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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

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