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Whatever It Takes
Life Lessons from Degrassi and Elsewhere in the World of Music and Television
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2018
This book will change the way you think about success.
Producer of television’s iconic Degrassi franchise Stephen Stohn tells stories from behind the scenes and of making it in the music and television world in this star-studded, rock ’n’ roll trip through a Canadian show business explosion....
When The Shooting Stops ... The Cutting Begins
A Film Editor's Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
The story of one of the most important and least-understood jobs in moviemaking-film editing-is here told by one of the wizards, Ralph Rosenblum, whose credentials include six Woody Allen films, as well as The Pawnbroker, The Producers, and Goodbye, Columbus. Rosenblum and journalist Robert Karen...
Conversations at the American Film Institute with the Great Moviemakers
The Next Generation
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
A companion volume to George Stevens, Jr.’s, much admired book of American Film Institute seminars with the great pioneering moviemakers (“Invaluable”—Martin Scorsese).
Those represented here—directors, producers, writers, actors, cameramen, composers, editors—are men and women working...
Documentary Superstars
How Today's Filmmakers Are Reinventing the Form
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
The first book to trace the rise of documentaries as mainstream entertainment. When did documentaries get glamorous? Documentary Superstars looks at the history of documentaries and traces their transition from hands-off to in your face. Exclusive interviews with Michael Moore, Morgan Spurlock, Errol...
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,...
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...
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...