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Article: Movies on the cheap.(Los Angeles, CA, independent filmmakers exploit advantages of new technologies)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
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- April 19, 1999
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DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES BRING NEW OPPORTUNITIES TO INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS
It'S been a longstanding tradition for independent filmmakers to beg, borrow and max out credit cards in order to finance their artistic endeavors. Then it can be similarly difficult to land a movie distribution deal.
This traumatic experience may be coming to an end. As the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival's sold-out New Media forum demonstrated last week, movies are going digital. And that means they will become cheaper to produce - which could bring about a sea change in the economics of the independent film industry.
"Digital production is democratizing and ...