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Here at Film Independent, we like our creative visions bold. We like our thinking outside-the-box. We like our filmmakers loud. That’s why we made six of them Amplifiers.

Film Independent is proud to announce and welcome the 2025 Amplifier Fellows. This cohort six of Black or African American filmmakers working as writers, directors and/or producers will each be given an unrestricted grant of $30,000, with the support of Netflix’s Fund for Creative Equity.

On top of the grants, the Amplifier Fellowship will include a twelve-month program where Fellows will receive personalized support to propel their selected projects and careers both creatively and strategically as well as customized mentorship pairings with Industry Advisors as well as a Film Independent board member.

Each Fellow will also receive professional coaching in partnership with Renee Freedman & Co, and financial and business advisement in partnership with The Jill James.

Past Amplifier Fellows include Contessa Gayles,...

The fourth annual Amplifier Fellowship from Film Independent has unveiled six Fellows receiving $180,000 in cash grants for independent film and TV series.

IndieWire exclusively announces all six, and among them is “All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt” writer/director Raven Jackson for the fiction series “Scar Tissue.” Jackson made her narrative directorial debut with the 2023 Sundance feature “All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt”; the film went on to be nominated for a Film Independent Spirit Award (for Best First Feature) and a Gotham Award (for Breakthrough Director) with distribution from A24.

“Reservation Dogs” writer/actor Chad Charlie; “Victim/Suspect” and “The Fire That Took Her” producer Tracy Jarrett; and J.M. Harper, who edited the Emmy-nominated Netflix docuseries “Jeen-Yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy,” are additionally among the Amplifier Fellowship grant recipients. Berlinale filmmaker Skinner Myers (“Before You Fade Away Into Nothing”) and Doc NYC “40 Under 40” participant producer Jameka Autry received grants as well.

For horror fans, the autumnal season is the time of year when we all get to be the belle of the ball. For a few weeks each year, our expertise in all things creepy and spooky is valued above all other film fanatics, and we're often tasked with providing as many film recommendations as possible for casual horror fans to cram into a month or two of viewing. Sure, there's bound to be requests for "the scariest movie ever," but as new crops of monster kids grow into their own year after year, there's an evergreen need for horror movies that adults can watch with their little ones.

Family-friendly horror movies are a great way to inaugurate younger viewers to one of the most prolific subgenres in all of cinema, as well as offer a safe outlet to begin processing negative emotions like fear, grief, sadness, and anxiety. It's a...

Hello, everyone! This week, we only have a handful of horror and genre titles headed to Blu-ray and DVD, but several of these releases are sure to get you into the holiday spirit, including Scream Factory’s 4K release of Mike Dougherty’s Krampus: The Naughty Cut. Rlje Films is unleashing Creepshow: Season 2 on both Blu-ray and DVD (with the Creepshow Holiday Special included), and if you’re still looking to enhance your holiday spirit even more, there’s always the indie Christmas-themed anthology 13 Slays Till X-Mas coming to Blu-ray, too.

Other home media releases for December 7th include Werewolves Within (one of this writer’s favorite movies of 2021), Blue Monkey, and Broadcast Signal Intrusion.

13 Slays Till X-Mas

On December 24th, five seemingly random men are invited to a dive bar by a mysterious e-mail. They decide to pass the time by resurrecting the old tradition of telling scary stories on Christmas Eve.

We're already hooked on CBS's Young Rock, a sitcom based on Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's adolescence. Johnson's show is a hilarious look at his eccentric upbringing, and his experiences growing up with his wrestling icon dad Rocky Johnson (plus all his famous wrestling pals). It's clear from watching the premiere that Rocky served as a major inspiration for Dwayne, both as a father and an athlete. While Rocky sadly passed away in 2020, there's still so much to learn about the man, the myth, and the legend who helped raise The Rock.

Rocky Johnson, otherwise known as Soul Man, was a Canadian-American WWE hall-of-famer on the scene in the 1980s. He teamed up with fellow wrestler Tony Atlas to form "The Soul Patrol," together becoming the first African-American World Tag Team Champions in WWE history. He's famous to this day as being "the king of the drop-kick."

Born Wayde Douglas Bowles,...

Halloween is nearly upon us, and that means you’re probably looking for some spooky movies and shows to watch to get you in the spirit of the holiday. Of course, it’s easy to find a good slasher flick or psychological horror on various services, but trying to locate such content that’s family-friendly can sometimes be tough. The good news is, though, that you don’t have to look very far at all if you’re a Disney Plus subscriber, as the platform is filled to the brim with plenty of great Halloween stuff for viewers of all ages.

One option you’re certain to be happy to hear about is the 1993 comedy horror Hocus Pocus, which ranks as one of the most timeless Halloween classics of all time – proven further by its huge haul during its theatrical rerelease this year. This tale of a trio of evil...

Disney+ invites fans and families to celebrate its first ever Disney+ Hallowstream whenever and wherever they want with a spellbinding collection of some of the most popular Halloween movies, specials, and episodes of all time. With beloved holiday traditions like Hocus Pocus, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Halloweentown, the best Disney Channel and Disney Junior Halloween episodes, and 30 episodes of The Simpsons iconic Treehouse of Horror franchise, Disney+ is the ultimate streaming destination for family frights and wicked delights for all ages.

Disney+ subscribers can stream the new Halloween collection of movies, shorts, specials and themed episodes.

Disney+ Halloween Movies

• Don't Look Under the Bed• Frankenweenie (2012)• Girl vs Monster• Halloweentown• Halloweentown High• Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge• Haunted Mansion• Hocus Pocus• Mom's Got A Date With A Vampire• Mr. Boogedy• Phantom of the Megaplex• Return to Halloweentown• The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad• The Ghost of Buxley Hall• The Nightmare Before Christmas...

