The Internet Saves The Indie Filmmaker – Or Does It?

Posted on January 29, 2009 in Financing | 2 Comments

Marc Aramian looks at some the funding options that the internet is making available to the indie guerrilla filmmaker.

…he Hollywood business model may seem like it’s a dinosaur, now that the barriers to distribution have vanished. But Hollywood doesn’t just create and distribute content, it also funds it through a variety of investment sources.

Is it possible to bypass the Hollywood money machine? How are we as filmmakers going to make enough money from streaming web content to make it worthwhile for ourselves and an investor? Is the allure of rubbing shoulders with the stars enough to entice the nouveau riche into investing in a web-distributed film?

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