THE COMPANION WEBSITE INCLUDES:

• Over 30 minutes of high-quality video tutorials featuring more than a dozen working Hollywood professionals

• Industry-standard forms and contracts you can use for your production

Sample scripts, storyboards, schedules, call sheets, contracts, letters from the producer, camera logs, and press kits

A 45-minute video that takes you inside the movie that launched Jason's career. Learn how he did it-3,000 extras, 48 locations, and 650 visual effects all made from his parents' basement for $25,000

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Art, Music, Drama/Theater

Direct Your Movie from Script to Screen Using Proven Hollywood Techniques

Filmmaking, the definitive resource for filmmakers, blows the doors off the secretive film industry and shows you how to adapt the Hollywood system for your production. Full of thousands of tips, tricks, and techniques from Emmy-winning director Jason Tomaric, Filmmaking systematically takes you through every step of how to produce a successful movie - from developing a marketable idea through selling your completed movie. Whether you're on a budget of $500 or $50 million, Filmmaking reveals some of Hollywood's best-kept secrets. Make your movie and do it right.

The companion site includes:

 * Over 30 minutes of high-quality video tutorials featuring over a dozen working Hollywood professionals
 * Industry-standard forms and contracts you can use for your production
 * Sample scripts, storyboards, schedules, call sheets, contracts, letters from the producer, camera logs, and press kits
 * 45-minute video that takes you inside the movie that launched Jason's career. 3,000 extras, 48 locations, 650 visual effects-all made from his parent's basement for $25,000.

Filmmaking

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Filmmaking for Dummies (2nd Edition)

Ian Aronson

Colorado

From Start to Finish

Written in an accessible style, this work aims to provide a foundation to a beginner and also addresses the fine points of filmmaking that are suitable for directors and educators.

DV Filmmaking

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Mark Polish

Michael Polish

Jonathan Sheldon

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

An Insider's Guide to Making Movies Outside of Hollywood

Critically acclaimed, award-winning independent filmmakers Mark and Michael Polish offer this practical guide to writing, shooting, editing, scoring, promoting, and distributing short and feature films--an indispensable resource for anyone interested in filmmaking.

The Declaration of Independent Filmmaking

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Clay Nichols

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Virginia

Art, music, drama/theater

Pulling off Your Shorts

With over 20 hours of video being uploaded to YouTube every minute, how can a young filmmaker possibly stand out? By reading and applying the tools of Filmmaking for Teens

Filmmaking for Teens

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Alexander Mackendrick

Martin Scorsese

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An introduction to the craft of the director

A masterclass in film-making from the acclaimed director of Whisky Galore and The Ladykillers

On Film-Making

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Robert Rodriguez

Indiana

Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player

Famed independent screenwriter and director Robert Rodriguez (Sin City, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Spy Kids, Machete) discloses all the unique strategies and original techniques he used to make his remarkable debut film El Mariachi on a shoestring budget.

This is both one man's remarkable story and an essential guide for anyone who has a celluloid story to tell and the dreams and determination to see it through. Part production diary, part how-to manual, Rodriguez unveils how he was able to make his influential first film on only a $7,000 budget. Also included is the appendix, "The Ten Minute Film Course," a tell-all on how to save thousands of dollars on film school and teach yourself the ropes of film production, directing, and screenwriting. 

A perfect gift for the aspiring filmmaker.

Rebel Without a Crew

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Ira Marcks

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"Shark Summer is bursting with vibrant, expressive art....The characters are distinct and relatable...It's a lovely read!"--Molly Knox Ostertag, author of the Witch Boy series

"Eloquently chronicled in Marcks's cinematic panels, friendships are formed and repaired, parental relationships articulated, and inner conflicts expressed and resolved. A winning production." --Kirkus



When a Hollywood film crew arrives on Martha's Vineyard with a mechanical shark and a youth film contest boasting a huge cash prize, disgraced pitcher Gayle "Blue Streak" Briar sees a chance to turn a bad season into the best summer ever.



After recruiting aspiring cinematographer Elijah Jones and moody director Maddie Grey, Gayle and her crew set out to uncover the truth of the island's own phantom shark and win the prize money. But these unlikely friends are about to discover what happens when you turn your camera toward the bad things lurking below the surface.
 

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How to Sell Yourself and Your Movie Idea to Hollywood

Learn how to communicate through a memorable and passionate pitch that will make you and your story a winner. A terrific book for anyone interested in how showbiz works.

The Perfect Pitch

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Tom Rogers

New York

Hollywood's Best Mistakes, Goofs and Flat-Out Dstructions of the Basic Laws of the Universe

Uses basic scientific principles and theories to examine and expose implausible and inaccurate scenes in such films as "The Matrix," "The Core," and "Star Wars."

Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics

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Alicia Malone

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Essential Movies Made by Women (Alicia Malone's Movie History of Women in Entertainment)

ALICIA MALONE'S TAKE ON INFLUENTIAL WOMEN IN FILM!

"Once again Alicia Malone champions women filmmakers, opening the floodgates to a great new wave of female voices and creative vision."―Maria Giese, filmmaker and activist

#1 Bestseller in Movies & Video Guides & Reviews

With the success of the Wonder Woman movies and the results following the outcry of the #MeToo movement, now is the time to highlight the female influences in film history previously left unheard! 

