Produce Your Own Damn Movie!

Name: Produce Your Own Damn Movie!
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9780240810454
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By Lloyd Kaufman and Ashley Wren Collins

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Produce Your Own Damn Movie! by Lloyd Kaufman, founder of Troma Entertainment, offers an insider's guide to producing low-budget independent films. The book covers everything from finding investors, scouting locations, hiring crew and cast, navigating legalities, to budgeting concerns and dealing with unforeseen disasters. Filled with candid interviews from top producers such as Mark Damon and James Gunn, this practical and humorous volume equips filmmakers with tools to start, manage, and complete their own movie projects.
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This book is ideal for independent filmmakers, aspiring producers, and anyone interested in the practical and financial aspects of low-budget film production. Its candid tone and insider tips make it especially suitable for readers seeking an engaging, realistic, and humorous approach to producing films outside mainstream studios.

Introducing a new book series on guerrilla filmmaking by legendary independent filmmaker Lloyd Kaufman! Learn your own damn producing secrets!

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When it comes to producing, no one speaks with more authority than Lloyd Kaufman, founder of the longest-running independent film studio, Troma Entertainment. He reveals the best ways to seek out investors, scout locations, hire crew and cast talent, navigate legalities, and stay within your budget.

Featuring tips from some of the finest producers in the business (Mark Damon, James Gunn, Mark Harris, Tery Jones, Brad Kevoy, Stephen Paul, and more!), this book gives filmmakers practical tools for getting a movie shoot started, keeping it afloat, and seeing it through to the end. Candid interviews, tips, tricks, and tidbits scattered throughout the book illustrate the many techniques you can employ to produce your own damn movie—Lloyd Kaufman shows you how it's really done.

This volume reveals the secrets of producing a low-budget independent film. Covering everything about production from the initial movie idea, all the way through pre-production and up to the first day of principal photography (including budgeting concerns to production-damaging acts of God), you'll get the inside track to producing your own damn movie.

Produce Your Own Damn Movie! will be your step-by-step guide on the journey to:

Maximize production values with a minimal budget
Scout locations
Different producing models
Develop business plans
Pre-selling your movie

Hysterical in tone, filmmakers and producers won't be able to put this book down.

Produce Your Own Damn Movie! is the second volume in the Focal Press series Your Own Damn Film School. Check out the first volume in the series, Direct Your Own Damn Movie!

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

Praised by American Cinematographer Magazine as "honest, inspiring, smart, hilarious, and informative," this book is regarded as a treasure for indie filmmakers. Independent Magazine highlights Kaufman's expert advice infused with humour and candid interviews, while HorrorNews.net commends the author's intelligence, wit, and practical knowledge on financial and creative production tactics. Overall, the book is celebrated for its blend of insight, humour, and hands-on guidance.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780240810454

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 August 2009

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Focal Press

Illustration: 84 Halftones, black and white

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 570g

Pages: 306

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Arts & Culture Ashley Wren Collins Lloyd Kaufman Non-Fiction

About the Author

Lloyd Kaufman is one of the very few genuine auteur filmmakers. He has written, produced, and/or directed more than 25 films, including "The Toxic Avenger", "Terror Firmer", "Tromeo and Juliet", and "Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead". Kaufman is president of the world-famous Troma Entertainment, the oldest and, arguably, the longest-running truly independent film studio in history. He is also the president of the IFTA (Independent Film & Television Alliance), whose members produce more than 400 independent films and countless hours of television programming each year and generate more than $4 billion in distribution revenues annually.