It's that time of year again where many are trying to choose interesting and affordable Holiday gifts for their friends and family. I urge you to pay a visit to www.indiefilmkiosk.com As always, it is the video store where less is more. We offer a unique selection of foreign language films and great American independents as finished goods dvds. Yes, not a download but an actual living and breathing dvd.

Titles like Kim Ki Duk's disturbing BAD GUY and the edgy French romance WILD CAMP, are just two of the great films available. There's docs like AMERICAN CANNIBAL and WALL, great American indies like EL CAMINO, starring Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men) and comedies like the unforgettable WEST WITTERING AFFAIR and SLIPPERY SLOPE.

All of these dvds and many more are offered with the best prices on the internet. And if you spend more than $25.00 we throw in free shipping too. How can you go wrong?

Yes, film fans, we are back! it has not been an easy run but we have finally migrated Indiefilmchat.com to the newest operating software that our system was using. I could devote some space here to what I think would be a well deserved rant about the arrogance of software designers, but I won't.

Instead, let me just issue a plea for the next poor bastards who wake up one day and discover that their web software has been upgraded and there is no known interface to migrate established architecture and content to the new system.

Dear software people and the bosses who direct them; please think these things through a little better next time! There were just a few of us out here who kind of, sort of, depended on the old system for, well you know, business, pleasure, marketing, and fun. 

So, here we are, posting for the first time since God knows when. Fortunately the news feeds kept working. I have no idea why but am grateful. In our absence the world of independent film remained constant by changing on a weekly basis. Blockbuster filed. Video On Demand has expanded everywhere. Foreign language films are making a mini comeback, etc. We have a back log of articles, reviews, essays and fun stuff that will be going up over the next week so don't be a stranger.

In a distant future full of intelligent machines, the wealthy and powerful live their lives to the fullest, without limits, without restraint, and seemingly without end. But what happens if the artificial intelligence that makes this ìperfectî world possible wants to share in it? David is a former planetary cop who resigned in disgrace. He is a freelance clone hunter now, a glorified gun for hire. He and his junior partner, Rachel, are hired by Montserrat, a brutal Oligarch, to track down a murderous clone that threatens the stability of Montserratís private planet. The more David and Rachel delve into the case the more corruption and rot they discover, until they come face to face with their own darkest secrets and must decide which side they are on.

That's the synopsis of the new cult Sci-Fi Hit, CLONE HUNTER directed by Andrew Bellware.
IFC recently had chance to sit down and talk with Andrew about his latest directorial effort...


IFC: Clone Hunter is the fifth science fiction film produced by your company, Pandora Machine. How did you ever resist the urge to make a fine piece of navel gazing mumblecore and do such a mainstream genre film instead?

Andrew Bellware: We resisted by the fact that with as little money as there is in genre films, thereís even less in art-house pictures. Ha!

Truthfully, thereís more artistic freedom in making a good ìgenreî picture -- I mean as long as you have the appropriate amount of spaceships you can basically make any kind of picture you want. Really, nobody makes as strongly political pictures as George Romero. His movies are subversive, man! The zombie proletariat rising up against the bourgeoisie? Youíd never be able to do that in an art-house flick.

Besides that -- my first two pictures were a Hamlet we shot on a toy Pixelvision camera and a movie based on John Miltonís Paradise Lost. Nobody but nobody can sit through either of those movies. If Iím going to do an art-house film itís going to be a day in the life of my cat. Itíll be mostly about sleeping.

IFC: I have to ask you about your company logo sequence with the naked woman at the beginning of the film. Who came up with that one?

AB: You see, itís Pandora -- the mythological character who opens the box which contains all human misery -- but in our world when she reaches into the box she finds a laser gun and blows you away with it. Right? Get it? OK, yeah, that was my idea. It amused me at the time. Heck, it still amuses me.

Clonehunter Trailer from Ralph Boswell on Vimeo.