Hope For Film

Hope For Film

Let’s admit it: we failed… massively.

When you look at “indie film”, can you come to any other conclusion?

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Ted Hope
Apr 09, 2025
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The last forty years of (so-called) independent film has led to a massive industry failure: films don’t sell or get distributed, filmmakers can’t build careers or even support themselves, institutional knowledge evaporates, and all the while certain voices, subjects, and styles are silenced, and the power coagulates in t…

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