This fact has alienated both the core professional industry and those trying to sell decent films.It has lowered the craft of film making standards and made a distributors job much harder.
Most festivals don’t even bother opening all the entries there’s so many these days and same with the distributors,so still good films get missed as they cant afford the advertising to get there film seen amongst all the clutter..

There’s little money to be made on internet unless you are doing three minute You Tubes(mostly poorly made craft wise) as the download platforms simply aren’t paying yet,so why sell them the film! This is a profession not a hobby. If you want good product,pay for it.
.
DVD revenue is still okay but which distributor or professional film maker can afford the advertising since all the papers and elsewhere bumped up ad budgets as the rich corporations will pay those rate. Even the discount rates on offer at major newspapers are ridiculous- 35000 for a quarter page..Professional film makers and distributors have trouble even paying 1000 per ad run… Tough time for industry.
People want cheaper entertainment like movies in a recession..but how to hear of the good stuff?.
There’s few distributors ,if any ,other than the studio indie arms,with any money to take the risk to put the good films in cinemas -only a select few…And the rest have to compete with low brow stuff……tough.You make a good picture…well received and it gets swamped by high ad budgets, lack of distributors with any money to do their job well..And festivals don’t really help other than giving a bit of PR to that particular region,.but then you have to pay to enter and costs of being there. Even if the festival pays,it still mounts up.Too many festivals costing film makers too much,making money for themselves(tho Sundance started with good intent to the industry years ago but many towns just see a cash cow for themselves), and delivering very little in terms of business.

Same with award shows.The public thinks they are freee..Many are not..they can cost hundreds to thousands to enter(and the hig costs excludes some very good films as film as with all arts,cant be quantified by how much money an individual has))..so many films get left out.The Indepdent Film Awards costs about 400 to enter.A lot of money when you’ve already had to pay advertising,marketing, festivals, etc. I know one film that had better reveiws than all the nominees and winners…it couldnt afford the entrance fees.

This,everyone has has alienated both the core professional industry and those trying to sell decent films.It haslowered the craft of film making standards and made a distributors job much harder. most festivals dont even bother opening all the entries theres so many these days and same with the distrbutors…so stilll good films get missed as they cant afford the advertising to get there film seen amongst all the clutter.. Theres little money to be made on internet unless you are doing three minute You Tubes(mostly poorly made craft wise) as the download platforms simply arent paying yet.
DVD revenue is still okay but which distrbutor or professional film maker can afford the advertsing since all the papers and elsewhere bumped up ad budgets as the rich corporations will pay those rate. Even the discount rates on offer at major newspapers are riduclous- 35000 for a quarter page..Professional film makers and distributors have trouble even paying 1000 per ad run… Tough time for indsutry.
People want cheaper entertainment like movies in a recession..but how to hear of the good stuff?.Theres few distributors ,if any other than the studio indie arms,with any money to take the risk to put them in cinemas -only a select few…and the rest have to compete with low brow stuff……tough…you make agood picture…well recieved and its gets swamped by high ad budgets, lack of distrubtors with any money to do their job well..and festivlas dont really hlep toher thna giving a bit of pr to that particualr area..but then you ahve to pay to enter and costs of being there…even if the festival pays..it still mounts up.too many festivals costing film makers too much and delivering very little in terms of business.