"They’re starving for new films. The demand is there. The seats are there. The fans are there. What’s missing is supply"
Sorry, but these kind of comments really piss me off. There's no lack of supply. It's just that these theaters don't want to put the effort in to develop their own, local, indie interested audience. They want the indie filmmakers, who's already self funded the creation of their film, to rent their theater, do all the promotion, so they can sell their overpriced soda and popcorn. Hell, they won't even take your film if you let them have it for free. If anyone needs to change the way they run their business, it's theaters. They either stop sitting on their ass waiting for the next POS major studio film that nobody wants to see, to get delivered on their doorstep and watch their industry go the way of Blockbuster, who didn't adapt. Or they start being proactive and start changing how they source their movies. But stop expecting indie filmmakers to do all the work and carry all the risk.
"They’re starving for new films. The demand is there. The seats are there. The fans are there. What’s missing is supply"
Sorry, but these kind of comments really piss me off. There's no lack of supply. It's just that these theaters don't want to put the effort in to develop their own, local, indie interested audience. They want the indie filmmakers, who's already self funded the creation of their film, to rent their theater, do all the promotion, so they can sell their overpriced soda and popcorn. Hell, they won't even take your film if you let them have it for free. If anyone needs to change the way they run their business, it's theaters. They either stop sitting on their ass waiting for the next POS major studio film that nobody wants to see, to get delivered on their doorstep and watch their industry go the way of Blockbuster, who didn't adapt. Or they start being proactive and start changing how they source their movies. But stop expecting indie filmmakers to do all the work and carry all the risk.