Filmmaker's Notebook - Edition 16: The Cavalry Isn’t Coming: How to Save Indie Film Ourselves

Hey Reader, Have you seen Moneyball? There’s a moment in the film when Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) sits in a meeting with his scouts. The team is failing, and the scouts keep suggesting the same players with the same criteria: guys who look the part, play the game the way it’s always been played, and fit the mold of a “real” baseball star. Beane stops them cold with this line: “If we try to play like the Yankees in here, we will lose to the Yankees out there.” Sound familiar? That’s...