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Producer to Producer

A Step-by-Step Guide to Low-Budget Independent Film Producing
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Producer to Producer is a comprehensive guide for both emerging and professional filmmakers focused on low-budget film production. It carefully walks readers through every stage of the process, from initial production meetings to postproduction. With invaluable checklists spanning from 12 weeks before shooting to final editing, it aims to keep producers organised and on schedule.
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Ideal for aspiring and experienced film producers working with limited budgets who seek detailed, practical guidance to manage their productions efficiently.

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Five books in one! Covering development, script breakdown, budgeting, preproduction, postproduction, sales and distribution, and much more, Producer to Producer gives you all the information you need in an easy-to-understand, chronological fashion. Don't produce your project without it!

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Producer to Producer is a comprehensive bible for low-budget film producing, aimed at both emerging and professional producers. It is structured to guide the reader through production meetings, with every aspect of the film-production process thoroughly outlined.

Invaluable checklists—starting 12 weeks before shooting and continuing through principal (and secondary) photography and postproduction—help keep the filmmaker on track and on target.

Maureen A. Ryan, the author, is the co-producer of James Marsh's Man on Wire, which won the 2009 Academy Award for Best Documentary.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781615932665

Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 April 2017

Country: United States

Imprint: Michael Wiese Productions

Illustration: illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 816g

Pages: 350

About the Author

Maureen A. Ryan is a New York-based producer concentrating on narrative and documentary fea-ture films. She is co-producer of James Marsh's Man on Wire, winner of the 2009 Academy Award for Best Documentary and the 2009 BAFTA for Best British Film. She is also the co-producer of Project Nim and the production advisor on the Netflix 10-part series Making a Murderer by Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi. She is co-executive producer of the television pilot Stanistan for USA Network / Univer-sal Cable Productions. She is the executive producer on The Penny Black, a nonfiction episodic series with a pilot episode already produced, and is the re-creations producer for both Johanna Hamilton's new feature documentary, 1971, and for Alex Gibney's feature documentary, Mea Maxima Culpa: Si-lence in the House of God. The author is also a producer of the independent narrative film BOMBER, which premiered at the SXSW Film Festival and won numerous film festival awards. Ryan's other producer credits include Red Flag, The Gates, Grey Gardens: From East Hampton to Broadway, The Team, The King, Torte Bluma, Last Hand Standing, and Wisconsin Death Trip. Additional awards have included a Peabody Award, three AICP Awards, a Billboard Award, a Freddie, a CMA Award, an ACM Award, 11 Addys, and 5 Tellys. Ryan is the Chair / Associate Professor of Columbia University's Graduate Film program and holds an MFA (Film) from Columbia's School of the Arts and a BA (Economics) from Boston College. Ryan has taught film seminars domestically and internationally in Toronto, Canada; Amman, Jordan; Beijing, China; Brussels, Belgium; and Kinshasa, Congo (on a Fulbright grant). The first edition of Producer to Producer has been translated into Japanese and Chinese. The companion website is www.ProducerToProducer.com.

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