Streaming fatigue is real, and it's creating an unexpected opportunity for independent filmmakers. While everyone's chasing the latest streaming platform deal, smart indie creators are quietly making serious money with something that seems almost retro: DVDs. Here's the thing: audiences are getting overwhelmed by endless scroll menus and subscription costs piling up every month. Meanwhile, you can sell a DVD for $38.75 on average versus $20 for digital downloads. Do the math: just 2,500 DVD...

“Is the film industry dying?” “Is cinema dead?” “Is Hollywood over?”I don’t think so. What I think is that, when we need to sell tickets to everybody and use algorithms to shape movie-making, we end up with a flood of movies that are all very much the same. And when experiences are more or less the same, they lose not just their appeal but their attractiveness. When it’s all the same, they all fade. When we focus only on the bottom line at the end of each quarter, we get not black or white,...

"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." - Henri Bergson, French Philosopher 1859 -1941 When you see that very famous blue box from Tiffany's, you are pretty sure that there will be something impressive within it.   Now take that same impressive present and put in it another box, not bright blue, but any other color and perhaps the box is dented in some way.  What if I put an ordinary piece of costume jewelry in the blue box, and the priceless gem in the other box. Perhaps...