Indiewood

The American independent film, prior to the 1980s and first half of the 1990s,), social and political documentaries, experimental animated shorts (since the mid-1930s featuring works by pioneer animators Mary Ellen Bute and Oskar Fischinger) and social realist dramas. Throughout the middle of the 1990s, the word "Indiewood" (a.k.a. "indie boom" or "indie film movement") ==Divisions==

Indiewood divisions gain from expert experience of the niche industry by hiring leading independent personalities such as Harvey Weinstein from the Disney fold after the exit of the Weinsteins from Miramax, at The Weinstein Company, and James Schamus, former joint head of Good Machine, at Focus Features. Other "mini-major" subdivisions/indie distributors • Searchlight Pictures • Fine Line Features (established by New Line Cinema) • Lionsgate • NEON • A24 • Paramount Vantage • Summit Entertainment • Orion Pictures • The Samuel Goldwyn Company • Samuel Goldwyn Films • Warner Independent Pictures • Picturehouse • United Artists (first founded in 1919 as an independent studio for former silent film stars like Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin) • Blumhouse Productions • Cannon Films • Sony Pictures Classics • Independent Film Company • Magnolia Pictures • Janus Films • Kino Lorber • Roadside Attractions • Bleecker Street • MUBI • Amazon Studios (in association with MGM) • Oscilloscope Laboratories • Miramax • The Weinstein Company • Focus Features • Good Machine • Castle Rock Entertainment Sources ==Differences from Hollywood==

The films are often made for far less money than Hollywood films ==List of selected Indiewood/Pre-Indiewood filmmakers==

• Julie Dash • Kathleen Collins • Lizzie Borden • Ryan Coogler • Ralph Bakshi • Don Bluth • Will Vinton • Suzan Pitt • Bill Plympton • Janie Geiser • John Canemaker • Joanna Priestley • PES • Jeff Nichols • Mike Nichols • Jim Jarmusch • John Cassavetes • Ron Rice • Herschell Gordon Lewis • John Sayles • Paul Thomas Anderson • The Great Dictator (1940)≈ • 3rd Ave. El (1955)≈ • The Screaming Skull (1958) • Moonbird (1959) • Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)≈ • Some Like It Hot (1959) • Psycho (1960)≈ • The Savage Eye (1960) • The Connection (1961) • Carnival of Souls (1962) • Vinyl (1965) • Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966) • The Wild Angels (1966) • ''David Holzman's Diary'' (1967)≈ • The Jungle (1967)≈ • Portrait of Jason (1967) • The Trip (1967)≈ • Wild 90 (1968) • Maidstone (1970)≈ • ''Let's Scare Jessica to Death'' (1971) • Sisters (1973) • Dark Star (1974) • Coney (1975) • Head (1975) • Gates of Heaven (1978) • Girlfriends (1978) • Asparagus (1979) • Bush Mama (1979)≈ • Friday the 13th (1980)≈ • Out of the Blue (1980)≈ • The Atomic Cafe (1982) • Illusions (1982) • Losing Ground (1982) • Smithereens (1982) • Born in Flames (1983) • Variety (1983) • The Killing Floor (1984) • Stranger Than Paradise (1984)≈ • This Is Spinal Tap (1984) • Blood Simple (1985)≈ • Desert Hearts (1985) • Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) • The Big Easy (1987) • Lady in White (1988) • ''Let's Get Lost'' (1988) • The Moderns (1988) • The Grifters (1990)≈ • ''Jacob's Ladder'' (1990)≈ • Pump Up the Volume (1990) • Sink or Swim (1990) • To Sleep with Anger (1990) • Wild at Heart (1990)≈ • Rambling Rose (1991) • The Rapture (1991) • Gas Food Lodging (1992) • Fresh (1994) • Go Fish (1994) • Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994) • Big Night (1996) • Schizopolis (1996) • New Rose Hotel (1998)≈ • The Spanish Prisoner (1998) • American Movie (1999) • Being John Malkovich (1999) • The Straight Story (1999) • George Washington (2000) • Shattered Glass (2003) • The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) • Napoleon Dynamite (2004) • Super Size Me (2004) • Crash (2005) • For Your Consideration (2006) • Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (2006) • The Painted Veil (2006) • Baghead (2008) • Fireproof (2008) • Frozen River (2008) • Synecdoche, New York (2008) • 500 Days of Summer (2009)≈ • Inglourious Basterds (2009) 2010s • Beginners (2010) • Damsels in Distress (2011) • The Tree of Life (2011) • ''It's Such a Beautiful Day'' (2012) • The Master (2012) • Paranorman (2012) • Nightcrawler (2014) • American Honey (2016) • Lady Bird (2017) • Waves (2018) • Uncut Gems (2019) • Kajillionaire (2020) • Zola (2020) • Summer of Soul (2021) • Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) • Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2022) • My Year of Dicks (2022) • Tár (2022) • Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project (2023) • Kokomo City (2023) == See also ==