1. Indiewood

2. News Corporation (Fox/Searchlight) Sony (Columbia/TriStar) Viacom (Paramount/Vantage) Comcast (Universal/Focus) Disney (Walt Disney/Touchstone) Time Warner (Warner Bros./New Line)

3. The 1980s saw Hollywood reverting back to the studio era climate of the 30s and 40s. This time the corporate owners of the studios controlled the film business rather than the studio bosses themselves. Gradually an alternate pathway other than the Hollywood system was devised that gave independent filmmakers the creative control that was heavily compromised in conventional ways. This alternate pathway was informally known to be Indiewood.

4. Big budget Hollywood films are bankrolled, given a deadline and are subject to focus group viewings. Independent films find their way to audiences through film festivals.

5. Hollywood vs Indies HollywoodIndependent MoviesFilms FantasyRealism SafeControversial ExpensiveLow Budget Genre RaidersPersonal Vision Studio gets the final cutDirector gets the final cut Large ScaleIntimate SequelsUnique Special FXScript

6. Made on comparatively low budgets some of the independent films made considerable profit at the box office (Pulp Fiction, Clerks, Desperado) as well as winning critical acclaim around the globe. By the mid 90s major studios developed their own independent film producing subsidiary divisions.

7. Miramax (1979 - ) Reservoir Dogs (1992) Pulp Fiction (1994) Trainspotting (1996) From Dusk til Dawn (1996) The English Patient (1996) Good Will Hunting (1997) Shakespeare in Love (1998) Gangs of New York (2002) Chicago (2002) Kill Bill (2003/2004) No Country for Old Men (2007)

8. Walt Disney – Miramax (Pulp Fiction, Trainspotting, Dogma) Warner Bros – New Line Cinema (Boogie Nights, American History X, Magnolia) 20 th Century Fox – Fox Searchlight Pictures (Fightclub, Boys Don’t Cry, Juno) Paramount Pictures – Paramount Vantage (Babel, There Will Be Blood, No Country for Old Men) Columbia Pictures – Sony Pictures Classic (2046, Crouching Tiger, Run Lola Run)

9. Key players that shaped American Independent Cinema: John Cassavattes David Lynch Jim Jarmusch Sundance Film Festival Independent Spirit Awards Miramax Steven Soderbergh Spike Lee Quintin Tarentino Kevin Smith Robert Rodreiguez