The Case For Fan Films: Are They Relevant In A New Age of Fandom?
5 min readSep 11, 2023
Spider-Man: Lotus and Superman: Solar’s controversial releases recall how big the fan film community has gotten in the past three decades.
Fan films come about when big fans of a popular franchise make an unofficial short film about it. Most of the time, these fans have no professional filmmaking experience and extremely low budgets. The main charm of…