Essay About Indie Film

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The development of digital technology immensely contributed to the filmmaking industry. It changes the way filmmakers produce and distribute their film. Movies are recordings of moving pictures that tell stories and where people usually watch on screen or television. The production and distribution of films are a unique form of art that continuously trying to develop through time. As a business, it understands its need to sustain the relationship between the viewers, equipment and funding. As an art, it has its own uniqueness that transform the vision of a filmmaker to a new form. Independent films or “indie film” is a type of movie or film that is produced in an unaffiliated record of a motion-picture company (The Nippon Foundation Fellowships …show more content…

It unfold critical issues and discourses about the different problems in the Philippines. It defines the diversity of forms, global or local context, particularly their artistic manifestation and insights on their own filmmaking, crossroad with economy, culture and prospect (Boumgärtel, 2012). This gives opportunity to other Filipino movies not made by Regal Films, GMA films, Star cinema or Viva Films to produce their own films. Indie films having a small amount of fund to produce their films had become a hindrance for aspiring filmmakers to use their full talent. Nowadays more indie filmmakers are attracting the ‘right’ funding from their recognition, the prize money they won will go to their next production that shall give them their artistic and creative independence (The Nippon Foundation Fellowships for Asian Public Intellectuals, 2007-2008). In the Philippines socio-economic context, indie films have capture and attract global audiences giving the local filmmakers a chance to present their works internationally and helping the filmmaking industry to develop. Filipino Local filmmakers like Brillante Mendoza, and now Raya Martin, Sherad Anthony Sanchez and Pepe Diokno have already became well known on the foreign festival circuit. Diaz, Diokno and Mendoza have won laurels at Venice and

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