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It’s hard enough making a low-budget, independent film.

Getting somebody to watch it is even harder.

And actually making money from it? In your dreams.

The long-established business model for indie film — get the movie into a festival, attract a distributor who’ll book it into theaters — has all but vanished.

“The environment is toxic for true independent films,” Mark Lipsky, president of tiny New York-based distributor Gigantic Cinema, told me in a recent phone conversation.

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