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Nike was criticized for paying third-world workers less than a living wage to assemble expensive sneakers, yet filmmakers brag about making a killing at the box office with movies put together by unpaid artists and technicians. While farm workers struggle for fair wages, film professionals willingly work for free. What gives? Keeping production costs low by using donated labor and services is a time-honored practice, but recent advances in digital technology coupled with last year's huge financial success of The Blair Witch Project spawned a cottage industry of no-budget productions. The blessing is that it is infinitely easier ...

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