Books : Indie Filmmaking

The Complete Guide to Writing, Producing, and Directing a Low-Budget Short Film
By Gini Graham ScottThe Complete Guide to Writing, Producing, and Directing a Low-Budget Short Film is a comprehensive step-by-step overview of how to complete and promote a low-budget short film. It begins with how to w...
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Filmmaking Stuff: How to make, market and sell your movie without the middle-man.
By Jason BrubakerThe future of filmmaking is not Hollywood. It is the thousands of Filmmakers empowered by the digital revolution. In this filmmaking book, YOU will find out how how to get the script, use crowdfund...
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Think Outside the Box Office
By Jon ReissThe independent film community is a buzz with the collapse of the traditional independent film distribution model. No longer can filmmakers expect their films to be acquired and released nationally. B...
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Getting Your Short Film Funded, Made and Seen
By Tricia Tuttle (editor)Shooting People, the UK-based filmmaker community (with a New York offshoot), made a name for itself in the film book publishing world a few years back with the excellent UK Film Finance Handbook. Thi...
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The Filmmaker's Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide for the Digital Age
By Steven Ascher, Edward PincusWidely acknowledged as the "bible" of film and video production and used in courses around the world, this indispensable guide to making movies is now updated with the latest advances in high- definit...
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Complete Guide to Digital Video
By Ed Gaskell"Complete Guide to Digital Video" will walk you from beginner to expert, whatever your level of ambition. It's the shooting script for aspiring Spielbergs, both young and old, covering the basic techn...
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Nuts and Bolts Filmmaking
By Dan RahmelNuts and Bolts Filmmaking, an ideal book for the rapidly growing number of low-budget filmmakers, provides how-to information on the day-to-day techniques of actual low-budget production. Containing c...
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Make Your Own Hollywood Movie
By Ed GaskellThe advent of digital video and the decreasing costs of entry-level cameras and editing software have opened up filmmaking to a younger audience who were generally excluded unless they had rich parent...
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Before You Shoot: Guide to Low Budget Film Production
By Helen GarvyA practical guide for independent filmmakers on all aspects of film & video production - including planning, budgeting, scheduling, casting, production logistics, post-production, distribution, and mu...
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Digital Babylon: Hollywood, Indiewood and Dogme 95
By Shari Roman"Filmmaking must always be linked to a certain degree of risk." This is the philosophy of Dogme 95, a collective of film directors born in 1995 in Copenhagen, when Lars von Trier (Dancer in the Dark) ...
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From Reel to Deal: Everything You Need to Create a Successful Independent Film
By Dov S-S SimensThe boom in interest in independent filmmaking witnessed during the 1990s gave birth to a cottage industry built around offering slimmed down, "just the facts" filmmaker training and taking advantage ...
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Feature Filmmaking at Used-Car Prices: How to Write, Produce, Direct, Shoot, Edit, and Promote a Feature-Lenth Movie for Less Than $15,000
By Rick SchmidtMaking a movie is an expensive enterprise no matter which way you try to cut costs. Many women filmmakers find themselves trying to stretch miniscule budgets without compromising quality. This book of...
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All I Need to Know About Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger
By Lloyd KaufmanImagine Roger Corman and John Waters crossed with Howard Stern--and you'll have an idea of the demented genius behind Troma studios, one of the oldest (and most successful) independent film studios in...
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The Guerilla Film Maker's Handbook
By Chris Jones, Genevieve JolliffeA guide to low-budget moviemaking in the UK and around the world. Featuring tips, a yellow pages listing, contracts, and other information needed to create a film, the book explodes industry myth. The...
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Guerilla Film Makers Movie Blueprint
By Chris JonesThe single most comprehensive, honest, information-packed book ever written on how to make a low budget movie. This amazing book explains EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW. From lighting to camera equipment...
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Rebel Without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player
By Robert RodriguezIn Rebel Without a Crew, screenwriter and director Robert Rodriguez discloses all the unique strategies and original techniques he used to make his remarkable debut film, El Mariachi, on a shoestring ...
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The Independent Film and Videomaker's Guide (2nd Edition)
By Michael WieseWiese's book sets itself apart in terms of balancing the creative aspects of filmmaking (idea development, brainstorming exercises) with the business aspects (financing, dealmaking).communicating to t...
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Independent Feature Film Production : A Complete Guide from Concept Through Distribution
By Gregory GoodellThis new edition of the filmmaker's bible has been completely updated to reflect changes in every aspect of the moviemaking process. The comments speak for themselves: "This book is a must. It is a...
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