THE SOLUTION IS TO MAKE IRISH FILMS WITH A LOW BUDGET!

What? The previous post said low-budget films are killing Irish cinema while this post states that the solution is to make Irish films with a low budget? Surely a contradiction? Surely some mistake? Nope. There's a difference: low budget films are just that - usually mainstream films copied from Hollywood/British productions but done cheaper. Most Irish cinema consists of this. Films with a low budget are ones that don't need much of a budget at all. These films use non-professional actors, are dialogue driven, use real locations, are set in the present era, don't use chart songs on the soundtrack, use a small number of locations, don't require much post-production work, are filmed using small cameras, and most importantly - their low-budget is exploited. This is the way forward! If Irish cinema started producing more of these films then we would have more of an identity and perhaps more interesting filmmaking? Almost everything else has been done and failed. Sure maybe these films won't make much money but how much did Perrier's Bounty make in the States again? That wasn't even a low-budget film!