studio system
How a movie gets made interdependently
What to do
When to start
We host a regular series of pre-production, production, and post-production and studio events on Plots. This includes everything from screenplay submission and signing events, to live and remote auditions, networking, ceremonial and celebratory events for attaching producers, directors, cast & crew.
Where it all comes together
The release of every one of our movies will begin in the homes and hometown theaters of the studio and production team. INTERDEPENDENT members will host live streamed in-person watch party events simultaneously around the world, and sell tickets to these events to the public exclusively on Plots. Everyone, including cast & crew and their friends and family will see the film for the first time together in this special "avant-première" experience. Friends of INTERDEPENDENT on Plots can also request to be approved to co-host an "avant premiere" event alongside studio and production members. You must have the Plots iOS app to request to become a co-host.
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Everyone, we hope!
Right now, subscribers to our 100M film fund, INTERDEPENDENT Ventures Fund I, will finance the majority of our first slate of features. As a result, these passive investors will take home the lion's share of the financial profits from these first films.
However, there is also a growing number of Executive Producers who contribute both their time and money to actively participate in production decisions. This group of individuals will ultimately be who profit most from the economic success of INTERDEPENDENT Pictures. Anyone attached to a production in any other role, or anyone who has read one of our screenplays and is willing to put their money where their mouth is, can become an INTERDEPENDENT Executive Producer. email: chris@interdependent.studio
For posterity's sake, we hope it is all of us as audience members who will truly profit the most from this system. It is designed to deliver only those movies artists care enough about to take a risk on themselves, working together with the audiences and investors who support them. It is this spirit of interdependence that is the cornerstone of what we believe will drive profit for everyone well into the future.
Anything that can put the power to produce blockbuster movies in the hands of people with a passion for storytelling is a good thing!
We’re reducing production costs in a number of ways already to meet this goal, and would love to have AI bring the production risk of feature films as close to zero as possible.
What matters more to INTERDEPENDENT is the problem we face with the algorithms that connect us as humans to the ways we spend our time and attention. Today, most of us search for something to watch nearly every night on Netflix and every other streamer, but rarely are we satisfied anymore. Watching what’s recommended on YouTube or infinitely scrolling social media doesn’t help. Seemingly never do we walk away thinking that was time well spent!
So, at INTERDEPENDENT, we worry less about AI creating the possibility of more movies getting the chance to be made by more people (that's a good thing). Instead, our attention is focused on building and getting to know audiences better than anyone else, and how best to power that connection between artists and audiences in a way that will bring more meaning to all our lives.
Everyone has their role, but not every role is for everyone!
From our writers, directors, actors and producers, or grips, gaffers and costume designers, to every other collaborator still required today to play a part in the making of an INTERDEPENDENT Picture, we demand a high degree of competence, conscientiousness, and an extraordinary level of openness, along with a true passion for what you do. It would't be worth the risk (or half as much fun) without the kind of people at your side that embody these traits and make the work worth the while. Click this link and send us a message at the bottom if this sounds like you.
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All proceeds benefit the premiere of Studio 1 and Studio 1 Productions as a CATALYST crowdfunding contribution.