You Made It For How Much?: Indie Filmmaking in Australia

In a country with no dominant commercial, studio-based film industry (a la Hollywood), what constitutes indie filmmaking? Is the classification simply a budgetary one, an indicator of aesthetic strategies, or something else entirely? Four young Australian filmmakers—Kriv Stenders, Rowan Michael Hoole, Alex Frayne and Daniel Krige—who have films at AFF07, will discuss their experiences of low budget filmmaking around Australia, as well as discussing the ways these films can fit into emerging structures of distribution and exhibition.