THE INDEPENDENT ADVANTAGE
INDEPENDENT DEVELOPMENT keeps a singular new voice intact, by working outside the institutional culture that too often leads to just “another version of the same ol’ thing.”
EXAMPLES
1990s INDIE FILMS – films developed outside "The Studio System” – that enabled new voices to deliver breakout success.
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
Written & Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Made for $1.2 million / Grossed $36.7 million
/ Launched Steven Soderbergh
Slacker (1990)
Written & Directed by Richard Linklater
Made for $23,000 / Grossed $1.2 million
/ Launched Richard Linklater
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Written & Directed by Quentin Tarantino
Made for $1.2 million / Grossed $2.9 million
/ Launched Quentin Tarantino
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Written & Directed by Quentin Tarantino
Made for about $8.5 million / Grossed $213.9 million
/ First Indie Film to gross $100 million
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Written & Directed by Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sánchez
Made for about $60,000 / Grossed $250 million
/ Guerrilla marketing campaign
Clerks (1994)
Written & Directed by Kevin Smith
Made for $27,575 / Grossed $4.4 million
/ Launched Kevin Smith
The Brothers McMullen (1995)
Written & Directed by Edward Burns
Made for $25,000 / Grossed $10.4 million
/ Sundance Grand Jury Prize
/ Launched Edward Burns
Pi (1998)
Written & Directed by Darren Aronofsky
Made for $60,000 / Grossed $3 million
/ Sundance Best Director
/ Launched Darren Aronofsky