You Need to Stop Imagining Gatekeepers and Take Control
Stop treating vanished external gatekeepers as permanent barriers; grant yourself permission to act, overcoming learned helplessness and the habit of waiting for approval.
Independent film faces persistent challenges in funding, distribution, marketing, audience discovery, and gatekeeping amid commercialization and algorithm-driven attention competition.
Institutional systems condition individuals to seek gatekeeper approval, creating a false permission dependency that obscures alternative paths to human flourishing.