Independent Film Critics of America

29/01/2024

The Independent Film Critics of America is very excited to welcome award-winning Director, writer, and playwright Shem Bitterman as our incoming Filmmaker in Residence for 2024. Shem Bitterman is an alumnus of Julliard, where he studied acting, and of the University of Iowa where he earned an MFA in Dramatic Writing in 1985.

Shem has written screenplays for various studios including for Warner Brothers, Disney, Dreamworks, and many others, his plays have been developed at Sundance, Steppenwolf, Midwest Playlabs, The Taper’s New Works Festival, and many other venues and locations. Shem Bitterman has lectured on the entertainment field and has taught screenwriting, playwriting, and acting everywhere from California to Beijing!

His most recent work is the film Distant Tales, filmed entirely during the pandemic which explores themes of mental health, social justice, and radicalization.

Welcome Shem!

23/01/2024

Each year the members of the Independent Film Critics of America gather to vote for the IFCA Critic of the Year.

We are proud to announce that Aaron White has been selected as the 2024 IFCA Critic of the Year!

Aaron White is a Tomato Approved Film Critic, and the host of the popular podcast "Feelin Film" and a member of the Seattle Film Critics Society.

Congratulations Aaron!

Check out his work below!
indiecriticsofamerica.org/members/aaron-white/

10/06/2023

Check out this mini-review for FLASH, but IFCA member David Stuart Abrams

Full social review in the comments!

03/03/2023

The Indie Film Critics of America is so proud to unveil the WINNERS of the 2023 IFCA Awards. Our critics voted and below are the films, performances, and technical filmmaking they believe stood as the best that Hollywood had to offer in 2022.

Congratulations to the winners!

23/01/2023

The Indie Film Critics of America is so proud to unveil our first-ever nominations for the IFCA Awards. Our critics voted and below are the films, performances, and technical filmmaking they believe stood as the best that Hollywood had to offer in 2022.

Who will rise to the top? Stay turned as we announce the IFCA Award Winners in February!

05/01/2023

IFCA would like to congratulate Board Member JD Duran for receiving Rotten Tomatoes certification. Congrats JD!

02/12/2022

ANNOUNCEMENT: I am very excited to announce that The Indie Critics of America will be accepting critics who post exclusively to the Letterboxd App into the association as members. Please read the full release below.
"The Indie Critics of America" recognizes that Letterboxd is becoming a legitimate forum for film reviewing and critique, we also recognize that many film critics are honing their craft and “Getting started” on this platform. As such the IFCA does not want to exclude these critics from membership but give them a path to begin working towards FULL voting membership in the IFCA and mentorship to move into publishing their film reviews. Overall the IFCA wants to help these burgeoning critics in networking and learning about the film critic world.
Thus the Board of directors is very excited to offer a “Letterboxd Tier” of membership, this tier has been created for those new critics who are demonstrating talent and vision in their Letterboxd reviews and who have completed Letterboxd reviews based on the following criteria.
- Have a minimum of 50 Letterboxd reviews for film or TV in the last year
- Each review must be a minimum of 200-300 words
- Reviews should show an understanding and study of filmmaking and demonstrate critical breakdowns of films themes
- Reviews should be clean and as free of typos and errors as possible
If you are interested in applying, please click the link in the comments below!

14/09/2022

Please welcome our newest member JD Duran. JD is the host of the InSession Film Podcast and co-founder of InSession Film. JD is also a member of the Critics Choice Association and Online Film Critics Association.

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16/06/2022

Check out the editorial below where the IFCA's own Board Member Don Shanahan is mentioned twice! Congrats Don

Critics say Pixar's Toy Story-adjacent space romp is gorgeous and fun, even if it doesn't reach the studio's greatest heights, and a scene-stealing Sox the cat will be everyone's new favorite sidekick.

11/04/2022