John Wilson, the thirty-eight-year-old filmmaker, was drinking iced coffee on his home turf of Ridgewood, Queens, one recent morning. He was in Rudy’s Bakery and Cafe, a venerable neighborhood joint, ...

Indie exhibition is in a difficult place: Audiences are hungry for independent cinema, but the economics for arthouse cinemas, let alone filmmakers and distributors, may be in as challenging a place ...