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Since establishing his L.A. operation called Insurgence<\/a> (formerly V Channels Media) in 2021 Messina has been on a roll. Building on the YouTube<\/a> distribution network he set up to monetize low-budget indie movies globally, his company has financed more than 200 titles with budgets under $200,000 that it first licenses to streamers, and then drops on its genre-specific YouTube channels.<\/p>\n A couple of examples: Insurgence\u2019s Spaghetti Western \u201cThe Dutchman<\/a>,\u201d directed by Italy\u2019s Emiliano Ferrara [not to be confused with the thriller by the same title directed by Andre Gaines<\/a>] and shot for $10,000, scored more than 5 million views in under a month in 2024. Its horror\/thriller \u201cStranger<\/a>,\u201d directed by Emanuele Pica<\/a>, has notched up…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Digital distribution and production pioneer Mario Niccol\u00f2 Messina set up shop in Los Angeles four years ago, after launching an innovative micro budget movies business model in his native Italy. He now has a bigger ambition: \u201cI\u2019d like to be the Roger Corman of the third millennium,\u201d he says. Since establishing his L.A. operation called […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2287422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2287421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Digital-Content-Pioneer-Mario-Niccolo-Messina-on-Distributing-a-10000.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2287421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2287423,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287421\/revisions\/2287423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2287422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2287421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2287421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2287421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}