The voices of powerful women in old Hollywood--told. You may have heard the term "male gaze," coined in the 1970s, about how art and entertainment have been influenced by the male's perspective. What about the opposite? Women have been making movies since the very beginning of cinema. In The Female Gaze, Alicia Malone explores the ideas, thoughts, and views we learn from women from behind the scenes. What does the world look like through the "female gaze"?

Learn about women who changed the world. Discover brilliantly talented and accomplished women directors, both world renowned and obscure, who have shaped the film industry in ways rarely fully acknowledged. Find mini-essays written by women like Alicia Malone and other diverse female film critics. Featuring past and present films, this behind the scenes guidebook is perfect for the Hollywood history fan in your life.

Inside, observe:

 * How female directors' voices shaped films and the film industry
 * The advancements and accomplishments of influential women in history and film
 * The lives of these women and the struggles they faced throughout Hollywood history

If you liked Women in Art or Camera Man, you'll adore the powerful women in history found in Alicia Malone's The Female Gaze.

The Female Gaze

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How to Make Your Breakthrough Movie

This book explains in precise, easy to understand language everything the novice director needs to know before taking on his or her first professional assignment.

First Time Director

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Robert Pollock

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From developing a treatment to writing and selling your script all you need to perfect your craft

The everything screenwriting book

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Kathryn Lasky

Pennsylvania

“A well-researched and uncompromising stand-alone novel focusing on the Nazi genocide of the Roma and Sinti peoples.” —Publishers Weekly In this chilling but ultimately uplifting novel, Kathryn Lasky imagines the lives of the Romani—called the “Gypsy Plague” by the Nazis—who worked as extras for Hitler’s real favorite filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl. Fifteen-year-old Lilo and the other extras are barely fed, closely guarded, and kept in a locked barn when not on the movie set. And Riefenstahl is always present, answering the slightest provocation with malice, flaunting the power to assign prisoners to life or death. When faced with a rare opportunity, Lilo takes matters into her own hands, effecting an escape and running for her life, giving readers a story of survival unlike any other.

The Extra

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Short Stories - Lawless - The Law Is A Lady

The Law of Love

SIXTH EDITION (ONLY THE TEXT)

An introduction to film appreciation, covering the techniques and principles of film production.

Film Art and Free Film Viewer's Guide

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Mark Cotta Vaz

New Moon: the Official Illustrated Movie Companion

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California

Digital technology is changing the ways in which filmmakers compose images and tell stories. This book covers the creative and technical aspects of digital shooting. It is designed to provide detailed, practical guidance on DV filmmaking, geared towards first-time filmmakers and film professonals.

The IFILM Digital Video Filmmaker's Handbook

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The Collaborative Art of Filmmaking

Interviews screenwriters, producers, directors, actors, production designers, editors, and composers to give an overall impression of how a film is made

From Script to Screen

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Explore the making of the film The Twilight Saga: Eclipse in this ultimate visual companion, lavishly illustrated with full-color photos of the cast, locations, and sets. This beautiful paperback edition celebrates the onscreen creation of Stephenie Meyer's fascinating world, brought to life by critically acclaimed director David Slade. With never-before-seen images, exclusive interviews and personal stories, renowned author Mark Cotta Vaz takes you behind the scenes with cast and crew, uncovering intimate details of the filmmaking process.

The Twilight Saga Eclipse: the Official Illustrated Movie Companion

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The Name Above the Title

A LOOK AT THE ENDURING MYSTERY
OF DAVID LYNCH

At once a pop-culture icon, cult figure, and film industry outsider, master filmmaker David Lynch and his work defy easy defi-nition. Dredged from his subconscious mind, Lynch's work is primed to act on our own subconscious, combining heightened, contradictory emotions into something familiar but inscrutable. No less than his art, Lynch's life also evades simple categoriza-tion, encompassing pursuits as a musician, painter, photographer, carpenter, entrepre-neur, and vocal proponent of Transcendental Meditation.
David Lynch: The Man from Another Place, Dennis Lim's remarkably smart and concise book, proposes several lenses through which to view Lynch and his work: through the age-old mysteries of the uncanny and the sublime, through the creative energies of surrealism and postmodernism, through ideas of America and theories of good and evil. Lynch himself often warns against overinterpreta-tion. And accordingly, this is not a book that seeks to decode his art or annotate his life— to dispel the strangeness of the Lynchian-so much as one that offers complementary ways of seeing and understanding one of the most distinctive bodies of work in modern cinema. Its spirit is true to its subject, in remaining suggestive rather than definitive, in allowing what Lynch likes to call "room to dream," and in honoring the allure of the unknown and the unknowable.

DENNIS LIM is a writer and film curator in New York City and the director of programming at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. A former contributor to the New York Times, he is also the editor of The Village Voice Film Guide: 50 Years of Movies from Classics to Cult Hits (2006).

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A Comprehensive Guide for the Digital Age: Fifth Edition

With a myriad of options and technology available to filmmakers, making a film is more affordable than ever. As legions of would-be filmmakers aspire to put their dreams on screen, to become the next Scorsese or viral YouTube hit, this comprehensive guide is more essential than ever. Covering digital video, film and even DSLR still cameras with video capabilities, two award winning filmmakers and teachers address all aspects of filmmaking.

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