Indie Producers & Distributors

August 28, 2008 Mark Gill ran Warner Independent and now heads indie production startup the Film Department; Steve Golin founded management-production powerhouse Anonymous Content; Joe Neurauter's Occupant Films produces Sundance darlings like "The Wackness"; Endgame Entertainment's Jim Stern has made movies as diverse as "I'm Not There" and "Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle" (and even directed the 2006 political docu "So Goes the Nation"); and film finance attorney John Burke of Akin Gump has put together several billion dollars worth of deals in the past decade. In a freewheeling conversation with THR's Steven Zeitchik and Matthew Belloni, they expressed a mix of realism, optimism and uncertainty. [...] we're probably double what the films are that need to be in the marketplace.

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