As a part of our lesson for midterm in our Cinema101
class, our professor let us watch a documentary about independent filmmaking
and filmmakers in Hollywood whom were not just independent but made it huge in
the field. From the word itself independent, these were directors who chose being
self-reliant than engaging to mainstream film industry.
The documentary featured some directors having a talk on
why they chose to be independent. One of their common reasons was when you are an
independent filmmaker, you are able to control all that you want your film to
look like, feel like and sound like basing on your own choice, genre, style and
ideas. In other words, independent filmmaking gave them the freedom to express
their unique artistic style which mainstream filmmaking limits.
One of the major contributions of independent filmmaking
was paving a way to African-American films. However, in mainstream filmmaking,
African-American actors did not get the chance to play main roles which is
obviously a form of racism in some way. Spike Lee, an African-American independent
director, directed a movie with his fellow-citizens as cast.
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