“Unleashed” – Avi’s new podcast

It’s good to be back to writing this Blog…it’s been way too long. Almost 8 years in fact. A lot has happened since the last time I wrote in this blog….many films produced and I even got to direct my first short film RED BALLOON and then my first feature A FAMILY SEDUCTION….

Emerging storytellers are the future of our industry. Together, we can help them realize their dreams Back in March, thanks to donations from two generous supporters, NSI launched a matching donor campaign to coincide with the start of training for NSI Totally Television and NSI IndigiDocs students. But then COVID-19 hit so we made the decision to pause our call-to-action due…

Author Bill Howard will script the adaptation, while Federgreen Entertainment’s Avi Federgreen and Lucky Dime Films’ Laura Tremblay are set to produce. Federgreen Entertainment and Lucky Dime Films have acquired the film rights to Bill Howard’s debut novel 10 Minutes from Home. Currently in development, the adaptation is being penned by Howard with Federgreen Entertainment’s…

Award winning Director Justin McConnell and award winning Producer Avi Federgreen sit down with Giles Alderson (The Dare) and Christian James (Fanged Up) at Frightfest HQ to talk making movies, the best way to get into a festival, get picked up for distribution, dealing with bad reviews and how they made their latest film the…

(EJNews) – Film producer Avi Federgreen enjoys Jewish themed films, particularly those made in Israel with Hebrew dialogue and English subtitles.  But they are tough to find. The Alberta born and Edmonton raised producer with over 20 years of experience in the film industry has decided to fix this problem by launching a new project,…

The film is an American production financed by Fox Searchlight Pictures, and its Oscar-nominated stars are British (Sally Hawkins) and American (Richard Jenkins, Octavia Spencer). But the bulk of the cast and crew is Canadian, so: good job, us. Back-patting aside, there’s a more interesting story. Over the last decade or so, Toronto has become…

Producer and distributor Avi Federgreen — whose Indiecan Entertainment just released its 100th feature, Monolith — settles in for a conversation about an unlikely inspiration: Some Kind of Wonderful, the John Hughes-scripted reversal of his own Pretty in Pink that locked Eric Stoltz, Lea Thompson and Mary Stuart Masterson in a classically ’80s love triangle….

Many of you have heard me speak on a number of occasions about the fact that we need to think about how we are making films.  The days of getting access to lots of government funding to assist us in financing our films are gone, the number of funders that we can access is at…