The film, which had a budget of less than $2 million, consisted of a cast of non-professional actors and a crew of a dozen. The Girlfriend Experience can be seen as an exercise for both artists coming off his final film for the Ocean’s franchise as well as his ambitious two-part Che (2008) film, which runs over four hours, Steven Soderbergh’s The Girlfriend Experience is a small-scale low-budget film that runs a cool 77 minutes.
In other words, both artists have maintained extremely prolific careers, working in numerous parts of their respective industries. In the six years since has adopted digital filmmaking, he has worked rapidly and has released eight feature length films. In addition to the role he assumes as filmmaker, he also acts as cinematographer and editor on most of his projects. In his career, he has continuously been at the forefront of technology, becoming one of the first filmmakers that made the switch into digital.
Steven Soderbergh has been the face of independent filmmaking, despite seamlessly shifting from independent and mainstream films.
The filmmaker’s breakthrough film, Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) contributed to the independent film revolution after he became the youngest filmmaker that won a Palme d’Or at the Festival de Cannes. Steven Soderbergh entered into the film industry in 1989 at the age of 26.
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