Mumblecore

1. Many mumblecore filmmakers have deep roots with the SXSW Festival, many have premiered or have had films in the festival at some point, many met each other there, the phrase mumblecore was coined at a bar during the festival and Swanberg and co. helped create promotional shorts that played before each feature this past year.

2. Mumblecore contains improvised dialogue, naturalistic performances by non-actors, handheld verite-style digital camerawork and long takes. Budgets are small. The films are reflections on the filmmakers personal life, mostly with white, educated, creative, sensitive, and sincere characters who struggle to communicate in this digital age.

3. Charges against mumblecore are mostly based on the central conflicts found within many of the stories. Many of the problems are small and everyday and the tone often comes off as pretentious.

4. The internet has allowed people to find mumblecore movies like one would find a good indie band. You find movies you like and y delving deeper you find similar artists that you enjoy and wish to support and in turn give money to in order to see more works later.

5. The negative consequences of the definition of mumblecore is that it is inaccurate. The label focusing on things within the movies that are without weight in the movie.

6. Day-and-date distribution means that IFC released Hannah for downloading the same day of its theatrical release.

7. The objection is that Pioneer legitimized these films first and why do these art films need IFC to legitimize them anyway.

Those last two I'm not so sure on.