New York International Independent Film and Video Festival: The Only Place Left for Real Independent Filmmakers to Go

dozen films in the festival since 2001 and has made many valuable contacts to move his career forward because of the festival. Jade is a working actor on TV shows and major motion pictures and his independent films The Gleam and Searching for Bobby D have received distribution and are available in Hollywood Video, Netflix and Blockbuster. Each year success stories from alumni from the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival emerge. For example, Australian Director Greg McLean’s first film ICQ screened at the 2001 festival where it won Best Director. He then moved on to write and direct the international box office hit Wolf Creek. Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber’s (The Butterfly Effect) first feature film Blunt won an award for Best Comedy at the 1998 New York International Independent Film and Video Festival. More recently, New York director Lana