Independent films or Indie Films sprouted due to the resistance to Motion Pictures Patent Company's Edison Trust formed in 1908. These films are usually low budgeted and out of the film making systems of Hollywood or the major film making consortium in a countryIndependent digital filmaking has been easier to do due the the large scale low cost cameras and equipments at the retail level, producers are no longer dependent to major studios to provide the necessary tools need to make a film.
Link: ashland independent film festival-- Ashland, Oregon 97520