Even beyond Dogme 95, the 90s were such a great moment for independent and low-budget films.
And this was before the epoch of 24P and digital!
So indie and very low budget films should be much cheaper to make today than in that era of film.
But I feel like the innovation isn't there today, especially in America.
I feel like there should be a market for adult themed movies and writing. I know I am, and others are, hungry for such movies, and production quality doesn't have to be millions of dollars. The writing has to be very good, though.
Where is the Christine Vachon of this generation? Where are the low-budget indie production companies? Are we due for a renaissance here? Is it really just that no one cares about 2-hour films anymore, it's all content content content? (Hard to believe this, I feel the 3/multi-act dramatic experience is hard-wired in us, we need a return to cinema..)
I find this such a shame. I think this reflects an increasingly consumer versus producer aspect of culture. I find that desktop apps support and foster creativity, and producing readily manipulable creative artifacts - with speed. Sass/webapps/etc tend to foster consumer-oriented, indeed mobile, usage, creation and creative operations are often subtly high-latency and subsequently & so are tacitly discouraged while consumption is encouraged.