“the torch“ #25 – Commercial Independence

Everybody wants to strike it big, win the lottery and go home with the main prize – for luck or achievement, what does it matter, really? And undoubtedly, money is a valuable asset better to be had in sufficient supply; especially so when your prime ambition is with film and filmmaking, that incurable inclination to lavishly spend as much and as unreasonably as you possibly can (and preferably somebody else’s $s at that). But there are strings attached with funding obtained from outside sources, the government’s pots or some investor’s neat calculation, and the young auteur is afforded to be just enough of the young entrepreneur as well as to prevent the thing from backfiring – commercially or artistically. For when push comes to shove, those two are inseparable and need to be balanced if not entirely reconciled.
Well, how to? Or, what’s so wrong with that? Questions unanswerable – but happily debated nonetheless: here.

(pic©mo)