Azazel Jacobs directed this maudlin yet feel-nothing feature, which risks giving independent filmmaking a bad name.

NEWYORKER: Momma's Man

As cutesy as any Hollywood romantic comedy and shallower than many, this low-budget production turns the scruffy intimacy and youthful quandaries of independent filmmaking into a trademark.

NEWYORKER: Breaking Upwards

This amazingly accomplished first feature by Ronald Bronstein, made with a crew of four for seemingly little more than the cost of film stock, throbs with the energy and vision that independent filmmaking is all about.

NEWYORKER: Frownland

But independent filmmakers and producers started moving west when Thomas Edison, the inventor who owned patents on filmmaking technologies, began imposing fees.

BBC: Search the

It is just as important to infuse this ideal and goal into narrative film, animation, digital media, television and theater classes (whether mainstream or independent) as much as for documentary classes, an area often thought of as the primary domain for social impact filmmaking.

FORBES: Connect