Limitations can be beneficial: De Vries

According to Carmilla Hyde director David De Vries, independent filmmakers can benefit from working with limitations and even make a profit from a strategic release of their projects.

“Budget and time limitations can actually work to your advantage,” De Vries told Encore.

“Limitations encourage people to give their best and requires everybody to be at the top of their game,” he added.

Carmilla Hyde is a dark thriller about an introverted virgin who is seduced and humiliated by her housemates, and whose hypnotist releases her repressed memories and a wild, sexual alter ego, the title character. It was made on a shoe-string budget of $250,000, 17 shooting days.