, insisted that financing indie films has become “so bespoke that very few companies can actually thread those teeny, weeny little needles” that are needed to get indie projects off of the ground.
as an example of an indie title that had recently worked with the old cornerstone finance elements that have propped up the business for so long. The British-Hungarian co-production accessed tax rebates and was pre-sold to Focus Features off of a promo. Emilie Georges, CEO of sales outfit Memento International and production company Paradise City, had a firmer view on indie opportunities in the streaming world: “Streamers are not the target for many of the indie films we work on,” she said.
However, Frank Smith pointed to the fact that the appetite for content has never been better and said that streamers have posed as a great home for projects that had previously been rejected in the indie world.