microbudget

plural microbudgets

1. attributiveoftenA very small budget.

   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

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   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