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What Is Indie?
200647 min 58 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Dave Cool
Production: Dave Cool
Script: Dave Cool
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Independent artists in the music industry have more power and control over their careers than ever before. This documentary explores just what it means to be "indie."
The film features interviews with such indie music experts as Panos Panay (founder of Sonicbids), Derek Sivers (founder of CD Baby) and Suzanne Glass (founder of Indie-Music.com), as well as with 20 artists, including Ember Swift and Paul Cargnello.
Does being indie mean that you're unsigned, or that you're just not signed to a major record label? Is it possible to be indie on a major label? Taking a look at the changing music industry and its effect on independent artists, the film draws some surprising conclusions!
Subject categories
- Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism > Arts and CraftsAsian Origins
- Music > Musical Expressions
Credits
- writer
- Dave Cool
- director
- Dave Cool
- cinematographer
- Ian Graham
- editor
- Tim Rideout
- producer
- Dave Cool
- lighting
- Ian Graham
- Dave Cool
- sound
- Ian Graham
- Dave Cool
- graphics
- Tim Rideout
- post-production sound
- Tim Rideout
- graphic design
- Paul Cargnello
- participant
- Andrea Revel
- Annabelle Chvostek
- Athena Reich
- Bloodshot Bill
- Ember Swift
- Jasamine White-Gluz
- Jonathan Cummins
- Jean-François Fortier
- Kali
- Karyn Ellis
- Malcolm Bauld
- Matthew Large
- Mystic & Miranda
- Naila Keleta Mae
- NEeMA
- Paul Cargnello
- Paul Gott
- Penny Lang
- Steve Musil
- Jonah Aspler
- Tim Rideout
- David Laferrière
- David Wimble
- Daylle Deanna Schwartz
- Derek Sivers
- Leonardo de Luca
- Panos Panay
- Peter Spellman
- Suzanne Glass