Independent Film Canada - an open letter

MAGNOLIA
FIVE EASY PIECES
MANHATTAN
BEFORE SUNRISE
THE RETURN
THREE COLOURS RED
HURLYBURLY
LOST IN TRANSLATION
SHORT CUTS
IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE
EXOTICA
THE ICE STORM
SIDEWAYS
YUMI IN LOVE

DEAR INDEPENDENT FILM COMMUNITY

We need to stop chasing FORMULA, GENRE, and MEDIOCRITY.

There will be SO MANY opportunities to sell out in the future,
there is NO reason to sacrifice artistic integrity. This is
especially true when you're just starting out.

Tired of that Romantic Comedy where they "meet cute" on page
five, suffer their "inciting incident on page twenty",
and, against all odds...you get the picture. Tired of
hanging lights for it, shooting it, and donating your
time and energy to working on these types of films
altogether...or at least for a while? Join us.

Donate your time and energy, instead, to a film which will,
with your help, take its rightful place alongside the films
listed above: YUMI IN LOVE

High Concept means Low Quality almost each and every time.
If you prefer THE CRITERION COLLECTION to the BONE COLLECTOR,
if you enjoy The Magnificant Ambersons or the Magnificant
Andersons (Wes and P.T.), and if you believe that Fight Club
is the only good “they’re the same guy” movie, then we have
just the thing for you, a BRILLIANT SCRIPT and a guaranteed
FANTASTIC TIME making a film the INDEPENDENT way, the CLERKS
way, the BOTTLE ROCKET way, the EL MARIACHI way, the SLACKER
way, the CASSAVETES, BURNS, TOWNSEND, and the NEIL LABUTE way.

Tell Shane Carruth and the team that made the Sundance award
winning PRIMER for $7,000 that "you can only make a short film
for under $100,000" and that you can only use a few characters
and one or two locations.".

Help us reposition the frame.

Filmmaking is an adventure that you get to share with others.

We are looking for PRODUCERS, INVESTORS, CAST, and CREW.

Yumi falls in love July 1, 2006...

CONTACT US TODAY.

www.ashleypark.net saturnhead@shaw.ca

High Concept means Low Quality almost each and every time.

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That's one heck of a charged statement.

Good luck on the film.

...that's quite a rant, you should tell this to distributors...

--spinner

Yadda yadda yadda... quite frankly I'm tired of opinions. Lets face it - film making is a business and unless you sacrifice a bit for what the general market wants you're not going to succeed in the business or make money to make films you want to make. People in the general market want what people in the general market want - and most often than not they arn't after highly intelligent arty farty pieces that only the 'intellects' can understand blah blah blah and go right stupid books about. Rah! I'm on a rant. But anyway... All I'm saying is, there's no point in saying 'Tired of This' because if you don't engage with the market the film industry will never succeed, and you will always remain a poor fringe 'artist' who has no place in the full industry. I would say you probably have to make 3 movies you hate to fund 1 that you love.