Crowley, like many digital filmmakers, is making movies first and then shopping them around to distributors and investors in the hope of having them put on film for theater releases. If his film does not find a distributor, he added, he will try to raise the money to transfer it to 35-millimeter film. He also agrees that digital's lower production costs are opening up the medium. The technology is making it possible for filmmakers to operate more like painters and other artists, first producing their works and then presenting them to the marketplaces of the world. In Hollywood, filmmakers must first present their ideas and then try to secure financing.
Digital technology means another change as well.
Very few in Hollywood ever do. Increasingly, black and Hispanic filmmakers in particular are looking at computers and software as an alternative means of producing their work. He said he planned to do more with digital.