As a counterpoint to the utopian bliss of the Sundance Filmmakers Lab, I’ll direct your attention a speech given by James D. Stern last week on the present and future of independent film. In my post-mortem on The Nines , I wrote that the business model of selling your indie at Sundance for theatrical release was largely mythology. The numbers are stacked against you, and have only gotten worse. According to Stern: An astonishing 9,293 films were submitted to Sundance last year.
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