🎬 Filmed freedom: when the budget dictates the screen
📅 Sunday, September 28, 2pm – Indie Cine Expo
🕒 Duration: 30 min

Stéphane Garrigues, an independent filmmaker since 2019, offers a rare, no-holds-barred talk on a central topic: the financial realities of independent cinema and the blurred but very real boundary between independent and professional cinema.

Through his own journey, he will explore:

• 💸 Financing mechanisms: how much does a film really cost? What are the costs? What support is available? And above all, why is it so complicated?
• ⚖ The concrete differences between independent and pro cinema: what means? what recognition? what obstacles?
• 🚫 Why does independent cinema, despite its creative richness, remain so undervalued compared to institutionalized cinema?

With a direct and transparent approach, Stéphane will also share:
👂 The importance of listening in all stages of a project: writing, production, collaboration
🎥 The feasibility conditions for an independent film today: organization, distribution, artistic and financial leeway

🎞 A dense and varied filmography, reflecting a free and daring cinema :

• 2020/2021: Hidden Package (feature-length crime film – script & direction)
• 2020 : Vent de folie (short film – direction, screenplay from a competition)
• 2021: Champagne (short film – script & direction)