Can indie films afford to invent new technologies?
Gladstone: Most of the time an indie studio is less focused on re-inventing the wheel, which allows it to put all its resources into the creative aspects of the process. You have less time and money to forge ahead technologically, so you focus on your strengths, and for an independent, that strength is most often creative freedom. What appears to be the biggest obstacle for an indie studio? Gladstone: With the continuing user friendliness of the technologies, the large, remaining obstacle will be distribution, not technology or the amount of people needed to make a film. The question will be whether we can get our particular movie seen. And, I wish I knew what the solution might be. I suspect big studios won’t want whippersnappers doing their own distribution—just look at the record industry. Most big studios now have an independent arm, or a group within the studio that buys, produces, does negative pickup on smaller indie films, and runs limited releases. Davis: One of the advantages
