Very timely. I’m a member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia and also just wrote a piece on some of the shifts we can work towards as independent filmmakers to transform the film industry as a whole. Audience investment and engagement is going to be huge. I think we have to find ways to remove the barriers that major studios and streamers place in between filmmakers and their audiences. People have become overly reliant on streamers to curate their content for them at a price that keeps going up, imagine if that money went directly to the filmmaking teams instead. When you consider how much content doesn’t even get watched on streaming platforms, it’s worth asking what it could look like if we valued quality over quantity and were more intentional and discerning about our content consumption.
These tough times are going to produce some incredible movies presented in incredible ways to truly engaged audiences that are going to champion it in incredible ways.
Very timely. I’m a member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia and also just wrote a piece on some of the shifts we can work towards as independent filmmakers to transform the film industry as a whole. Audience investment and engagement is going to be huge. I think we have to find ways to remove the barriers that major studios and streamers place in between filmmakers and their audiences. People have become overly reliant on streamers to curate their content for them at a price that keeps going up, imagine if that money went directly to the filmmaking teams instead. When you consider how much content doesn’t even get watched on streaming platforms, it’s worth asking what it could look like if we valued quality over quantity and were more intentional and discerning about our content consumption.
These tough times are going to produce some incredible movies presented in incredible ways to truly engaged audiences that are going to champion it in incredible ways.
I can't wait. It can't happen soon enough.