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| Micro-Budget Hollywood |
| Budgeting
(and Making) Feature Films for $50,000 to $500,000 |
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| Philip Gaines
and David J. Rhodes, 220 pages, 7x9, illus., 1-879505-22-3,
$17.95 paper |
“A
very informative, useful book, executed with candor and
a refreshing
touch of touch
of humor. I highly recommend it
to all guerrilla filmmakers.”
—Christopher Coppola, Director, Deadfall, Dracula’s Widow“
A handy guide
that neatly steers would-be movie moguls onto the
road to success. Highly recommended.”
—Fred Olen Ray, Producer/Director, Inner Sanctum, Droid Gunner |
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Micro-budget feature filmmakers often fail because
of unwise and untutored budgeting. Micro-Budget Hollywood is
the first book to offer these filmmakers a fully
explained—line-by-line, account-by-account—sample
budget specifically geared to their economic bracket. This
straight-forward, commonsense approach to shoestring
budgeting is an invaluable aid to understanding
how to keep a film on track and within budget.
Micro-Budget
Hollywood also
presents interviews with eleven successful
micro-budget filmmakers, including producers,
directors, writers, a production manager, a
cinematographer, an editor, and a composer,
who offer their insights on budgeting, financing,
making, and distributing micro-budget films.
Armed with this book, micro-budget filmmakers
have a very good chance of success, and, perhaps,
of eventually going macro.
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Philip
Gaines produced his first feature, Night
Terror, for $32,000; his first most recent feature, Outlanders,
cost slightly more than $3.5 million. He has produced
over a dozen other feature films as well as documentaries
for PBS and music videos.
David J, Rhodes has won several awards
for his short film Crystal Night. He has worked
as a director of photography on several features and
has appeared as a guest lecturer on film production at
numerous universities. |
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