True Independent Filmmaking: Outside of the Studio System

This is the most intelligent writing, most encouraging movement and best work that I've seen regarding independent film production maybe ever.

-Ron Levaco
Producer/Director, Trans Film & Video
Professor and Chair Emeritus, Cinema Department, San Francisco State, about, "Small is Beautiful: Making Movies as if Filmmakers Mattered."

Small is Beautiful
Making Movies as if Filmmakers Mattered

By

JP Kaneshida

http://sibmovies.blogspot.com
www.freewebs.com/sibmovies
sibmovies@gmail.com

©2003, 2005, 2006

One of the most fateful errors of our age is the belief that “the problem of production” has been solved. Not only is this belief firmly held by people remote from production and therefore professionally unacquainted with the facts—it is held by virtually all the experts, the captains of industry, the economic managers in the governments of the world, the academic and the not-so-academic economists, not to mention the economic journalists. They may disagree on many things but they all agree that the problem of production has been solved, that mankind has at last come of age….

…No doubt “the system” is in many ways bad and must be changed. One of the main reasons why it is bad and why it can still survive in spite of its badness is this erroneous view that the “problem of production” has been solved. As this error pervades all present-day systems there is at present not much to choose between them.

-E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered


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