[acesultan]

This is guerrilla film-making. It's gutsy, but it doesn't pay. There's no market for it. Maybe digital distribution channels will change it - or is already changing it. But the conventional channels discard this approach. Nothing new here.

[jamesgatz]

Guerrilla film-making is when you make a film in your parents' basement using a VHS handicam and your brother's lego collection. For $35,000, using modern production equipment, it's entirely possible to produce a genre film that meets (and often exceeds) the production and narrative value of any major studio film (http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/coldweather/).

If you're saying that there's no market for compelling stories efficiently told, then we better batten down the hatches. I'm pretty sure Revelations lists that as one of the six signs of the Apocalypse.