This is something I’ve been trying to put into words for a while. How and why movies are being made today are starting to radically change, but putting it into a block of text for all to read and understand has been very difficult.
Ted Hope’s Keynote for the Filmmaker’s Forum brilliantly illustrates where we’re heading and the challenges that face us as filmmakers.
When someone says “Indie is dead”, they are talking about the state of the Indie Film Business, as opposed to what are actually the films themselves. They can say “The sky is falling” because for the last fifteen years, the existing power base in the film industry has focused on films fit for the exisiting business model, as opposed to ever truly concentrating on creating a business model for the films that filmmakers want to make.
To read all of Mr. Hope’s excellent keynote, cilck here.
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