The money slowdown hurts independent producers the most, but it's even being felt at the studio level.
But independent producers such as Endemol are looking for ways to make money out of new services.
The smaller independent producers banded together to make a few quality movies each year, largely for art-house audiences.
But in parts of Africa, Russia and Australia, Potash faces many independent producers as well as government enterprises.
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For all this, thank technologists and engineers, and thousands of small, independent producers.
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Gottsch lowered his sights, cutting production costs by working with independent producers and pitching the network to satellite channels instead.
Iestyn Garlick, chairman of the Welsh independent producers organisation TAC, said they welcomed assurances about S4C's editorial and managerial independence.
The awards, in 16 categories, were voted for by members of the independent producers' organisation, Pact, and presented by comedienne Jenny Eclair.
Commercial broadcasters and independent producers argued it would help pay for programmes.
All of the major oil and gas companies have thousands of employees in the city, and many of the larger independent producers are headquartered here.
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Its professional video equipment can be found in top Hollywood studios as well as on the lots of independent producers up and down the food chain.
This social capitalism is driven by collaboration and sharing, by the replacement of command and control by self-organising ecosystems of independent producers of software, apps and even components.
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The picks buck conventional wisdom that Hollywood these days prefers action spectacles and series, leaving more-serious films to independent producers, from whom they may occasionally buy distribution rights.
The lack of standard broadcasting equipment has so far prevented Caribbean independent producers from competing with foreign programming, as well as from gaining access to the international market.
The smaller independent producers are outrageously well-rewarded for their troubles.
Ascent Media, which provided content and creative services to major motion picture studios, independent producers, and broadcast networks, is 30% owned by Liberty Media Chairman and CEO John Malone.
For example, most movie studios are collaboration organizations, partnering with independent producers to generate ideas, with technology companies to create special effects, and with advertising agencies to promote new releases.
As Charlie tells independent producers Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister, learning the story of just how his father became blind helped him grow closer to the old man, who spent much of his life absorbed in philosophical writings.
Surely, given the enormous blowback against SOPA (even from independent producers who stand to gain the most from its protections), and the equally fulsome resistance that would arise against a kinder, gentler Bride of SOPA, plus the time, expense and hardship that comes from criminal prosection of piracy generally, maybe anti-piracy education needs to be given a serious look in this country.
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That is, in effect, a gas-price guarantee, which should help independent Russian producers grow.
The fund also expanded its investment criteria from its smaller 2006 fund to include independent power producers.
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Small, independent oil producers tell CNN most people don't even know they exist.
Meanwhile independent power producers who want to build power plants, renewable or otherwise, can find bigger markets for their electrons.
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In fact, the Chavez government has mismanaged even this asset, and has done nothing to encourage Venezuelans to become independent wealth producers.
But the body representing Welsh independent TV producers is concerned at the BBC Trust's role in assessing S4C's performance and value for money.
Regulated utilities, which sell power to business and residential customers in defined geographic areas at negotiated rates, have been outperforming the companies, like independent power producers, that operate in unregulated markets.
Iestyn Garlick, chair of the Welsh independent TV producers' organisation TAC, said they welcomed changes to the proposed agreement, including an assurance over the importance of the independent sector in making programmes for the channel.
The idea was the vertically-integrated utilities that controlled both the generation and the transmission would be reluctant to allow newly-formed independent power producers the right to move electrons along their lines particularly because they had residential and business loads to serve.
Of course at the same time there are a bunch of other utilities, like AEP, along with independent power producers like NRG Energy and renewable advocates like the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), who want badly to get the grid up and running.
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But independent filmmakers and producers started moving west when Thomas Edison, the inventor who owned patents on filmmaking technologies, began imposing fees.
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