It was never really great for indie directors anyway. Its a one in a million chance your microbudget gets some rich guy to say "ah what the hell I believe in this", but these days it may as well be one in a billion if you're not getting internet famous off of it
I remember reading the story of Linklater getting Slacker off the ground and it feels sad that the industry that let something like that happen is more or less gone. You need to go Viral to be an indie sensation and something like Slacker would never
My takeaway is a negative one: this tells me that Movies will soon learn the lesson of Music: they will no longer spend the time/money to DEVELOP new stars…they’ll shift that labor over to the creatives themselves, & only fund artists who’ve ALREADY created their own fanbases.