Image: poster for Richard Linklater’s Slacker, which was a micro-budget pioneer.
Open Channel’s Daniel Schultheis used his 2013 ISS Institute Fellowship to traverse Europe and the UK in search of development and production schemes to support micro-budget feature projects.
His ninety page report is now available. In the executive summary, he points out that, ‘For emerging and established filmmakers alike, a microbudget approach is well suited to particular types of stories – those with niche markets, and those, such as containment movies that are ‘written to scale. This turns financial constraints to a film’s creative advantage, at the same time more closely aligning a film’s budget to its earning potential.’
