I was honoured to be on Mtume Gant’s podcast recently, and we had an excellent and wide-ranging conversation about the term “indie.” I’ve written about the farce of “independent” publishing in several places, here most recently. Mtume, who teaches film production at Purchase College, has written and spoke about what that term means in a studio system where it’s increasingly impossible to produce work without at least millions of dollars of funding. You can listen to the episode here: do support Mtume’s Patreon in any way you can. He’s one of the rare voices willing to voice the kinds of opinions we don’t often hear, in an increasingly flattened media and arts landscape.
