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Navigating a New World

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Shilpi Roy needed to make something. She had spent over $100,000 to get through USC’s graduate film program, and what did she have to show for it? Nothing–except a handful of three-year-old student films and some videos she’d edited for Playboy TV and Brave New Films. “The whole point of being a filmmaker is to make things,” Roy says, and “I hadn’t made anything in a long time.”

Unfortunately, making films requires money, and Roy’s online editing jobs weren’t leaving her flush with cash. She wanted to make something of quality, but she needed to do it quickly and cheaply, which pretty much ruled out TV or features. “With ...

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