Indiewood

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Indiewood (also known as "specialty", "alternative", "indie", or "quality")[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] films are those made outside of the Hollywood studio system or traditional arthouse/independent filmmaking system yet managed to be produced, financed and distributed by the two with varying degrees of success and/or failure.[8]

Background[edit]

Throughout the middle of the 1990s, the word "Indiewood" (a.k.a. "indie boom" or "indie film movement")[9][10][4][11] was invented to describe a component of the spectrum of American films in which distinctions exist, it seemed as if Hollywood and the independent sector had become blurred.[12][13][14][15][16][4] The American independent film, prior to the 1980s and first half of the 1990s,[17][18][19] was previously associated with b movies, exploitation films, avant-garde underground cinema (when it was known as the New American Cinema)[20] and social realist dramas.[21][22][23][24]

Indiewood divisions gain from expert experience of the niche industry by hiring leading independent personalities such as Harvey Weinstein[11] from the Disney fold after the exit of the Weinsteins,[25][26] and James Schamus, former joint head of Good Machine, at Focus Features.[27]

Other "mini-major" subdivisions included Searchlight Pictures, Fine Line Features (established by New Line Cinema), Lionsgate, NEON, A24, Paramount Vantage, Summit Entertainment, Orion Pictures, Samuel Goldwyn Company, Warner Independent, Picturehouse, United Artists (first founded in 1919 as an independent studio that allowed more creative freedom[28] for former silent film stars like Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin), Blumhouse, Cannon Films, and Sony Pictures Classics.[29][2][30][9][31][32][33][34][35][36]

Differences from Hollywood[edit]

The films are often made for far less money than Hollywood films[37][11][38] (some films like Robert Townsend's 1987's satire Hollywood Shuffle and Kevin Smith's 1994 Gen X comedy Clerks were funded by using credit cards[19]) and each aspect of the filmmaking process has to undergo less scrutiny by committees. Additionally, within the Indiewood approach the filmmaker can take as long as they need in the post-production phase of their film - whereas in Hollywood they are contracted to finish the film in a specific period of time (usually 10 weeks). In Hollywood, the film then goes on to show in focus group screenings on the studio lot. In Indiewood, the filmmakers can determine the next steps of the film. They also bear striking similarities to as well as were influenced by the "proto-indies" of the 1960s such as Robert Downey Sr's still image film Chafed Elbows (1966), John Cassavetes's Academy Award-nominated Faces and Brian de Palma's Greetings (each from 1968) which in turn were influenced by the culture of the Beat Generation, the polar opposite to the conformist, gray-flannel conformity of 1950s America.[39][24]

Most Indiewood films are first shown at film festivals with the hopes of further distribution by being picked up (or purchased) by a larger film company or distributor alongside awards consideration (e.g. 2009's A Single Man).[40]

List of selected Indiewood filmmakers[edit]

[11][35][41][62][7][47]

[17][23][46][24][35][64][62][42][47][71][44]

[129][34][84][69][58][67][24][130][62]

[45][67][11][24][35][42]

[72][34][131][84][45][67][11][17][46][64][62]

[45][11][46][24][75][62][7][47]

[67][51][46][41][70][79][47]

[35][63][47]

[67][88][134][70][71]

[34][69][177][67][74][51][46][35][62]

[84][69][58][67][51][46][24][35][47]

[164][69][67][62][134]

[150][35][64][62][47]

[10][156][84][69][177][45][67][11][53][51][24][35]

[10][82][5][147][58][67][24][35][62]

[46][41][70][47]

List of selected notable and important Indiewood films[edit]

Pre-1950s[edit]

1950s[edit]

1960s[edit]

1970s[edit]

1980s[edit]

[67][142][11][83][95][46][24][35][64]

[45][67][22][142][11][83][95][46][35]

[95][22][23][46][35][64][62][141]

[142][22][41][70]

[72][34][84][69][177][45][67][142][11][83][62][71] [95][51][22][163][46][24][35][126][47][141]

1990s[edit]

[6][58][67][83][35][62][47]

[47][44][246][74][24][35][62]

[6][58][253][67][51][23][35][62]

[84][69][6][58][173][158][62][246]

[253][67][83][95][51][74][35]

[4][252][146][32][6][83][23][24][35]

[67][95][23][35][62][170][246]

[6][173][158][35][170][246]

[42][210][83][51][158][35][62][47]

2000s[edit]

[69][83][95][74][23][35][62]

[76][253][67][265][83][74][23][158][35][62]

2010s[edit]

2020s[edit]

Notes[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u Academy Award nominations 2020: The return of the "quality" Hollywood studio film - News - University of Liverpool
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  12. ^ Home video and Indiewood|Hollywood: A Very Short Introduction|Oxford Academic
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  15. ^ The Cinema Book - Google Books (pg.59)
  16. ^ a b c d e f g CANNES 2000: Embracing Indiewood, Cannes 2000 Lineup Selected from Nearly 1,400 Films; 15 Countries|IndieWire
  17. ^ a b c d e f 50 Best '80s Movies to Watch Right Now|Time Out
  18. ^ Louie Maple teams a young Susan Sarandon with an aging Burt Lancaster|The A.V. Club
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  20. ^ a b c Watch: How New Hollywood Created the American Indie - No Film School
  21. ^ a b c Tom Waits and John Lurie helped Jim Jarmusch perfect his indie cool|A.V. Club
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  26. ^ Chapter Eight. Maxed Out: Miramax and Indiewood in the New Millennium - De Gruyter
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  29. ^ Somewhere Only We Know on Notebook|MUBI
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  36. ^ New Yorkers Films, an Independent Distributor, Will Close After 44 Years - The New York Times
  37. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m How Indiewood gatecrashed the Oscars|Financial Times
  38. ^ a b c d e f How an Unlikely Hollywood Juggernaut Came to Rule Netflix|WIRED
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  40. ^ a b c d e Overcoming the Stigma: The Queer Denial of Indiewood on JSTOR
  41. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab 10 Films You Can’t Miss at Cinefamily’s Month-Long Homage to ’80s Indie Cinema - LAmag
  42. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o John Pierson Interview On American Indies and IFC's 'Split Screen'|IndieWire
  43. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m How the New Queer Cinema Shaped the '90s Indie Film Boom - Yahoo Finance
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