In the first half of the second hour of "Connections with Evan Dawson" on 11/3/25, we talk with indie filmmakers with local ...

A New Voice in Independent Cinema From first-time filmmaker Olivia Nash comes Hi., a deeply moving independent feature that ...

Eight years after the iconic Sacramento arrival of Lady Bird, the independent film landscape continues to thrive, revealing a ...

Long before the "romantasy" genre blossomed into the money-printing industry it's become, and before fantasy cinema went mainstream, the cinema of the '80s still produced a number of classic fantasy ...

In her masterclass at the Dharamshala International Film Festival 2025, Kiran Rao dissected the indie film landscape in India.

Baahubali: The Epic’ by 'RRR' director S.S. Rajamouli draws crossover audience at the indie film box office as Variance Films ...

One of the most powerful dramas of the 2020s, Aftersun, featuring an Oscar-nominated performance by Paul Mescal, is now ...

Variance Films, the specialty distributor behind the long U.S. tail of S.S. Rajamouli ‘s Indian crossover sensation RRR, is out with the director’s . This is a 3-hour and 58-minute blended version of ...