In this comprehensive guidebook, three experienced entertainment lawyers tell you everything you need to know to produce and market an independent film.
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A marvelous primer that actually delivers what it promises. -- Geoffrey Gillmore, programming director for Sundance Film Festival
By using the authors' techniques and suggestions, the prospects of success are clearly enhanced. -- Robert Dowling, editor of The Hollywood Reporter
If you are in the independent film business, you must read this book. -- Cassian Elwes, William Morris Agency
This book is an invaluable how-to-do-it guide which belongs on your bookshelf if you produce independent films. -- Jonathan Dana, producer's rep
This is a true bible for all aspiring — and active — independent producers. -- Jean Picker Firstenberg, director/CEO of American Film Institute
By using the authors' techniques and suggestions, the prospects of success are clearly enhanced. -- Robert Dowling, editor of The Hollywood Reporter
If you are in the independent film business, you must read this book. -- Cassian Elwes, William Morris Agency
This book is an invaluable how-to-do-it guide which belongs on your bookshelf if you produce independent films. -- Jonathan Dana, producer's rep
This is a true bible for all aspiring — and active — independent producers. -- Jean Picker Firstenberg, director/CEO of American Film Institute
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Balancing the inevitable tug between art and commerce is your job, but without film commerce, your art will never come into existence, much less reach an audience. The advice here reflects custom and practice in the entertainment industry here [in the Los Angeles area]. The emphasis is on the deals that need to be made. We give you an idea of the nature of various deals, point out the critical issues, and provide parameters that deals typically fall within and how they are documented. We hope this book can raise the level of sophistication of independent producers and result in more and better independent films being financed, produced, and distributed.
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More Than a Great Book--It's a Public Service,
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This review is from: The Independent Film Producer's Survival Guide: A Business and Legal Sourcebook (Paperback)
This is more than a great book--it's a public service. Theauthors share insights from their decades of legal and entertainment production experience, in essence offering thousands of dollars of free legal advice to aspiring independent producers. Beyond offering a roadmap of business- planning steps, the book includes templates of numerous legal forms that an independent producer might need. Meanwhile, in clear and artful prose, they alternate between You're-Not-God straight talk and You-Can-Do-It encouragement. Between the lines, there seems to be a genuine interest in helping important stories and quality independent work to see the light of day. I've read other books on the business side of entertainment that were helpful, but this stands out as the best of the lot.
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If you are or want to become an independent film producer, this book will give you all of the business/legal knowledge of filmmaking you need. Even though I have not finished the book yet, I've already found this book to be extremely valuable. Because I am planning to produce a new film next year, I even called up Mr. Tulchin directly for legal advice. He was very friendly and took the time to give me great advices and was very knowledgeable in not just U.S. based entertainment law but also international entertainment law as well. Read this book and you will find it worth more than what you paid for!!!
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This review is from: The Independent Film Producer's Survival Guide: A Business and Legal Sourcebook (Paperback)
The Independent Film Producer's Survival Guide is the most practical and concrete text on the Hollywood deal-making process that I have read to date. Its succinct presentation of the independent film business-legal process is welcome. Many of the real-world examples of independent producers struggling to secure the deal are thought provoking and encouraging. I believe that any independent film producer who reads and applies the information contained in the Survival Guide can only win. Film schools should seriously consider adding this publication to their list of reference texts.
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Since this book is written for independent film producers, we are led to a threshold question: What is an independent film producer? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
stereo print master, theatrical stereo, entertainment lenders, payable promptly following, state lodging tax, digital distributor, loanout company, soft money benefits, guild residuals, applicable guild, international sales agents, digital exploitation, services hereunder, holdback period, negative specified, tax shelter promoter, completion guarantor, direct cost budget, such collective bargaining agreements, connection with the picture, video exploitation, copyright report, breach hereunder, ultimate purchase price, many independent films Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Los Angeles, New York, Screen Actors Guild, Granted Rights, Copyright Office, State of California, Initial Materials, Star Wars, The Blair Witch Project, Warner Bros, American Film Market, Cannes Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, American Humane Association, Communications Act, George Lucas, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Short-Form Assignment, The Celebration, The Last Broadcast, Author-Written Sequel, Composer Name, Finance Agreements, First Rewrite New!
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Since this book is written for independent film producers, we are led to a threshold question: What is an independent film producer? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
stereo print master, theatrical stereo, entertainment lenders, payable promptly following, state lodging tax, digital distributor, loanout company, soft money benefits, guild residuals, applicable guild, international sales agents, digital exploitation, services hereunder, holdback period, negative specified, tax shelter promoter, completion guarantor, direct cost budget, such collective bargaining agreements, connection with the picture, video exploitation, copyright report, breach hereunder, ultimate purchase price, many independent films Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Los Angeles, New York, Screen Actors Guild, Granted Rights, Copyright Office, State of California, Initial Materials, Star Wars, The Blair Witch Project, Warner Bros, American Film Market, Cannes Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, American Humane Association, Communications Act, George Lucas, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Short-Form Assignment, The Celebration, The Last Broadcast, Author-Written Sequel, Composer Name, Finance Agreements, First Rewrite New!
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- Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker by George Lucas on page 374, page 375, and page 376
- Think About It (Amazing Brain Games) by P. Green on page 69
- Star Wars Visionaries by Warren Fu on page 384
- The Cotton Club (St Martin's Original Screenplay Series) by Francis Ford Coppola on page 1
- The Birth of a Nation: D. W. Griffith, director (Rutgers Films in Print) by Robert Lang on page 373
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