Last year Ted Hope wrote an article about bravery within indie film and put together a list of people and companies that he saw as brave in regards to saving or changing the game of what we know as truly free film. We were fortunate to have made that list with our Alpha project known as Biracy. It's now about 10 months later and we as a company have had time and resources to build out the next version of our engine that we intended to build for others to use. Along the way we have done a ton of research on the emerging leaders that we feel will augment our service and assist filmmakers with their individual projects.

Ted asked me if I would write a guest post for his blog, so here I am today providing you with a list of groups that we here at SoKap feel are the new brave souls for the 2011 list and beyond. Before I do this I want to define what we think it means to be brave in indie film as to provide a backstop for the groups we have chosen to highlight.

Bravery as we see it is anyone who stands up or defies convention. In this light we see technology as our focus and the groups that are making change to allow content creators to develop, produce, market and distribute content in a unrestricted manner, free of any third party obstacles and decision makers providing a bottleneck or hurdle. In our opinion if filmmakers were to use these systems they would truly have a sense of what their market was worth in very short order leaving no excuse to complain about the current and/or old system and how it is broken and restricting them from moving ahead as purveyors of the arts within the moving image. As we see it...the system is now wide open. So here is our list of companies in order by classification and process. 

Screenwriting - scripped

Breakdown - scenechronize

Storyboards - cinemek

Organization - basecamp

Legal - creative commons

Funding - kickstarter, Indiegogo, and us here soon at SoKap

Marketing - movieset, crowdcontrols, and any combination of the widely available social tools.

Distribution - dynamo player mobovivo & amazon cloud

Production tools I have left out as there are so many and for the most part, filmmakers already know of these options and are familiar with the tools that are available.

If any filmmaker were to use any combination of these they would find that the processes and technology provided to them would allow for absolutely no barriers to entry....other than the fact the audience may not be interested....but that's not anyone's fault but your own.

Good luck to everyone on their future endeavors and I hope to see some of your future projects on some form of screen in the future.