'The Exiles' Is a Reminder of True Independent Film

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Once upon a time, an independent film was a gritty, edgy, highly individual work about human interaction. And it was often distinctive to the town or state or region where it was filmed.

The term "low-budget" meant it was made for just a few thousand dollars (often with the filmmaker maxing out credit cards or getting a second mortgage), it was often shot on 16mm film -- which gave it a grainy look, especially in night sequences -- and the naturalistic performances sometimes bordered on amateurish.

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'The Exiles' Is a Reminder of True Independent Film

But what they lacked in polish, these films made up for with heart, with a sense of realism, with stories and dialogue that audiences readily recognized, and, hopefully, with which they identified.

Today, an independen...

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