How has the funding climate for independent media changed since the NBPC’s inception?
Many changes have occurred. In many cases where funding levels increase, risk-taking, experimentation, and new ideas and forms decrease. There has been a move on the part of public television for the past 10 years to encourage more mini-series for the core schedule, which is anathema to what many independents are producing—shorts and one-offs. New technology continues to threaten to turn media upside down, and bring with it great changes due to cost reduction and higher levels of quality maintenance for productions.
