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Dear Damian,
Well, lets look at your quote, just in a different order...
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The opportunity for monetizable self-distribution on the Internet hasn’t come a moment too soon for indie filmmakers who are left with fewer options after the winnowing of leading specialized film distributors such as Miramax, Paramount Vantage, Warner Independent Pictures, Picturehouse, THINKfilm, and New Line,.
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And why have they closed ?
So what is the new way of selling feature films?
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YouTube’s new rentals service which launched by offering five Sundance films for $3.99 each, drew just over a thousand paying customers nationally – not enough to shift traditional film distribution paradigms or overshadow Steve Jobs – but this humble beginning masks the opportunity for YouTube and for today’s aspiring independent screenwriters, directors and producers
$3.99 x 1000 = $3,990 dollars enough to pay for the cameras used on the HURT LOCKER for 1 day.
Just need to add that GOOGLE will show people where they can download the film for free (making money on adds as it does)
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From now on, the Lee Daniels’ ("Precious") and Kathryn Bigelow’s ("The Hurt Locker") of tomorrow will be able to bypass traditional gatekeepers and monetize their hard work and creativity using only an HD camera, a fast laptop and a decent Internet connection.
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Fantasy. These films are low budget = still costing tens of millions of dollars, "The Hurt Locker" was shot by a professional cinematograph, with a FULL crew. this costs hundreds of thousand dollars a day. Not because the money is wasted , but the film has to be shot on location, with make up, special effects, hotels, meals etc...
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Indeed, the day when nearly everyone has made an independent film, in the same way that most people today have both an e-mail address and a Facebook page (and perhaps a blog and a Twitter account), may not be far off
The reveal the depth of ignorance about how films are made by the author.
The cost of oil paints in within the reach of millions of people - can everyone make a great painting ? Or does it take thousands of hours of practice?
All you have to do see the truth of what I say is to try and watch a selection of no budget films made that never even make it to DVD.
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