Independent Media Reviews (IndieMR), originally Independent Movie Review, came about because as founder Kevin Lapsley was preparing to launch his independent movie, “The Last One?“, he kept running into the same problems over and over in regards to getting some initial publicity going.
The problems the movie was having related to nobody wanted to review the movie because reviews were only being written for main stream movies in theaters and for those “independents” that had multi-million dollar budgets and or “A” list actors.
As independent producers we are all well aware that producing content is a passion and a business. And also, as most of us don’t have major distributors blowing up our dm’s with “please contact me” we are left to either give up the dream or to navigate the self-distribution waters by ourselves.
With all of the viable options out there these days for getting projects made and distributed on our own we continue to fight the good fight but unless you “know a guy” who has a cousin who works for an urban arts scene paper (or podcast) you’re not getting a review and that’s why IndieMR was created.
