Description:
With chapters on under-explored cinemas as well as traditional centres, Independent Filmmaking around the Globe explores how contemporary independent filmmaking increasingly defines the global cinema of our time.
Brief description:
Doris Baltruschat is a research fellow and instructor in the Department of Theatre and Film and the Centre for Cinema Studies at the University of British Columbia. A former juror for the Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund, she has extensive professional experience in the film and television sectors.
Review Quotes:
'Independent Filmmaking is an indispensable resource, and it would also be an excellent text for a survey of new international cinema.... Highly recommended.'
--W. W. Dixon, Choice Magazine vol 53:01:2015'It is not only one of my favourite film studies readings for the year 2015, but a very helpful and fundamental anthology to assist teaching courses of related topics.'
--Luis Rocha Antunes, Limina: A Journal of Historical & Cultural Studies vol 21:02:2016