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Reflecting on 33 Years of “Filmmaker” and Independent Film
In 2017, for the 25th anniversary of Filmmaker, we commissioned a radical redesign and also initiated a new upfront section: Reflections. For four issues, we published pieces looking back at the history of the magazine as well as ones that meditated anew on its enduring concerns: the struggles of early career filmmakers, changing models of independent producing, the role of print magazines in a digital culture, shifting definitions of the word “independent.” When our anniversary year was over, I decided to keep the section, reasoning that “reflections” didn’t have to refer just to the past; reflections can radiate towards the […]
