Abstract

Long Live Indie Film

It is informed that independent films are at crossroads. After a decade of outstanding growth, the emergence of a new generation of film-makers and the maturation of an older one, the effective transformation of an industry and of an art form, the question of what independent film actually is and where it's headed is bound to stir discussion and debate. Throughout the past ten years, the remarkable success of independent film has been accompanied by a constant drumbeat thumping out the message that independent film is dead, or has become synonymous with studio output. Simply put, this isn't true. It is opined that there was never a golden age for independent films. The relative success of some low-budget films says more about their freshness and distinctiveness as feature releases than it does about an ideal past when independent film was more fully appreciated.