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GREETINGS FROM the future of filmmaking. ?Right now, if you have a creative idea, you can produce i?

By Glenn Reynolds

GREETINGS FROM the future of filmmaking. “Right now, if you have a creative idea, you can produce it and get it to an audience for under a thousand dollars. Right now, you can get your very own HD video camera for about the cost of feeding one of those kids in Africa for two months. Right now, if you have a Mac, it ships with everything you need to cut and finish your story. Right now, you can have a screening for more people, more easily, than at any other time in history, and they don?t even have to be in the same room. In the 1960s, film stock, sound equipment, and cameras became (relatively) cheap and affordable. This put advanced tools into the hands of creative people, and lead to the greatest decade of filmmaking in history: 1970s. I think we?re poised for a similar revolution.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on June 27, 2009 (boomark / email).