71.   For years, the Sundance Film festival has billed itself as the premier showcase for independent filmmakers to compete for awards and studio acquisition.

72.   Hatta hopes to join the wave of independent filmmakers who have had unprecedented success with works about the largely unexplored experience of immigrant and minority women.

73.   If a strike is averted, times could also be tough for independent filmmakers, who worry about competing for screen space with a flood of big studio productions.

74.   Independent filmmakers drew laughs and a few bids at the first live movie auction, but failed to sell a single film.

75.   It has been said that this is the year of the independent filmmaker.

76.   It also heartened independent filmmakers.

77.   Like independent filmmakers who make movies for a fraction of the cost of Hollywood studios, Online Originals showed it could produce a good story on the cheap.

78.   Mick Jagger, independent filmmaker, sounds like any other producer at the Sundance Film Festival when he talks about the obstacles to capturing his story on celluloid.

79.   Now, Dryer is building on his foreign fame to carve out a new career as an independent filmmaker.

80.   The convention is promoting a Filmmakers of Tomorrow series that brings independent filmmakers together with video store owners.