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You are not the only one struggling. Everyone is. And we can do something about it. But first you've got to get mad. Post a video or tweet saying, "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more." Put @openindie and we'll find it and make a mash up of screen grabs and video clips. Actually do it. It will feel good. You'll feel better about what a panel of indie film experts at the Moma recently declared an indie film crisis. Once you've gotten mad, donate to OpenIndie here: http://bit.ly/752Dl Then blog about it. Here is the video that explains what OpenIndie is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3X0-cyNDiA Below is the text from the end of this video incase you want to quote it for a blog post, re-read or fact check (links included): Ted Hope, producer of Thumbsucker & many other films donated $100 to help build OpenIndie. http://www.kickstarter.com/profile/2005196536 3,666 feature films were submitted to Sundance last year and only 178 got in. http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/12/03/2009-sundance-film-festival-competition-films-announced/ Lance Weiler, founder of the Workbook Project, self distributed his two films,The Last Broadcast & Head Trauma & has donated $100 towards building OpenIndie. http://lanceweiler.com Only 10 films found distribution at Sundance 2009. http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2009/01/25/sundance-wrap/ Ondi Timoner, filmmaker of Digg & Join Us donated $100 to sign up her new film We Live in Public on OpenIndie. http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/coming-soon-we-live-in-public/ In 2008 Mark Gill declared the sky is falling on independent film. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/the_big_picture/2008/06/the-sky-is-fall.html Ira Deutchman manages a network of 65 digital theaters & donated $100 to help build OpenIndie. http://iradeutchman.com/wordpress/about/ Four Eyed Monsters had to file a lawsuit against IFC for sitting on their film for a year and never paying. http://twitter.com/4eyedmonsters Arin Crumley, co-director of Four Eyed Monsters has now co-founded OpenIndie & will use it to distribute his upcoming feature film at the same time as it's festival premiere. Learn more at: http://openindie.com Subscribe for future videos: http://arincrumley.com/subscribe Follow: http://twitter.com/arincrumley Distributed by Tubemogul.
