How Filmmakers Impacted Tribeca's Lineup and Georgia State Law—Without Making a Film [PODCAST]

This episode of Indie Film Weekly explores how filmmakers and film companies have confronted recent controversies headlining mainstream news—and made real change from festival programming to senate floors—before they even picked up a camera.

This past week, Robert DeNiro pulled the anti-vaccination film Vaxxed: from Cover-Up to Catastrophe from Tribeca Film Festival's lineup, and Republican Governor Nathan Deal announced that he would veto Georgia's anti-gay HB-757 bill, both after protestations from filmmakers and industry folk. We get into both of these decisions from a filmmaker point-of-view, as well as chatting about the release of the consumer-facing virtual reality headset from Oculus, new filmmaking tools, and upcoming opportunity deadlines and indie film releases that you won't want to miss while you're busy making films.

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