Another no-budget Hollywood success story is brewing. Following in the footsteps of filmmakers like Soderberg and Rodriguez, British Director Marc Price ‘financed’ his film out of pocket, mostly relying on help from friends and volunteers to complete his zombie feature.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/21/Colin/index.html
Like me, you may have never thought you would see the words “$70 zombie movie” and “Cannes” in the same sentence. A lot of people are making a big deal about how he arrived at that $70 price tag. Is it really fair to exclude the cost of everything people donated to the effort? However you add it all up, the newsworthiness of this story doesn’t lie in the budget alone. Rather, the message is this; You don’t have to spend $10 million, or even $10,000 to realize a vision worthy of Cannes. It’s a great testament to the power of tenacity.