Mark Lipsky

  • Film Piracy — or Why a Movie Is Like a Ripe Banana

    Instead of spending ridiculous amounts of time and money fighting the symptom, spend some time and a whole lot less money researching the disease

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    Mark Lipsky

  • That’s One Way to Get a Film Made

    Alexia Anastasio told renowned animator Bill Plympton she wanted to make a movie about him

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    Mark Lipsky

  • Feeding the Hunger for Filmmaking Advice

    An offer of help brings in an amazing screenplay that really must get made

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    Mark Lipsky

  • A Rush to the Graveyard: VOD

    Streaming is the future of digital delivery, not video-on-demand

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    Mark Lipsky

  • Hell on Earth: Independent Film, the Infomercial

    How have so many people been hoodwinked by Marc Rosenbush?

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    Mark Lipsky

  • Don’t Give Up Your Day Job! (If You Have One)

    Let’s reclaim the term “independent filmmaking” and return it to what it was meant to be

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    Mark Lipsky

  • The Myth of the “Indie” Film

    There was a time that Google was considered an upstart; a maverick search engine going up against the likes of Yahoo and Microsoft and a raft of other better known, better financed companies. Similarly, film distributors like Miramax, Vestron and October Films were scrappy mavericks going up against the major studios. They were underdogs. They…

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    Mark Lipsky