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Low Budget does not mean films devoid of ideas or artistic
quality, it simply means films made with a restricted economy,
executed both in peripheral or underdeveloped countries as
well as in economic and culturally leading societies, whether
they're in official production programs or made in independent
or alternative environments.
Non-Budget Film Manifest.
1- The globalization
endeavor broadens the abyss between low budget and wealthy
films. This definitely rouses the danger of the implanting
of a unique model of thought, that sacrifices the diversity
and legitimacy of other national and cultural identities.
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Today, the technological revolution in films brings about
the means to oppose some resistance to this depersonalizing
project, while the new technical possibilities progressively
take strength, as is the case of digital video and its latter
enlargement to 35 mm, that considerably reduces the economic
process of film production.
3-
This results in a gradual democratization of this profession,
shaking off the elitist nature that has been the characteristic
of this art so unavoidably linked to industry.
4-
Encouraging and taking advantage of this reduction in production
costs will result in the immediate insertion of social groups
and communities that have never had access to film production,
and at the same time help emerging national cinematographies
endure.
5-
It would be a fundamental bastion in eluding the feeling of
helplessness that comes from the globalizing vandalism and
will once and for all legitimate the polyvalence in styles,
legacies and purposes which are not the property of any single
nation nor of a unique imposed conception of the world.
6-
For this to occur efficiently, one must knock down the wall
of distribution control by a single large group or transnational,
that generates the alienation of a public that does not have
access to the work of its national authors.
7-
This will allow us to fight against the wanton display of
violence that degrades audiences, especially the younger spectators.
8-
The gradual dis-alienation of the public will
only bear fruit if the different governments implant legal
actions to support the production and distribution of their
native film works.
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Then, we will be able to say that the barbaric age in filmmaking
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