VENT! Magazine

Independent filmmaking is booming, and the explosion has left many an indie filmmaker writhing in its aftermath. More independent films (especially low and no budgets) have been made in the past five years than have been produced in the previous twenty-five years.

Here is the no-punches-pulled, no-bullshit place to vent all your frustrations about the medium we, as filmmakers, so passionately embrace. This is the online magazine to bitch and moan about everything in this biz that vexes us, and to share with fellow film and video makers advice on what to do and what to avoid. Here we can benefit from each other's experiences, or inexperience, with major studios, production companies, producers' reps, distributors, exhibitors, film festivals, attorneys, agents and critics. It is not meant to discourage or bum out struggling filmmakers. Rather, it is a reality check for us, to show all indie filmmakers that we're not alone in our efforts to get our films made and seen, and that, in this ever-morphing industry, there often are no hard and fast rules to succeed. It might not make us feel any better to learn there are so many of us striving to be noticed, but it is our hope VENT! will rouse support and spark ideas among the independent filmmaking community.

VENT! is group therapy for down-but-not-yet-out movie makers.

If you are an indie filmmaker who has produced a film and can't get it sold or screened, or if you're an aspiring filmmaker who can't get your film financed, or if you're someone who wants to "let 'em have it" in the motion picture business, or if you just want to tell it like it is, write to VENT! about all your trials, troubles and tribulations.

e-mail: editor@ventfilm.com

"I'm shocked when I read things calling the new generation slackers or Generation X. This is a great, great generation. They are totally passionate about the cinema, the law, cooking. And there is no place for them."

- Francis Ford Coppola

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