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He singled out directors who have reached beyond the navel-gazing confines common to some microbudget fare.

BAM Gives a Megaphone to Cinema's Quieter Voices Steve Dollar 2011

He even turns that microbudget albatross—the handheld shaky-zoomy camera—into a clever narrative device, using crisp, comic ellipsis and John Medeski 's jazz-piano score to keep things playfully off-balance.

Documentary Dramas and Communist Comedies Steve Dollar 2011

He singled out directors who have reached beyond the navel-gazing confines common to some microbudget fare.

BAM Gives a Megaphone to Cinema's Quieter Voices Steve Dollar 2011

Mr. Tully's mind raced with details and anxieties—not least taking the pivotal role in his film when he'd never acted before, plus the added pressure of shooting in the Super 16 format rather than the microbudget standard of high-definition video.

BAM Gives a Megaphone to Cinema's Quieter Voices Steve Dollar 2011

Mumblecore, the flippant term for any number of recent microbudget American independent films that favor low-key realism over technical fireworks, has come home this month to the place where it began.

Mumblecore Realism in the Age of Technology Richard B. Woodward 2011

Mr. Tully's mind raced with details and anxieties—not least taking the pivotal role in his film when he'd never acted before, plus the added pressure of shooting in the Super 16 format rather than the microbudget standard of high-definition video.

BAM Gives a Megaphone to Cinema's Quieter Voices Steve Dollar 2011

I personally think EVERY filmmaker should take a jab at Transformers 2 when promoting their movies, even if it's a microbudget Finnish drama set in a fish hatchery.

Producers of The Dark Knight and The International Reform Voltron | /Film 2009

At Telluride I got my first glimpse at Paranormal Activity, the $11,000 microbudget Blair Witch-style POV haunted house indie which scared audiences at Slamdance.

Fantastic Fest Video Review: Paranormal Activity | /Film 2009

Box-office experts say within the last decade, no other microbudget film has come close to "Blair Witch's" success.

CNN Transcript Oct 20, 2009 2009

It was a microbudget (make that "no-budget") straight-to-video zombie flick that was pretty awful, but only because they made us take all the humor out of it and replace it with stuff like killing and blood and gore.

Wired Top Stories 2009