STORY Wamego Strikes Back is the sequel to the award-winning documentary “Wamego: Making Movies Anywhere.” The first installment covered the making of the independent Kansas-made feature Firecracker,” which starred Karen Black and Mike Patton. “Firecracker” went on to win numerous awards and was named on Roger Ebert’s list of 2005’s best films. Wamego Strikes Back is both a documentary on the oft ignored world of indie film distribution and a pep talk to like minded filmmakers who feel strangled in the age of the bloated Hollywood monopoly, gazillion dollar budgets, shoddy distributors and even shoddier financiers. Not a traditional Making of starts where most Making ofs end; with the selling and promotion of the movie; a crucial process in the production of a feature whose importance is rarely discussed. The DVD features Karen Black, Eric Sherman, Clark Balderson, Steve Balderson, Mike Patton, Amy Kelly, Pleasant Gehman, Mink Stole, with over an hour of bonus material including deleted scenes and outtakes from Firecracker. REVIEWS: Hell, pure hell Its a fun ride a fast paced and interesting doc insight on the hard truths… Jeremy Knox , Film Threat Engaging, funny and painful… much more open than the previous chapter. Adam Barnick, E-Insiders Another interesting subject for a documentary would be about how the film industry is elitist, disorganised and has no capacity for nurturing real talent, that it is a monolithic and archaic machine where its executives are too …
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