Independent Filmmaking Around the Globe

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. Mary P. Erickson teaches in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon. She has worked as a publicist for the Northwest Film Forum in Seattle, a nonprofit film arts organization, as well as on several independent films.

• Foreword. Producing Independently in a Global Industry (David Hamilton)IntroductionChapter 1. The Meaning of Independence: Concepts, Contexts and InterpretationsDoris Baltruschat and Mary P. EricksonPart I: Independent Film vis À vis the Local and Global MainstreamChapter 2. An Increasingly Global Presence: Contemporary American Independent Cinema Outside the USYannis TzioumakisChapter 3. European Union Initiatives for Independent Filmmakers Across EuropeTeresa Hoefert de TurÉganoChapter 4. Dependency and Independence in British Independent FilmErik Knudsen Chapter 5. From Aussiewood Movies to Guerilla Filmmaking: Independent Filmmaking and Contemporary Australian CinemaMark RyanChapter 6. Independent Filmmaking in the Peruvian Context: Seeking MeaningGabriela MartÍnezPart II: The Meaning of Independence in Regions of Conflict and ChangeChapter 7. In the Shadow of the Studios, the State and the Multiplexes: Independent Filmmaking in GreeceLydia PapadimitriouChapter 8. Turkish Independent Cinema: Between Bourgeois Auteurism and Political RadicalismMurat AkserChapter 9. Filmmaking in Iraq: A RebirthMary P. EricksonChapter 10. The Grassroots Perspective: Sixth Generation Cinema and Independent Filmmaking in ChinaHongwei LuChapter 11. Independent Filmmaking in Africa: New Voices and ChallengesMartin MhandoPart III: Digital Media and the Independent VoiceChapter 12. Syiok Sendiri?: Independent Filmmaking in MalaysiaGaik Cheng KhooChapter 13. Independent Filmmaking in the Canadian ArcticDoris BaltruschatChapter 14. Digital Video Films as “Independent” African CinemaSheila PettyGlossaryFilmographyList of ContributorsBibliography

‘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)