The Duplass Brothers define independence in filmmaking.
 There once was a time when the term “independent film” was connected with something underground, something raw, edgy, and new. The shots weren’t always perfect, but they were real. The storyline and ending of the film was never formulaic. You could just as easily walk out of the theater with a pleasant smile as you might with a horrible grimace of disbelief. The simple truth is that independent film fans wouldn’t have it any other way. This is the true meaning of art imitating life. Things in the real world don’t always end well.
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Austin Business Journal recently published a story on the upcoming vote in January 2009 in the Texas legislature for a bill that would increase the percentage of production incentives offered to film studios to shoot their projects in the state. This is a common practice these days as film production companies shop their hundreds of millions of dollars in production budgets around to decide where to film. The reason the states even care is because it is commonly understood that about half of a film or commercial's production budget will be pumped into the local economy. 