Submitting To Film Festivals
living thing I ever did. Anyway, Vinnie agreed to lower his 70% interest rate to 68.9%.
Unfortunately, I’ve been a little down about the state of independent film. I was talking with 360 (fellow filmmaker Dwayne) last night about how the industry is just too political with secret handshakes and agendas driving the way things happen. At first, I thought the market was just oversaturated, which is true, but now I realize that it’s not talent, but rather the sponsors that are dictating things. They seem to be more interested in promoting cultural agendas than fostering new talent.
I have seen too many good films passed over for subpar films that promote a certain political or social economic perspective. This is especially true with African American films. There is a real effort by groups of black people to dumb down, or to ghettoize, our existence through the
