The 9 Greatest Fan Films Ever Made
Although YouTube abounds with heaps of evidence to support the argument that cheap video equipment is dumbing down the world, wasting energy and killing creativity, there are plenty of works that suggest the opposite. The advances in fan films, for instance, are proof that new, cheaper technology levels the playing field in a productive way. Just look at Topless Robot’s listicle of The 9 Greatest Fan Films Ever Made, although we’d like to add Robin’s Big Date, a hilarious fan film whose creators managed to get Sam Rockwell on their set for a day:
[...] a good sidekick, as we noted yesterday with Robin’s Big Date, isn’t always the easiest task. You have to be prompt, reliable and yet sufficiently [...]
If you want to find out more about the world of fan films, you might want to check out my daily fan film blog, fancinematoday.com. Also, for what it’s worth, I wrote the first book about the history and future of fan films, Homemade Hollywood, which just came out in bookstores.