Post-Ghostbusters but pre-Julie and the Phantoms, Disney Channel was busy dishing out tricks and treats with Halloween movies like Under Wraps, Halloweentown, and Mom's Got a Date With a Vampire. But, almost 20 years since its release date, one movie I can't shake from the back of my mind is The Scream Team, mainly because the plot is surprisingly terrifying. I used to have nightmares about this movie every October as a kid, so it only felt natural that I should check it out again as an adult, and let me tell ya, those nightmares were 100 percent justified.

Zachariah Kull, the villain of the film, was an inventor in the 1800s who burned down his cabin with his wife still inside. While it's later proven that the fire was an accident sparked by a faulty invention he created using natural gas, Zachariah is seen as a criminal for centuries because of town lore.

It’s a relatively contained secret that beneath the magic and the pixie dust, Disney has produced a whole lot of freaky stuff. And now that the House of Mouse has officially launched its expansive streaming site, Disney Plus, a large collection of that spooky material is available to cower over wherever and whenever you want!

Of course, this isn’t to say that there are blood fests on there – the company couldn’t even summon up the courage to include the R-rated Deadpool and Logan films – but rather point out that some of the studio’s most iconic features incorporate incredibly frightening scenes.

While the Mouse House has evidently filtered some of its more controversial content for Disney Plus – though they seem to have completely missed Dumbo‘s iconically problematic crows – Bloody Disgusting was still able to conjure up a video of some of the freakiest stuff to explore on the streaming service.

Scared Famous continues to terrorize its reality show contestants with a devilish demonic challenge and dials up the scare factor with those creepy ghostly twins again. The Scream Team Challenge this week is The Scare Witch Project and it’s worth another $10,000 towards their favorite charity. Redman tells them this game is all about mirroring and awareness. He asks them all to step inside a circle laid out in stones, with a pentagram and various witchcraft items strewn across it. They have to go into the creepy zone and try to remember as much as they can about the items...read more...

We have a confession to make: we still watch the Disney Channel during the month of October for it's Monstober marathon. They play all the best original Halloween movies! That makes it not embarrassing, right?! These are the not-so scary Halloween movies we grew up on and watching them is a yearly tradition, because Halloween wouldn't be complete without some vintage TV movie fun! And by vintage, we mean 17 years ago.  We have done all the work for you and ranked the Disney Original Halloween Movies. Don't be scared! See if your favorite was ranked the best and get ready to get your nostalgia on... 11. The Scream Team The Scream Team is the worst. If you forgot about it...

Los Angeles, May 10: Rapper Drake complimented actress Kat Dennings on Twitter, but it didn't go well with his fans.

The fans targetted "The Scream Team" actress on the social-networking site, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

Talking about the incident, the 26-year-old said: "Drake was super nice and said something on Twitter about me, but I didn't realise that happened."

"When I got home, I had, like, 50,000 new followers on Twitter and then I looked and they were like, 'F**k you, Kat Dennings!' and 'You can't take Drake from me, he's mine.' I'm like, 'I'm literally not trying to take Drake from you.' And then I realised what.

How seriously do you think I take Halloween? Well, I’m fairly frickin’ anal retentive anyway, so I need to book my viewing in advance. I mean I’ll deviate from my itinerary, but I at least need a plan. I can’t be the only one out there with a stick up his ass. So this October/Halloween Season I figured we needed a little guidance. There’s too many damn channels on the cable box, no horror hosts and shit for advertising. So let me be your TV Guide… Keeper.

We won’t touch on everything and I’m sure new programming will come up as October gets itself moving. I’ll throw an update out there from time to time if a special is airing or a new programming line up is discovered, uncovered, revealed or undead. Yes, this is for cable or dish. Network TV will...

SoapNet has greenlighted a new original series to begin in June. Back-to-back half-hour episodes of Soapography, which profiles leading soap opera actors, will begin running weekends between 6-7 p.m. The Walt Disney Co.-owned channel has yet to decide how many episodes will be ordered or which production company will produce them. Susan Lucci, Deidre Hall, Rebecca Budig and Peter Bergman are among the soap stars expected to get Soapography treatment. SoapNet has launched only two original series in its four-year history: the Emmy-nominated talk show Soap Talk and Soap Center, which no longer produces new episodes. The channel, which is in 37 million homes, subsists largely on rebroadcasts of ABC daytime programming. Sister cable network Disney Channel has greenlighted a third installment to its original movie franchise Halloweentown to air in the fall. Debbie Reynolds, Kimberly J. Brown, Joey Zimmerman and Judith Hoag will return for Halloweentown 3, which goes into production next week. Writer Dan Berendsen (The Scream Team) and director Mark Dippe (Pixel Perfect) are working on Halloweentown 3. The film will be executive produced by Sheri Singer (Right on Track).

NEW YORK -- The Disney Channel has completed production on Eddie's Million Dollar Cook-Off, an original film with Oscar-winning actress Marlee Matlin on board as executive producer. Set to air on the cable network in the summer, Cook-off chronicles the plight of a 14-year-old baseball star who is torn between his athletic career and his love for cooking. Taylor Ball (Still Standing) plays Eddie, and the film features a cameo by celebrity chef Bobby Flay (Food Nation), making his cinematic debut. He plays himself. Matlin is executive producing Cook-off with Jack Jason, who came up with the story with Rick Bitzelberger and Dan Berendsen (The Scream Team). The teleplay was written by Berendsen. A joint effort from the Disney Channel and Solo One Prods., Cook-off is directed by Paul Hoen (Even Stevens).