Indiewood Explained
Indiewood (also known as "specialty", "alternative", "indie", or "quality") films are made outside of the Hollywood studio system or traditional arthouse/independent filmmaking system yet managed to be produced, financed and distributed by the two with varying degrees of success and/or failure.[1]
Background
The American independent film, prior to the 1980s and first half of the 1990s,[2] was previously associated with b movies, exploitation films, avant-garde underground cinema (when it was known as the New American Cinema[3]), social and political documentaries, experimental animated shorts (since the mid-1930s featuring works by pioneer animators Mary Ellen Bute and Oskar Fischinger) and social realist dramas.[4] [5] [6]
Throughout the middle of the 1990s, the word "Indiewood" (a.k.a. "indie boom" or "indie film movement") was invented to describe a component of the spectrum of American films in which distinctions exist, it seemed as if Hollywood and the independent sector had become blurred.[7] [8] [9]
Divisions
Indiewood divisions gain from expert experience of the niche industry by hiring leading independent personalities such as Harvey Weinstein[10] from the Disney fold after the exit of the Weinsteins,[11] [12] and James Schamus, former joint head of Good Machine, at Focus Features.[13]
Other "mini-major" subdivisions/indie distributors
Sources
[15] [16]
Differences from Hollywood
The films are often made for far less money than Hollywood films[17] (some films like Robert Townsend's 1987's satire Hollywood Shuffle and Kevin Smith's 1994 Gen X comedy Clerks were funded by using credit cards) and each aspect of the filmmaking process has to undergo less scrutiny by committees. Additionally, within the Indiewood approach the filmmaker can take as long as they need in the post-production phase of their film - whereas in Hollywood they are contracted to finish the film in a specific period of time (usually 10 weeks). In Hollywood, the film then goes on to show in focus group screenings on the studio lot. In Indiewood, the filmmakers can determine the next steps of the film. They also bear striking similarities to as well as were influenced by the "proto-indies" of the 1960s such as Robert Downey Sr's still image film Chafed Elbows (1966), John Cassavetes's Academy Award-nominated Faces and Brian de Palma's Greetings (each from 1968) which in turn were influenced by the culture of the Beat Generation, the polar opposite to the conformist, gray-flannel conformity of 1950s America.[18]
Most Indiewood films are first shown at film festivals with the hopes of further distribution by being picked up (or purchased) by a larger film company or distributor in order to find broader audiences alongside awards consideration (e.g. 2009's A Single Man).[19]
List of selected Indiewood/Pre-Indiewood filmmakers
[21]
[21]
[61]
[75]
List of selected notable and important Pre-Indiewood films
Pre-1950s
1950s
1960s
1970s
[83] [107] [82] [101] ≈
List of notable and important Indiewood films
1980s
[81] [105] [83] ≈
[140] [119] [81] [83]
[119] [101] ≈
[119] ≈
[157] [140] [144] [81] [149] [138] [75] [119] [63] [158] [105] [83] [82] [101] ≈
1990s
[169] [144] [81] [149] [82]
[82] [164] [105] [83] [149] ≈
[172] [169] [144] [83] [149]
[170] [173] [172] [169] [88] [149] [164]
[144] [81] [83] ≈
[179] [172] [81] [105] [83] ≈
[144] [183] [83] [149] [182] [164]
[172] [188] [88] [83] [182] [164]
[142] [81] [88] [83] [149] [82]
2000s
[173] [81] [183] [198] [83] [149]
[211] [144] [81] [198] [88] [83] [149]
2010s
2020s
Notes
See also
Bibliography
External links
Notes and References
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