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The Father and The
Bear is his most recent of
five micro-budget projects
that have earned him an
impressive number of film
festival awards around
the globe. The Route 30
Trilogy of films received
47 festival awards and cult
Mojave Phone Booth
nabbed 15 awards over its
51 official FF selections
He follows his personal indie
filmmaker rules -- budget
under $100,000; maximum
crew of eight; equipment
must fit in one car and SUV;
actors responsible for their
own wardrobe/appearance;
shot in less than 18 days.
"Big budget projects rely
on big names, elaborate
special effects and
an obscene marketing
drive or providing extra
storage.
For every film, he uses new
hard drives because for him,
reusing/overwriting a drive
is a false savings and isn't a
risk that even the indie film
maverick wants to take.
"I have an offsite backup
of every project I've
done," he said. "And every
4 or 5 years, I copy the
projects to a fresh drive.
It's just cheap insurance
every filmmaker should
have - studio or indie."
High-resolution, multi-
camera images increase the
demand for high-capacity
storage and entrusting
the content to the cloud is
certainly an option.
budget," Putch explained.
"We rely on the tools
every Indie filmmaker
can use and the creative
talents of all of the
people involved. It's all
about the story."
Post Work - Back in his
Studio City, CA home/post
production facility, John
Putch puts the finishing
touches on "The Father
and The Bear" before
placing it with Vimeo On
Demand and beginning
the promotion of the film.
For production, Putch uses
an OWC Drive Doc that he
calls a HD toaster dock.
The dock enables him to
add and remove drives for
maintaining multiple drive
backups, cloning a hard
We'd probably be a little
more comfortable with it if
streaming service guardians
weren't so tired of fighting off
the pirates that they decide
to relabel the lost income as
market research or audience
testing.
Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO;
and Jeff Bezos, Amazon
CEO; would probably prefer
to invest that lost income into
something like oh … new
original content.
But they just do their best
to protect the content they
acquired from indies, fight
the good fight and agree with
Lt. Col. Bill Cage, "We've
been through worse."
It's a battle today's filmmaker
can't afford to be in again
and again.
