to the films of DJ Hupp, DJFilms Productions has been involved with many other independent projects.

Elysian Pictures:  The founder of Elysian Pictures, and the writer/director/producer of “Scenario for Delirium” and “Open Letter”, Chris Armstrong has a passion for film, a love of story, and an acute sense of visual perfection.

FilmGrafix Productions:  François Miron began makings films in 1982, the body of his work consist of several short experimental films, all created using a powerful film image manipulation technique that he has mastered: optical printing, 13 years ago he received an MFA in filmmaking from The School of The Art Institute Of Chicago.

Foiled Productions:  A group of independent filmmakers based in the UK.  They began in 1995, when founder members Henry Burrows and Howell Parry got talking in the pub and decided that they wanted to make a movie.  Not just a 10-minute short, like everyone else at the time seemed to be making, but a full feature-length movie.  That idea eventually became Foiled, the cult classic "aliens vs students" B-movie set in Manchester.

Grassroots Films:  An independent film company located in Brooklyn, New York. Producing short films, music videos, and documentaries.

Internet Movie Script Database, The:  From the creators of one highly addictive website, come another - this time a database complete with full screenplays of hundreds of films.

Istockphoto:  Offers a royalty-free video clips, available in high definition at the click of a button.

La Mancha Independent Films:  A film production company based in and geared towards servicing Orange County as well as the surrounding Southern California area.  Their aim is to provide audio/visual services to film students and independent film makers alike, as their focus is the independent film industry and development of up and coming directors and artists.

LCA Productions:  Located in  Costa Rica, LCA offers Production & Production Services for TV Commercials and Documentaries in film (35mm-16mm), video (HD - Digital Betacam) & animated (2D - 3D); also Directors, Still Photography, equipment rental, location scouting and talent.

Many Rivers Film:  Is an independent film production company dedicated to making exceptional high-quality documentaries, dramas, and films.

Midnight Pictures:  Independent film-makers from Portadown, Northern Ireland.

Never Settle  Films:  An independent film company based in Texas.

Odd Duck Films:  A very independent film production company in Hot Springs, Arkansas. 

Peripheral Produce:  Peripheral Produce is an experimental film and video distribution label and provocateur of the annual PDX Film Festival.

Red Film:  A truly unique, Brighton based collective, dedicated to the production of quality and innovative short and feature films and the promotion of new talent within the industry. We are committed to an ethos of partnership which is based on our shared values and passion for exciting and inspiring cinematic experiences.

Shoot First:  The purpose of Shoot First is to bring together individuals and groups from throughout the world in order to push those over-paid actors out of the way to make way for those who deserve a spot. People who have the drive.

Signal Fire Films:  An independent film production company from the midwest, USA.  Signal Fire Films has begun production on a project titled "355", a feature-length drama set during the American Revolutionary War.

Stunt Kitty Films:  Welcome to the virtual studios of Stunt Kitty Films. Independent producers of amateur/no budget/micro-budget/ultra-low budget horror films and monster movies.

Tripeg Film Studios:  Located near downtown New Haven and Yale University, Tripeg is a great choice for day shoots or as a base of operation for an entire project.

TXL Films: The passion of TXL Films is to create beautiful, idea-driven films with broad marketability and appeal.

Unknown Productions:  An independent movie production with distribution from Cinematrix releasing, giving the world another entertainment choice.

UpStart Productions:  An organization of independent filmmakers in the Southern Ohio/Northern Kentucky area, seeks to facilitate its member's film & video projects, and promote independent filmmaking in general.

Wayside Entertainment:   A Burbank, CA-based production company producing quirky Indie films and episodic TV/video series.
 

NOTABLE EXPERIMENTAL FILMMAKERS

Abigail Child:  Since the 1970s, experimental filmmaker and poet (and lesbian) Abigail Child has been engaged in a kind of cultural archaeology. Unearthing found footage from such disparate sources as industrial films, vacation and home movies, porn loops, and snippets from forgotten B-movies, she recycles and updates approaches to cinema that have a freshness and sense of wonder that recall the movies’ silent days.

Abraham Ravett, The Films of:  Abraham Ravett was born in Poland in 1947, raised in Israel and emigrated to the U.S.A. in 1955. He holds a B.F.A. and M.F.A. in Filmmaking and Photography and has been an independent filmmaker for the past thirty years.

Alan Berliner:  Alan Berliner's uncanny ability to combine experimental cinema, artistic purpose, and popular appeal in compelling film essays has made him one of America's most acclaimed independent filmmakers.

Anna Biller Productions:  Anna Biller is an artist and filmmaker living in Los Angeles. Her films include the horror-western short "A Visit from the Incubus," the musical short "Three Examples of Myself as Queen," and "The Hypnotist," a period film drama written by Jared Sanford. 

Bill Brand:  Bill Brand's experimental films and videos have screened extensively since 1973 in the US and abroad in museums, festivals and independent film showcases.

Bobby Abate:  The web site for Bobby Abate -  a filmmaker based in New York City. In your visit, you can find information on his future and past projects, watch QuickTime clips, download stills, and perhaps even have a little bit of fun along the way.

Craig Baldwin:  His desire to liquidate the formal distinctions between "popular" and "fine" art, "public" and "private" imagery, and "political" and "aesthetic" categories through a proliferation of discursive modes expressed itself in several photo-essay, video, and Super 8mm projects previous to his first 16mm production, Wild Gunman (20 mins., 1978).

Ernie Gehr:  Ernie Gehr began making films in the regular 8mm format in the 1960s and has worked steadily since then, completing more than 24 films. A self-taught artist, Gehr has established himself as one of the true masters of film form, and his graceful sense of style and subtle, poetic sensibility have deeply affected the cinematic avant-garde.

Henry Hills' Experimental Films:  Henry Hills has made 22 short experimental films since 1975. His work is represented in various permanent collections. Films include "Money," "Little Lieutenant," "Kino Da!"

John Kneller:  Proclaimed as "Canada's best unknown experimental filmmaker" (one of Canada's best-known experimental filmmakers), John Kneller has quite a challenge ahead of him. How does he balance the demands of his new-found popularity with the necessities of his vision?

Kenneth Anger:  Anger grew up in Hollywood and started out as a child actor, but his interest in filmmaking was evident at an early age: he made his first film, "Who's Been Rocking My Dreamboat?", at age 9. Anger developed into one of the pioneers of the American underground film movement. His gritty, violent, often homosexual-themed films were too strong for American audiences of the time, and many of his productions were filmed in Europe, mainly France.

Leslie Alperin:   A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Leslie Alperin has been making films for the past ten years. Her work has been shown widely at festivals and film venues throughout the U.S. and Europe. She is a recipient of a Film Arts Foundation "Personal Works" Grant, and a Rhode Island State Council for the Arts Film/Video Fellowship.

Scott Stark:  Has produced more than 60 films and videos since 1980. Additionally, he has created a number of gallery and non-gallery installations using film and video, and elaborate photographic collages using large grids of images. Born and educated in the mid-west, he has always been interested in aggressively pushing his work beyond the threshold of traditional viewing expectations, challenging the audience to question its relationship to the cinematic process; yet he also tries to build into the work elements of humour and incongruity that allow the viewer an entryway into the work while maintaining a critical distance.

Stan Brakhage:  Brakhage was a pioneer experimental filmmaker; he did everything to his films, from scratching them, burning them, bleaching them, painting on them, and pasting things directly onto blank mylar film strip, to dazzling and often hypnotic effect....



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