Independent Films
Test your knowledge of movies made outside the Hollywood system with this fun trivia game featuring independent films.
15 questions · Published April 18, 2022
Trivia questions (5 of 15)
- Multiple Choice
1. Since 1984, Film Independent has presented the Independent ______ Awards, honoring excellence among independent filmmakers.
The Independent Spirit Awards are typically presented shortly before the Academy Awards.
The trophy features a bird atop a pole wrapped by shoestrings, representing the minimal budget for most independent projects.
- Multiple Choice
2. Whose ownership of early filmmaking patents spurred independent minded filmmakers to move to Hollywood to avoid enforcement of patent violations?
Filmmakers who were declined or refused membership to the Motion Picture Patents Company subverted the system by building their own equipment and by moving to California... making it harder for New Jersey-based Thomas Edison, who owned most of the patents relating to motion pictures, to enforce them.
- Multiple Choice
3. What successful 1999 independent film helped revive and popularize the genre known as "found footage?"
Made for less than $1 million and featuring a publicity scheme that took advantage of the growing popularity of the Internet, "The Blair Witch Project" grossed nearly $250 million worldwide, making it one of the most successful independent films of all time.
- Multiple Choice
4. What pioneering producer of low-budget independent movies mentored future blockbuster directors such as Martin Scorsese and James Cameron?
Known as the "Pope of Pop Cinema," Roger Corman worked as a writer, producer, and director throughout the 1950s and 1960s.
Under his tutelage, filmmakers like Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard, Jonathan Demme, John Sayles, and Peter Bogdonavich got their starts. Corman also helped launch the careers of Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper, Sylvester Stallone, and William Shatner.
- Multiple Choice
5. What was the estimated shooting budget for 2013's "Satan, Hold My Hand," the only feature released by independent ASS Studios?
According to director and co-writer Courtney Fathom Sell, the estimated shooting budget for "Satan, Hold My Hand" was only $27.00. Sell also claimed that the money was mostly spend on alcohol and pizza for the cast.
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