Independent Film Is Hollywood’s DNA...Not an Industry Trend

Independent Film Is Hollywood’s DNA...Not an Industry Trend

The argument for independent film for me is, first and foremost, that this whole town began as independent film. Fur merchants and dubious borrowers from New York banks came to the wilds and deserts and oceans of Los Angeles to escape Edison patent enforcers and disbelievers and whatever shaky personal histories they were running from on the East Coast. The photos of early LA tell the story. Pop into Edendale Grill in Silverlake and pause at the…