Overview

With the rise of 3D, CGI, and nine-figure budgets, the movie business has never seemed more expensive than it does today. But, in reality, making a movie for next to nothing has never been easier. In Movies without Baggage, longtime filmmaker Alain Silver shows how twenty-first-century technology makes it possible to produce high-quality, full-length feature films for less than $50,000, $25,000 or even $10,000. There has never been a book like this written by a filmmaker with so much experience on both sides of the camera. Silver covers everything from finding/creating the right script; budgeting, casting, and signing contracts; scheduling, crewing, and shooting; post-production; and finally marketing and securing distribution. Richly illustrated with stills from his own ultra-low-budget films, Movies without Baggage is the ultimate guide for the aspiring guerrilla filmmaker.

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'It's what you always want in a film reference book, but rarely find: comprehensive, intelligently organised, voluminously illustrated, and possessed of its own distinctive voice' Lawrence Kasdan, director of Body Heat, writer of Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Big Chill 'The best book on the subject, by people who understand how movies work' John Flynn, director of The Outfit and Best Seller

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Alain Silver is a writer, director, and producer of more than two-dozen independent features. He was previously an assistant director on productions at Warner Bros., Paramount, MGM and Columbia. His last two films were shot for less than $7,500. He is the author of The Film Noir Encyclopedia and The Noir Style, also published by Duckworth.

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