But coupled with advances in technology, digital film equipment and online distribution, many young filmmakers say they see this as an opportunity to experiment with new and financially viable ways of making independent movies.
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When I wrote about "Sin Nombre, " which was shot with graphic grandeur by the Brazilian cinematographer Adriano Goldman, I called the use of 35mm film cameras instead of digital equipment a crucial aesthetic choice.
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Nicknamed "Night Robbery" because it has the highest crime rate on the continent, Nairobi is not a relaxed place in which to clear customs with a load of plastic suitcases filled with movie-camera equipment and reels of film.
And Tibby (Amber Tamblyn) is a blue-haired cynic whose summer job at a superstore named Wallman's is paying for video equipment to make her first film.
Do you know that 10, 468 kilograms of equipment was sent to Croatia to film parts of Game of Thrones?
Beholden to equipment makers, they sent off film in envelopes and returned prints days later, offering a thin range of service and price.
But it turns out that buried in archives around the world were hundreds of hours of film footage shot in color, despite the then-cumbersome equipment.
What I don't anticipate is the arrival of Belgian police who announce that if either my colleague or I photograph or film the body, we will be arrested, our camera equipment impounded and - possibly - the archaeological dig closed down.
Since there are so few digital cinemas--even theaters showing Episode II in digital have been loaned the equipment--the movie must to transferred from digital to plain old film.
Among the alleged baits recently used to separate unwary investors from their funds: film deals, 19th-century railroad bonds, gold mines, iron mines, equipment leases, "medium-term notes, " greeting card manufacturing, a board game teaching investors how to get wealthy and even Mormon church financings.
The first phase of the solar mission stipulated that solar farm operators using silicon wafers should only buy made-in-India versions of this equipment but allowed them to import other forms of technology, including thin-film cells.
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