When
IndieWire interviews filmmakers they consistently ask: What is your definition of independent film? Directors with work premiering this summer demonstrate the plethora of possible responses to such a question as well as the diversity of the independent filmmakers out there.
Patrick Creadon,
Wordplay“An independent film is a film that is made against all odds.”
Mat Whitecross,
The Road to Guantanamo “…If the term has any meaning, it must be to do with a method of filmmaking which is exempt from the usual pressures and influences associated with studio productions. But it's become such a broad catch-all expression, I'm not sure if it's that relevant anymore.”
Lian Lunson,
Leonard Cohen I’m Your Man“I think the concept of 'independent film' has changed dramatically with the introduction of the digital world. I mean I could get in a car with my camera and my laptop and drive across America and make a film single handedly now…”
Kyle Henry,
Room “…As a nation, we seem to be culturally stuck in a really bad groove of lying to ourselves (Iraq, non-stop commercialization, fundamentalist religion, reality TV, etc.) and I hope a majority of us break free from its grip soon...”
Josh Gilbert,
a/k/a Tommy Chong“My definition of independent film is making a film independent of traditional studio/Hollywood involvement in any and all aspects of the process, from conception through distribution… It's very very very difficult to be truly independent. And very lonely...”
Larry Clark,
Wassup Rockers “My films.”
# posted by Laura Davies @ 6/29/2006 01:03:00 PM
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Jeff Lipsky related to me a great working definition of an independent film (can't remember if it was his own formulation or one he quoted from someone else): An independent film is a film that doesn't have a release date when you start filming.
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posted by W @ 7/03/2006 12:16 PM
