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Indie filmmakers must get creative with financing

Published November 22, 2008, 12:23 pm, Los Angeles Times

As banks increasingly opt out of funding, directors are using new ways to raise revenue to make movies. Wanted: 1,700 brave investors each willing to shell out $30 for a credit as a co-executive producer on an independent movie about New York's illegal graffiti street-art scene. The reward: striking a "blow for artistic freedom."

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