As reported in the Guardian (11/29/12), China’s film market is exploding.

Ben Child writes …

Morgan Spurlock, probably best known for his documentary

SUPER SIZE ME (2004), which earned him an Academy Award

nomination for Best Documentary, has some advice for

independent filmmakers.

          TAKE CHANCES!

First, there was Amazon Studios.

Now, there’s Amazon Studios’ People’s Production Company.

Amazon recently posted some new job listings as part of a search for what 

 Ryan Lawler (Gigaom.com) describes as,

“…creative execs to develop programming through its Amazon Studios initiative. The jobs specifically are for the “People’s Production Company,” which is the name of the production studio producing original content, located in Sherman Oaks, Calif. Successful applicants would report to Amazon’s VP of Series Development and would be expected to:

As the 2012 Sundance Film Festival approaches, filmmakers whose films have been accepted by the Festival this year, or any other year for that matter, have an additional reason to be happy, thanks to an initiative set up by the Sundance Institute last summer to help Sundance alumni get their films streamed online.

Scott Macaulay wrote in Filmmaker Magazine (July 27, 2011) …

Why is it that so many good independent films are getting made, but we’re not seeing them in movie theaters, or even on Netflix?  At AFM this past weekend, we met with an exec from a large sales agent who said that the market has determined that there’s no audience for these films; but the “market” is not really the market but a group of decision-makers who decide not to put money behind marketing or distributing these films.  Instead, they market and distribute crappy movies that no one really wants to see …

Hybrid Distribution is catching on.

First conceptualized by Peter Broderick, who runs Paradigm Consulting in LA, this new form of indie distribution is a way for independent film producers to find their audiences by retaining sales rights and working with multiple third party distributors rather than following the traditional route of giving away all rights to a single distributor …

Graham Taylor’s keynote address at LAFF 2011 was a rallying call to independent filmmakers to become more entrepreneurial.

Given the proliferation of networked digital technologies, a consumer revolution is afoot which is transforming the distribution landscape by enabling viewers to take control of their viewing habits and filmmakers to take control of the distribution of their films.

In Taylor’s own words …