Film Independent has announced the three winners of its 2017 Spirit Awards filmmaker grants. The organization, which produces the Spirit Awards and the LA Film Festival, named the winners today during its annual Spirit Awards Nominee Brunch, which was held at BOA Steakhouse in West Hollywood. The event was hosted by…

Specialty newcomers had mostly decent starts in the first weekend of June. FilmRise's doc The Witness technically had the weekend's highest overall per theater average in its exclusive engagement, grossing $15K, while Oscilloscope's feature The Fits, also in a single location, bowed with $11,300. Two foreign entries…

EXCLUSIVE: Royalty Hightower, the 10-year-old who made her feature film debut as a young boxer who decides to join a dance team in the Sundance Film Festival pic The Fits, has signed with Paradigm in a competitive situation. Hightower plays 11-year-old tomboy Toni in The Fits, the debut feature from director Anna Rose…

Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired U.S. rights to The Fits, the debut feature from director Anna Rose Holmer It world premiered at the Venice Film Festival and is making its North American premiere at the Sundance Film Festival’s NEXT section. The fest opens Thursday. Oscilloscope will release the film in summer…