Welcome to our annual Slamdance Film Festival infographic, in which we visualize data that provides insight into the current landscape of the independent film industry. Be sure to read Adam Leipzig’s related article, Independent Films 2020: The Widening Gyre Share this Image On Your Site — Copy and Paste the Code Below<p><strong>Please include attribution …
The climate is changing. It’s getting colder, and not just in Park City, which will have snow this year as it did last, after a spate of summer-like Januaries. The independent filmmaking climate as a whole is changing, and our data shows that filmmaking is changing with it. When we first started doing our Sundance …
Sundance Infographic 2018: As Climate Changes, Indies Retrench Read More »
“By Filmmakers, For Filmmakers” has been Slamdance’s brand concept since its inception in 1995, and it’s a mantra that continues this year, as Slamdance celebrates its 2018 edition January 19-25. Slamdance offers a counterweight to the Park City madness of Sundance, although Slamdance has its own madness, the creative anarchy of being filmmaker-governed and focused …
Slamdance 2018 By the Numbers: Creative Anarchy and Record Submission Levels Read More »
Movies are going gangbusters, and one studio—Disney—achieved a record-breaking $7 billion global box office last year. What could possibly go wrong? According to my analysis of historical patterns, we’re due for a downturn. The film industry is often likened to a roller-coaster because we experience it as having surprising ups and down. The analogy is …
$4.6 Billion Invested in Indies; Nearly All Festival Films Get Distribution Congratulations Sundance filmmakers! You have a 4 in 5 chance of getting a distribution deal. That’s one key finding from our data-crunching preparation for the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. As recently as 2010, getting distribution at Sundance was rare. In that year, as in …
Sundance Infographic 2015: Dollars and Distribution Read More »
Sex and the cinema … they’ve gone hand-in-hand even as far back as the late 19th century!
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