INDIES UNDER FIRE

Jacob Bricca grew up in Palo Alto, California, and spent much of his youth hanging out at Printers Inc. bookstore. When the owners announced its impending closure in late 1998, he grabbed his video camera and started shooting. Indies Under Fire is the result of six years of research and filming, and is the first documentary to look in depth at the issues surrounding the growth of "super-chain" bookstores... In the span of just a decade, over half of the nation's independent bookstores vanished. This revealing documentary tells the stories of three such stores fighting for survival. In Capitola, California, a developer's plans to bring Borders to town prompts a fierce debate over the rights of "big box" retailers to locate in a place famous for its small town charm. In Palo Alto, news of the closing of Printers Inc. Bookstore prompts a local citizen to mortgage his house to try to save it. And in Santa Cruz, when a Borders moves in down the street from the town's oldest bookstore,..