11.   Dorff plays the titular independent filmmaker who kidnaps Griffith in the name of art.

12.   For two or three years, independent filmmakers got either no response or an endless runaround from WNET, Ms. Lerner said.

13.   For the past three years, independent filmmaker Spike Lee says he has been trying to do a movie about the life of Jackie Robinson.

14.   For years, hundreds of struggling independent filmmakers have trooped to a sprawling oceanfront tent in Santa Monica to celebrate their often edgy and uncommercial movies.

15.   Frommer said pending legislation would guarantee a fund for independent filmmakers, with the intention of reducing the cost of loans to lenders who finance independent films.

16.   Henry Jaglom may be the only truly independent filmmaker in America.

17.   If opportunities for independent filmmakers are slim, those for independent women filmmakers are slimmer yet.

18.   If Hollywood was going to ignore or misrepresent the gay life, then these independent filmmakers would step in to set the story straight.

19.   In December, the Small Business Administration began offering government-guaranteed backing for commercial loans to small independent filmmakers.

20.   Indeed, says Zollo, it is the growing importance of independent filmmakers and distributors that explains the increase in theater-based movies.