The Circuit

Anthony Kaufman talks with Lance Hammer about pulling "Ballast" from IFC:

"IFC is a really good company," Hammer told indieWIRE last week. "The problem is the larger issue that's plaguing every filmmaker right now: The distributors don't really offer any money. That's not that big of a deal if they would allow you to have control of your project, but they don't."

Interesting that Hammer wants to distribute the film old-school style - via the traditional art film circuit of "film societies, museums and universities."  And he's raising the P&A himself:

He's putting together $250,000, he said, with the help of the same people who financed the film. "Just a couple years ago, filmmakers would be offered a bigger MG and more money for P&A; now the advance is gone and the amount given to P&A is nothing," Hammer said, adding, "I think P&A should be put in the production budget."