I agree that the key word is "distribution". That's ultimately where the money is coming from and it's a tough market out there. Unless the front cover of your film packaging looks like Die Hard 7 then you're gonna have a tough time of selling it. It's literally as shallow as that. You don't think they do something as clever as actually watching it before they decide whether to buy it do you? ;)
There may be new ways of distributing films in the coming years, in which case the game will change significantly for the benefit of independent productions. Maybe that's a good thing for us, or then again, maybe it isn't. It could really open up the market for low budget effects and that's when jobs will really start going to Asia. On 26 February 2013 at 21:23 Sebastien Sterling <sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com> wrote: > It would be great if Europe got its own feature film industry, at the moment > i'm working at a feature film company in belgium tailoring its product for an > American audience (setting humour narrative structure), they don't get it, you > don't sell America to America, i understand why they want to do this, its the > best market, its the widest distribution, one language one set of codes and > regulations. Europe on the other hand is loads of different languages ideals > histories, you can't homogenise a product as easily. France has some of the > best and most prominent animation schools in the world, but no feature film > industry, remarkable studios like Nest make amazing pitches for films that > seldom seem to go beyond the pilot stage, England is the VFX backyard of the > world. there is amazing potential here for such an industry, i feel that > having an overseas competition would be a good thing to vitalise the industry. > maybe i'm being naive or idealistic :) >
