Make Your Own Damn Movie!: Secrets of a Renegade Director
by Lloyd Kaufman, Trent Haaga, Adam Jahnke
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Lloyd Kaufman, the writer/producer/director of such cult-classic films asThe Toxic Avenger,Class of Nuke 'Em High, andTromeo and Juliet, offers a guide to movie-making unlike any other available anywhere. In 25 years, Kaufman, along with partner Michael Herz, has built Troma Studios up from a company struggling to find its voice in a field crowded with competitors to its current--and legendary--status as a lone survivor, a bastion of true cinematic independence, and the world's greatest show more collection of camp on film. As entertaining and funny as it is informative and insightful,Make Your Own Damn Movie!places Kaufman's radically low-budget, independent-studio style of filmaking directly in the reader's hands. Thus we learn how to: develop and write a knock-out screenplay; raise funding; find locations and cast actors; hire a crew; obtain equipment, permits, and music rights (all for little or no money); make incredible special effects for $0.79 each; charm, schmooze, and network while on the film-festival circuit; and, finally, make a bad actor act so bad it's actually good. From scriptwriting and directing to financing and marketing, this book is brimming with utterly off-the-wall, decidedly maverick, yet consistently proven advice on how to fully develop one's idea for an independent film. show lessTags
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Lloyd Kaufman is the Co-Founder and President of Troma entertainment, Arguably the Longest Running Independent Film Studio in the World. He Has Operated Outside of the Studio System for More Than 40 Years, Writing, Directing, and Producing Dozens of Low-Budget Independent Films that have Influenced an Entire Generation of Directors, Including show more Quentin Tarantino, Peter Jackson, and Takashi Miike, Among Troma Entertainment's Library of 1, 000 Film and Television Programs are the Early Performances of such Superstars as Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Kevin Costner, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert De Niro, Dennis Hopper, Dustin Hoffman, chuck Lorre, Fergie, and Countless Others. A Longtime Force Against Media Consolidation, Kaufman is Also the chairman of the Independent Film Television Alliance (IFTA). show less
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Adam Jahnke is a LibraryThing Author, an author who lists their personal library on LibraryThing.
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- 2003
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- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
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- 791.43023 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Public performances Motion pictures, radio, television, podcasting Motion pictures Standard subdivisions Supervision
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- PN1995.9 .P7 .K385 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Motion pictures
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