HD For Indies

deepstructure: AFM: part I - who backs movies and why

Christopher Stack is a blogger in LA who attended the AFM Seminars and took notes (the way I do). If you're trying to find money to back your indie project, this looks like an EXTREMELY useful read.

Favorite snippet - the panel of film investors was asked by the moderator what they are looking for - one panelists response:

to make money; stuff they won’t be embarrassed by – prestigious material; business that attracts business; e.g. 'bobby'


Keep in mind, your low budget, stalk-'n-slash-in-the-woods wouldn't necessarily meet all of those criteria.

And while I'm feeling like pointing things out, I take "Turista" as one of the first larger releases of what I'm fearing will be a wave of Saw & Hostel knockoffs - at FantasticFest there was an ENTIRE CATEGORY they called "Survival Horror" which was basically people running around alone and afraid in the woods, getting reduced in number, limbs, internal organs and blood content. Crazy people chasing, catching, torturing them horribly, slowly, closely, minutely, in detail, up close, on camera.

An intense experience, but not a FUN one.

May that trend die a quick, dry, painless, quiet little gaspy death.

-mike