microbudget
nounEtymology From micro- + budget.
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Often A very small budget.
- Having scored a distribution deal for this microbudget film she shot with friends in Seattle over a handful of days last summer, Ms. Shelton embarked on a sort of victory lap of the festival circuit.2009 July 5, Michelle Orange, “She’s a Director Who’s Just Another Dude”, in New York Times:
- We now have thousands upon thousands of tiny movies made on microbudgets, financed with personal credit cards.2013, Lynda Obst, Sleepless in Hollywood, page 45: