>
>That's also the indie approach to film to. Everything costs a
>certain amount of money, and a filmmaker is 8 times out of 10
>going to have outside investors (even the major studios). For
>every passionate dreamer yearning to pour their heart in soul
>into their "pet project", there's a business partner who has
>to find ways to realistically make that shit happen.
>
>People don't just make movies because they have "stories to
>tell"; they make movies because they have _compelling_ stories
>to tell that they believe X amount of people will see in order
>for their film to at least make its costs back. Otherwise,
>they're going to end up in debt very, very soon, with some
>angry investors - and this happens all the time, even with
>films people think will work.
>

All well & good, but the original claim was that american blk films don't do well overseas

The point is that that's a very biased, limited view, in the context of blk film audiences & story lovers worldwide

The Numbers on bootlegged blk films in Africa are no doubt huge


>>>>
>>>>digital content available to a hundred million blk folk
>>>>globally is a very different model
>
>Netflix only has 48 million subscribers worldwide in 40
>countries. And unless you're only streaming the content on
>YouTube or some amatuer video service, you're still dealing
>with issues of cost and revenue (how much will the streaming
>service pay us to make this movie/these episodes vs. our cost
>per episode).



>
>Netflix is not yet available in Africa - or Asia or Australia

There it is

>>
>Are they interested _only_ in this content to the point that
>they'll either only pay for this service or pay double/triple
>to get all of the streaming content?

Well according to the okp poll results, no. But these are the same ppl that buy $900 vacuum cleaners

>
>>vs netflix n*1000 users, who may or may not be interested,
>so
>>netflix has all the bargaining power
>
>This would presume few black people watch Netflix, or that
>Netflix (of all companies) doesn't understand market
>specialization.

Na, just that theyve positioned themselves to where they may or may not give u a fair price for content