Independent filmmaking refers to the process of making a movie outside the mainstream film industry. It typically involves lower budgets, creative freedom, and the use of alternative distribution methods. Independent filmmakers often prioritize artistic expression and personal vision over commercial success.
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Often described as the father of
American independent filmmaking, the director has a feeling for American regional realities that is rare in American cinema.
This odd couple navigate the world of
independent filmmaking with many comic bumps in the road and setbacks, fueled by Tommy's complete belief in a project with continuity problems, artificial dialogue, and a crew on the verge of mutiny.
With his 1990 indie Slacker, he put Austin's
independent filmmaking scene on the map, introducing the American audiences to an eclectic cast of local burnouts and philosophers, but Dazed and Confused, his more mainstream coming - of - age comedy, is the movie that really captures the relaxed cool of the Lone Star State.
After Paramount cancelled The Last Temptation of Christ in 1983, the director realigned his attentions back to
independent filmmaking for After Hours, a screwball tale following a night in the life of Griffin Dunne's word processing protagonist.
Yes, I made my long - awaited (at least by me) DVD commentary debut on the Milestone's superb two - disc edition of Kent Mackenzie's The Exiles, a forgotten landmark of genuine American
independent filmmaking at its most personal and authentic.
«Safety Not Guaranteed» is an amalgamation of everything that's great
about independent filmmaking — from its hugely original script to its wonderful cast of characters — but the one thing that it does better than anything else is create a cinematic experience that's rich in both comedy and emotion.
At this time Welles invented his own unique method of low -
budget independent filmmaking that set the template, for better and worse, for most of his career thereafter.
Working independently in the Thai commercial film industry, he is active in promoting experimental and
independent filmmaking through his company Kick the Machine, founded in 1999.
On the other hand, Linklater founded the Austin Film Society in 1985 as a way to root
independent filmmaking into the city he's used as a background to so many of his films.
Together, the Institute and the annual Sundance Film Festival in Park City have, without doubt, put
independent filmmaking on the map.
The company's previous movie deals also include a series of films made by comedian Adam Sandler as well as
by independent filmmaking brothers Mark and Jay Duplass.
Then, Aisha talks to revered director Charles Burnett, who emerged from the period of groundbreaking
black independent filmmaking known as the L.A. Rebellion.
The Bergman films flopped both critically and commercially, though for the young critics of Cahiers du Cinema they were models of
personal independent filmmaking that would help spark the French New Wave.
Amazon is already doing business with all three entities — it's about to unveil «Wonderstruck» (Killer) and «The Only Living Boy in New York» (Bona Fide) at Cannes — and the news is yet another sign that the company will continue to finance high -
quality independent filmmaking from some of the most revered American directors out there.
After rattling through some news, he begrudgingly looks ahead to the new Hercules movie then tears apart
pretentious independent filmmaking with his take on American Blogger.
«Like many filmmakers, I started my adventures in
independent filmmaking writing charters into my screenplays in hopes that Michael Madsen would be in the cast,» said festival founder David Katz.
Anchored by a superb performance from Frank Langella, this is a film that combines the best of intimate stage drama with the best of personal, well -
crafted independent filmmaking; the result is something that works on multiple levels, and allows viewers both young and old and everywhere in between a looking - glass glimpse into the other's psyche.
As bosses go, Fessenden sounds like a dream, and it can't be any accident besides that he's been behind some of the most
vital independent filmmaking in any genre over the last decade.
(Should I need to recap, Smith ascended the indie scene in the early - Nineties starting with the New Jersey comedy Clerks, which he financed with credit cards and which
turned independent filmmaking, quoth George Washington director David Gordon Green, into «the Special Olympics.»
Though he's widely considered the father of
contemporary independent filmmaking, John Cassavetes isn't a particularly good role model for young independent filmmakers looking to make a name for the...
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This film is a must - see for serious fans of horror movies, as well as those who value the type of experimental filmmaking that
independent filmmaking seems to foster under the right conditions.
Blood Stripe Made with passion, integrity and skill and starring Kate Nowlin as a Marine sergeant returning home with PTSD, this is American
independent filmmaking at its most effective.
Morris Engel's Little Fugitive, a model for
independent filmmaking from John Cassavetes and Francois Truffaut to the modern American Indie scene, shows on Turner Classic Movies in a «Tribute to Morris Engel» this month.
I'd quibble with some of Crawford's critical insights, but all three of these tracks are worth listening to, as they offer broad insight into
American independent filmmaking of the period in general and Romero in particular.
With an artful aesthetic that will please fans of
ambitious independent filmmaking, this British drama struggles to match its lush imagery with an oddly simplistic script.