The Royal Tennebaums

[tpfkabi]

indie was not part of my statement.

[Pas]

what are some examples of the movies/directors who burnt people?

Well of course by definition if a movie by a first time director with a 2 million budget made 50k we won't know anything about it.



Pete you're right though about these films not being ''indie'' per se... yes.

As for indie pre-sales, I haven't experienced it myself as you do in the US because here in Canada everything goes straight through the government first (funds all movie/TV made here...as soon as you get your gov financing you're gonna get private money and distribution...without gov money you might as well forget it (except recent exceptions like ''How I killed my mother'' that was 100% private and won a bunch of awards in Cannes). I worked in movie finance for a year in HSBC Bank Canada and saw a few really noname indie guys having a good enough script to get gov. interest and then pre-sales. But really rare stuff. We wouldn't even loan to anyone without Gov funding AND presales.

Maybe in the US it's another game though