This morning in IndieWire, Eugene Hernandez writes about Hard Facts and Cold Talk from the third FIND conference in LA. He writes that:

numerous participants publicly and privately speculated about the impact of a coming Writers Guild strike that could cripple mainstream moviemaking and everyone reiterated, over and over throughout the weekend, that there are simply too many movies being made and released today.

Well that is the problem isn’t it? But for sure it is not going away! In fact, we

at IndiePix estimate that there were about 3,500 festival qualified, juried films in the independent film community alone, and only in 2006! Hollywood has been stuck at about 200 films per year, so when the MPAA does their stats, the “other” category includes those indie films that get some distribution. But thousands, literally thousands, do not — and could. Even should! And that number is only going to go up!

What’s to be done? Well that’s what our new Discovery is all

about. We’ll have a short “Flash” introduction to the process on our web site later this week, and we’ll tell you all about it! The number of new titles is not going to go down, regardless of how many producers gather in Hollywood and wish for it. There needs to be another way, and we think this is a start.