Euphemisms I have recently used for "low-budget"

[Phil Rhodes]

- least-expensive movies

- economically-produced shows

- thriftily-budgeted productions

- competitively-priced films

- modestly-expensive shoots

- cautiously-financed cinematography

And my personal favourite:

- Media which shambles forth unsteadily from the stygian depths of the bargain basement with a guttural croak of "filmzzzz."

I post this as a sort of desperate thesaurus, in the hope that it will be useful to people forced into discussions in which it becomes necessary to refer kindly to the poorly-funded nature of a production.

 

[Max Field]

Some more for you

"Actually low budget"

"Entirely unfunded"

"Youtube video"