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In a world where Miramax is without the Weinstein brothers and New Line Cinema is without its own founder, Robert Shaye, gone are the days when some video store clerk could max out his credit card to finance a feature film and become the talk of Sundance overnight. That hasn’t deterred Ronald Bronstein from getting his film made, though. The Brooklynite has spent the last five years working as a projectionist in various art houses around the city, all the while assembling his first feature, “Frownland.” It’s as raw and as offbeat as independent film gets — which is exactly the kind of stuff that the studios’ so-called indie divisions won’t touch with a 10-foot pole. Despite earning a Spirit Award nomination,
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