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I get the same question in my Quora notifications two or three times a week, phrased a dozen different ways: do AI filmmakers make money, where do you even post an AI-made series, is there a real platform for this yet. The honest answer is that almost none of the money in AI filmmaking right…

EDITOR’S NOTE:  This story details plot points from the movie “Digger” in a manner best consumed after seeing the movie yourself, if you intend to do so.

Research from USC Price School Professor Michael Thom has shown that state film tax credits have little to no impact on film employment and end up costing states. (Photo: iStock)

Making a movie is a harder task than ever. It’s even trickier when you’re not being bankrolled by a major studio that can afford to throw tens—if not hundreds—of millions of dollars at your passion project. As a result, it’s becoming trickier to see the stuff that young indie filmmakers toil away at for barely…

While some have welcomed the state initiative to introduce a voluntary pay cap for actors in midbudget Korean movies, others question whether it will have any real impact on revitalizing the domestic film industry.

Every independent filmmaker who gets into a festival faces the same math. A publicist runs a few thousand dollars. Press kits, social ads, after parties, travel for the team, and more rack up costs fast. For a single festival, expenses can run from a few hundred dollars to north of twenty thousand. The assumption underneath…