Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film — The Indie Machine
Independent cinema emerged as an alternative to Hollywood. Its success eventually created a powerful system of its own.
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Using Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film by Peter Biskind as our lens, this investigation traces the rise of the American independent-film ecosystem and the institutions that helped transform it.
Biskind places Sundance and Miramax at the center of a period when filmmakers who once operated largely outside the studio system gained new routes to…
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