Hey. Writers. Don't Sell Your Baby. IndieGoGo it.

It had to happen. Reinvention of the movie industry.

The whole thing that kept movie studios going was Access to the Money, Contracts with the Actors, and Distribution. Did you see Steve Job's keynote address at Macworld? The new Air doesn't even have an optical drive. Stuff's going to stream on WiFi broadband in a rental model. Something that's been the logical next step for awhile.

Actors have been stepping out and looking at their own production companies for a while now. Some are doing it profitably, running real businesses and getting good scripts for themselves. For others it's just a vanity thing. But they're no longer behind an iron wall. With a little diligence, you can get to people.

The Money remained the hurdle. Unless you could find a group of dentists who wanted to be part of a glamourous Hollywood deal (and they're out there, those dentists) you were kinda screwed.

Enter IndieGoGo, which I've just read about. If this link times out, it went to a Reuters site. I don't know if they have Permalink.

Killer conceptual execution, a very graceful and well-written website. I prowled this little beauty today and threw up a couple things to hold my place while I try to think of how I wanted to use it. There was a group called "Inktip" a few years ago- I put my rom-com up there, some guy asked to see it, and "passed." Very strange to find a novel was "written" by someone in his state a year after that script had gone out, with one word changed in the title and a plot and subplot exactly like mine, except clunky where they changed some details.

The point is, keep your material and find your own money and actors. That's what most real creative types have always wanted anyway. Now with HD cameras, you can. But check out this site and see if it, or others that will likely spring up to copy it, work for you.