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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…