By
Elliot Grove, Founder and Director of the Raindance Film Festival - the largest independent film festival in Europe - and founder of the British Independent
Film Awards. Teaches professional scriptwriting courses and weekend master classes: 'Write the Hot Script'; 'Lo-To-No Budget Filmmaking'
internationally. Former students have made commercially successful films including:
Borat; Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind;
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; My Big Fat Greek Wedding; and
Memento. Elliot has produced 4 features and over 70 short
films.
Elliot Grove, Founder and Director of the Raindance Film Festival - the largest independent film festival in Europe - and founder of the British Independent
Film Awards. Teaches professional scriptwriting courses and weekend master classes: 'Write the Hot Script'; 'Lo-To-No Budget Filmmaking'
internationally. Former students have made commercially successful films including:
Borat; Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind;
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; My Big Fat Greek Wedding; and
Memento. Elliot has produced 4 features and over 70 short
films.
Description
If you're looking for clear-cut information on how to make a film on a minimal budget that is based on tried and tested techniques - look
no further. Elliot Grove has worked on hundreds of low-budget productions, teaches Lo-to-No Budget filmmaking courses and runs the Raindance
Film Festival (the largest independent film festival in Europe.) His wealth of teaching and filmmaking experience combined with knowledge
of the winning formulas that work is the basis of this book. Refreshingly clear, no-nonsense tricks of the trade. The free CD provides
all the contracts and material you need to run a production company and make successful low budget movies; how to schedule, budget and
break down a script and how to get it shot with what you have, not what you want.
This is a must have read for filmmakers serious
about making and selling films. Creative and technical expertise coupled with a behind the scenes look at the film industry makes this
book an excellent starting point for beginners. For experienced filmmakers there are plenty of practical approaches in here for you to
try, from developing CV's, showreels and business plans to information on pitching, raising finance, creating publicity and much much
more. Use it as a point of departure or as an everyday reference tool. The accompanying CD-ROM contains sample budgets, publicity plans,
trailers and interviews.
Audience:
Independent filmmakers just starting out. Students on film courses. Wannabee filmmakers.
