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If you're looking for an alternative to the Oscars, the Spirit Awards is your best ticket.

Celebrity presenters and performers enjoyed customized gift collections backstage at the 2008 Spirit Awards.

Film Independent honored Juno, The Savages, and More at the 2008 Spirit Awards

Justine Shapiro and BZ Goldberg film the lives of Palestinian and Israeli children who live within a few miles of one another and yet remain far apart in understanding.

Overture Films offers free download of the screenplay for the touching drama "The Visitor," starring Richard Jenkins.

"Funny Ha Ha" portrays realistic everyday characters struggling, and ultimately succeeding, to communicate.

These five films are among the best micro-budget indies ever made and great examples for aspiring filmmakers, who are financially burdened due to the struggling economy.

Below are the remaining five best films with a micro-budget. Each of these films has contributed immensely to the Indie universe, and in helping it to gain notoriety.

Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing, Michael Moore's Roger & Me, Gus Van Sant's Drugstore Cowboy, and Jim Jarmusch's Mystery Train, were all released in1989.

Quiet, subtle yet undeniably charming, Sweetland warms your heart in the most unexpected way.

Teachers can create academic games to review for upcoming high stakes tests by emulating the Olympics. It is great fun and great review.

When you are born into a brothel in Calcutta, your opportunities might be very limited. But when British filmmaker Zana Briski gives the kids cameras, everything changes.

Guitar Hero makes guitar legends of gamers but heavy metal boss Metallica takes center stage these days and not just because a Metallica concert is like heaven on earth.

In the last few decades, methods and control of food production, treatment of workers and animals, and emphasis on speed and profits have left the consumer at risk.

When an Iraqi journalist and his family are held captive by the U.S. Army, things are just beginning to go wrong. Yunis Katayer Abbas will soon learn what prison means.

Margaret Chase Smith was a major contributor to US political history. Her library is a researcher's dream, but also displays artifacts interesting to the average tourist.

Richard Wright's best-selling novel has influenced generations of African-American authors.

Tim Roth and Gary Oldman's comedic double act takes them on a bizarre trip through the story of Hamlet in one of the best British films ever made.

A brief history of the pioneering thrash metal band Anvil, profiled in Sacha Gervasi's recent documentary, Anvil! The Story of Anvil.

Lynn Redgrave has many awards and nominations to her credit having worked with film's finest leading men including The Bourne Ultimatum's Albert Finney.