by Brian » Sun Mar 18, 2012 9:39 am
Technically, an indie is any movie made outside of the studio system. There are different levels of indie movies. At the top of the indie ladder are movies made by respected production companies like Focus Features. These are larger budget indie movies (still low budget by studio standards) that usually have distribution locked in before being made. Then you have what I call film festival indies, high quality but very low budget movies that typically look for distribution at film festivals. Lower on the ladder are low budget, low quality movies that are meant to be released straight to DVD, such as low budget horror movies.
One more UW should be enough to finish the series. I hope they end UW when Kate no longer wants to be a part of it. It would be unfortunate if Lakeshore decides to keep it going by releasing straight to DVD, the way some movie series, such as Hellraiser, have done.