Hey everyone, I want to ask:

I'm filming a indie film that truly has a unique and specific, but very large, target audience. It is a horror film, but it truly appeals in a unique and beautiful way that people of a certain target audience would truly devour.

Anyway, the film is being filmed with a micro-budget, around 1,500$, and at first, I plan on showing this film at local music venues or teen hang-out spots, to see if the interest and reaction is high. Wether I get a good response or not, I want to then see if a few local indie theaters will show my film. Heck, I would even *see* if there's a chance local megaplexes would be interested in showing my film at select time slots. During all this time, I would have some very large local adverstising going on, with a website, myspace, flyers, posters, and all that jazz, with my own dvd sales being sold through my own website.

I figure this is only the baby steps, though, I feel like I would then submit my film to film festivals for possible awards and the attention of film distributors. If this doesn't work, I would then pitch my film to a decent distributing company, with all the proof that there was extreme interest in my film on a local level and that with proper advertising and distribution, that profit could be made in every major city across the US, or at least in select theaters (maybe 2 or 3 for each state), and definatly a profit in later dvd sales and especially rentals.

Generally, this is exactly how bands and musicians do their business, and I figure that even though the business of film is extremely different, that one CAN go about it the natural way and build things from the ground up, like you would think an indie film is SUPPOSED to do. At least I hope so.

Any major flaws here? Feel free to say, I definatly want to know the roads of the business...in general terms.