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by Kathryn Reed Altman, Giulia D'Agnolo Vallan
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
For decades, Robert Altman fascinated audiences with pioneering films—among them M*A*S*H, Nashville, The Player, and Gosford Park—that combined technical innovation with subversive, satirical humor and impassioned political engagement. His ability to explore and engage so many different worlds...
D. W. Griffith
Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
D. W. Griffith (1875-1948) is one of the most influential figures in the history of the motion picture. As director of The Birth of a Nation, he is also one of the most controversial. He raised the cinema to a new level of art, entertainment, and innovation, and at the same time he illustrated, for...
Making an Exhibition of Myself: the autobiography of Peter Hall
The Autobiography of Peter Hall
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
The story of a railway worker’s son who became one of the most powerful, outspoken and charismatic figures in European theatre. Sir Peter Hall has been director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, artistic director of Glyndebourne, and director of Britain’s National Theatre from 1973 to 1988. He...
Independent Ed
Inside a Career of Big Dreams, Little Movies, and the Twelve Best Days of My Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
An entertaining and inspirational memoir by one of the most prominent practitioners and evangelists of independent filmmaking, and the acclaimed writer, director, and actor (Saving Private Ryan, Friends with Kids, Entourage) whose first film—The Brothers McMullen—has become an indie classic.
At...
My First Movie: Take Two
Ten Celebrated Directors Talk About Their First Film
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008
A sequel to the critically acclaimed My First Movie, Stephen Lowenstein once again talks to some of our most celebrated filmmakers about their debut films. Lowenstein interviews ten directors about their career-launching film and how they got the movie off the ground: how they raised the finance,...
by Lucy Brown, Lyndsay Duthie
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
Here is the one-stop handbook to make your studio production shine.
The Reel Truth
Everything You Didn't Know You Need to Know About Making an Independent Film
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
Did you know that most of the biggest indie filmmakers, screenwriters, and producers working today each made the same avoidable mistakes early on in their careers?
The Reel Truth details the pitfalls, snares, and roadblocks that aspiring filmmakers encounter. Reed Martin interviewed more than...
The Indie Producers Handbook
Creative Producing from A to Z
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
Myrl Schreibman has written a comprehensive and practical, step-by-step guide for organizing and running a film from pre-production through post-production and delivery. This invaluable resource provides fundamental tools to produce a more thorough, more organized, and more professional film production....
Bankroll
A New Approach to Financing Feature Films
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
There is one golden rule in Hollywood: He who has the gold makes the rules. At the end of the day, a film can have every other element in place, yet if it lacks financing, it's never going to happen. This book explains how to get the gold.
The Art of Film Funding
Alternative Financing Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
This reference guide helps potential filmmakers create the perfect pitch, inspire a winning application, find and connect with funding organizations, make a successful "ask," and land the money to make a film.
by Reginald Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2010
With hands-on advice and instruction from an experienced actor and theater director, this pragmatic, authoritative guide to starting a theater company imparts essential backstage know-how for would-be playhouse practitioners on everything from fundraising and finding a space to selecting plays and...
The Independent Filmmaker's Law and Business Guide
Financing, Shooting, and Distributing Independent and Digital Films
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Preparing independent or guerrilla filmmakers for the legal, financial, and organizational questions that can doom a project if unanswered, this guide demystifies issues such as developing a concept, founding a film company, obtaining financing, securing locations, casting, shooting, granting screen...
by Joseph McBride
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
John Ford's classic films--such as Stagecoach, The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, The Quiet Man, and The Searchers--have earned him worldwide admiration as America's foremost filmmaker, a director whose rich visual imagination conjures up indelible, deeply moving images of our collective...
by Sara Caldwell
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Firsthand knowledge and advice on every aspect of forming a film production company can be found in this one source. Film production company owners, entertainment attorneys, accountants, and distributors answer the most commonly asked questions on forming and running a successful film production company....