Prior to starting this blog I was asked by somebody "What is it that makes a film an 'Indie'?" (and yes they really did make quotation marks with their fingers as they said the word Indie, as if it was some sort of mythical creature that could never actually exist.) I told him there were two answers: a long one and a shorter one.
The shorter answer is simple. An Independent film is any film that receives less than 50% of its funding from any of the Major Movie Studios. Too easy? Of course it is.
The long answer is one that begins in the early days of American Filmmaking concerning the likes of Thomas Edison and continues right up to the present, growing ever more confusing with the successful emergence of new independent film studios and festivals as well as digital filmmaking. If you would like to learn more about this topic, I encourage you to check out this page.
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