Here's why I like indiepix.



In the current discourse concerning new business models for the distribution of independently produced motion pictures, it is widely agreed that a potentially growing audience has at their disposal an ever-increasing variety of options by which to consume an increasing amount of media produced by a growing trained workforce.


While a lot of people make comparisons to the independent music business in the nineties, and while certainly a lot of lessons can be learned from the successful management of scale within that sector,I think a more apt comparison is the explosion of paper-back print media at the beginning of the previous century.


Obviously there are differences, the physical costs of production being relatively greater is the first one that comes to mind, but as a creative professional trying to figure out how I might be able to find an audience and to what extent my aptitude, education and professional background might work for me as a source of revenue, indiepix has expressed a genuine enthusiasm for seeking out those markets.


Just as there will, barring catastrophe, always be Hollywood, corporate Art-House niche films will be around as well. But there is room for a third category. The dime-store novella. The penny-dreadful. The quick, cheap, mass-produced fiction that brought us Charles Dickens and Philip K. Dick.