MUMBAI: Independent film producers in the US face a tough road ahead. Fewer banks are lending, financial terms are spun into complex cobwebs, some studios like Paramount Vantage are shutting shop, independent films are made to hunt hard for buyers and the DVD business is in a state of slumber.

“I am confident that there enough people with passion who will make films on important issues. Having said that there is the danger that four years down the line there might be less variety in terms of Hollywood content,” said Hollywood producer Lawrence Bender during his keynote at the Ficci Frames convention here today.

Bender, whose new documentary about the dangers of nuclear proliferation is being released in the US in July, said he made An Inconvenient Turth with Al Gore believing that it would make a difference to the world.