Filmmaker's Notebook: We Have Been Here Before.

Filmmaking is broken. Distribution models are crumbling. Studios are slashing budgets like they’re cutting coupons. Streaming platforms are more obsessed with metrics than storytelling. Sound familiar? It should. We’ve been here before. The 1970s Playbook If you’re feeling the squeeze of today’s filmmaking landscape, take comfort in this: we’re standing on the edge of a transition, not an apocalypse. In the 1970s, the system really broke. Studios were bleeding money. Audiences were restless....