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Independent Cinema: Creative Negotiations
Presenters and PapersWelcome to our panel “Independent Cinema: Creative Negotiations”
Thank you so much for making the time to be here.
This panel on “Independent Cinema: Creative Negotiations” analyzes the many strategies employed by indie filmmakers to make their films and get them seen by the general public. As we came to realize in our course on “Independent Cinema” in Fall 2019, tension between the industry and independent film creators has existed since the beginning of cinema. Strong-willed and resourceful filmmakers such as George Romero, Roger Corman, and Terrence Malick have always been engaged in creative negotiations to locate the resources to make their films. The field of independent cinema has many different stakeholders, including the filmmakers themselves, distributors, exhibitors, the fans, the critics, festival organizers, and film lovers who in any given era also negotiate what is truly an “independent” film and what is not. We found through the course of the semester that the term “independent” film is complex and shifting – it depends on the public’s demand for films, forces of censorship, government monopoly busting, and larger economic forces impacting the film industry. From any perspective, Independent Cinema is a field of creative negotiations.
I will introduce each presenter and then we will have a question and answer period at the end of the session.
Paper 1: “George Romero: Hollywood Outsider”John Kelleher
Paper 2: “Roger Corman as Producer: The Use of the Slockbuster”Zachary Rioux
Paper 3: “Animation and Racial Injustice in Two New Wave Animated Films”Tyler Thompson
Paper 4: eter Kelleher: “Quirky as Anti-Mainstream: A Look at A24”Peter Kelleher
Paper 5: “Terrence Malick: Film as Philosophy and Manipulating The Studios”Jacob Egan-Boothroyd
Paper 6: “Netflix’s Effect on the Distribution of Independent Cinema”Dylan O’Connell