{"id":2289165,"date":"2026-02-19T14:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2289165"},"modified":"2026-02-19T14:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:48:13","slug":"director-carlos-lopez-estrada-to-launch-indie-institute-filmmaking-intensive-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/director-carlos-lopez-estrada-to-launch-indie-institute-filmmaking-intensive-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Director Carlos L\u00f3pez Estrada\u00a0to Launch Indie Institute Filmmaking Intensive (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm2788015\/\">Carlos L\u00f3pez Estrada<\/a>, who earned an Oscar nomination for directing Disney\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/title\/tt5109280\/\">Raya and the Last Dragon<\/a> animated feature, is set to launch Indie Institute, an accelerated indie filmmaking program.<\/p>\n<p>The subscription-based three-month virtual filmmaking intensive will be run under L\u00f3pez Estrada\u2019s filmmaker-run banner <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/company\/co1007748\/\">Antigravity Academy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe in the power of independent filmmaking and have built our mission around bringing access and resources to as many emerging filmmakers as possible. Real miracles happen when storytellers are given unconditional creative support and our Indie Institute represents our largest effort to bring that mission to our extraordinary community,\u201d L\u00f3pez Estrada said in a statement on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Indie Institute (launching March 22) will cost $35 per month, or a $99 up-front payment, and will offer mentorship and instruction in indie filmmaking from script development to a movie\u2019s release in a fast-changing industry landscape, according to the Antigravity Academy.<\/p>\n<p>The director\u2019s production&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source m.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos L\u00f3pez Estrada, who earned an Oscar nomination for directing Disney\u2019s Raya and the Last Dragon animated feature, is set to launch Indie Institute, an accelerated indie filmmaking program. The subscription-based three-month virtual filmmaking intensive will be run under L\u00f3pez Estrada\u2019s filmmaker-run banner Antigravity Academy. \u201cWe believe in the power of independent filmmaking and have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2289166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2289165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Director-Carlos-Lopez-Estrada-to-Launch-Indie-Institute-Filmmaking-Intensive-Exclusive.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2289165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2289167,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289165\/revisions\/2289167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2289166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}