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This is a new way of making and distributing movies that I am practicing with my new movie The Secret Society For Slow Romance - a comedy that had to be made in a very minimalist way during the pandemic of 2020. What was caused by necessity may actually be an interesting and effective way to make and distribute a movie. I call it the Individual Filmmaker Project method. Basically we bring the entire filmmaking and distribution, marketing, sales operation down to one person - primarily - the filmmaker. So it is similar to an artist making and selling a painting, a writer writing and publishing a book - so on... The method - the filmmaker produces, writes, shoots, edits, directs the movie.  And in my case I also acted in the movie - as one of the two actors.  And the filmmaker submits the movie to festivals, comes up with a distribution strategy - carries it out - working with interested festivals, indie theaters, getting the film on VOD, making and selling Blu-rays, and workin...

New teaser trailer - The Secret Society For Slow Romance (2021) movie - from 3.6.21 from Sujewa Ekanayake on Vimeo .

 From The Slowdown podcast at Kicking the Seat

Check out the interview here . We discuss the new Vice President Kamala Harris, ties to South Asia.  Also we discuss the making of The Secret Society For Slow Romance in 2020, during the pandemic.  And we discuss several movies from 2020.

" Ian and Sujewa conclude their look at Richard Linklater's "BEFORE Trilogy" with a sobering review of BEFORE MIDNIGHT. The 2013 drama finds lovers of happenstance Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Céline (Julie Delpy) married with children and trying to salvage their rocky relationship in a Grecian paradise."

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 Check out the interview by Jordan Cronk here -  https://www.patreon.com/posts/45621935

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