First-Run Home Movies
Larry Meistrich on Film Movement
By Jennifer M. Wood
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/distribution/article/firstrun_home_movies_2629/
What does a producer do after finding tremendous success with more than 100 independent films and having served as the head of a top indie studio for more than 10 years? If you're Larry Meistrich, founder of the now-defunct Shooting Gallery and producer of such Oscar-nominated films as Sling Blade and You Can Count on Me, you could invent a whole new kind of distribution company and attempt to change the face of indie film exhibition.