SEPTEMBER 30-OCTOBER 5, 2001
"It used to be, the highest mountain to climb was making the film. Now it's trying to distribute it." The words of Peter Broderick, president of Next Wave Filmsand one of the many prominent guests at this year's Independent Feature Project Market in New York, sum up both the spirit and effort animating the week-long event.
Just three weeks after the September nth attack left the World Trade Center in ruins, the acrid burning odor hung in the air outside the Market's Houston Street venues, the Angelika Film Center and the Puck Building. Inside, about twenty-five hundred participants and representatives from over two hundred film-related …