The Complete Independent Movie Marketing Handbook

If you're an independent filmmaker looking for information on how to find distribution and audiences for your movies and videos, you'll find it here. This book gives street level instruction and real-world examples on how to promote, distribute and sell your productions--from landing a distribution deal and getting free media coverage to staging a low-cost premiere and selling your productions to video rental chains and through the Internet.

Contracts for the Film & Television Industry

A no nonsense, thorough guide to the complex world of contractual law for an industry that has a history of taking advantage of those who don't take the time or spend the money to hire good legal representation. He is an advocate for the rights of artists, writers, actors, etc., and his contracts are a good basis for negotiations and deals in the TV/Film industry. Even if you hire your own attorney, this book will help you understand the structure of your deal and alert you to fine print details you might have missed.

Sundancing : Hanging Out And Listening In At America's Most Important Film Festival

JOHN ANDERSON, chief film critic for New York Newsday, attended his ninth Sundance in 1999, but this time he did more than screen films and leap for tables at overbooked restaurants. He interviewed performers and filmmakers of all kinds, including top prize winners, but also uncovered the effect of all this ballyhoo on the indie film scene--and on the bemused Park City locals. Alongside the thoughts of Diane Lane, Steve Buscemi, Mike Figgis and other distinguished film people are conversations with festival volunteers, bus drivers, policemen, shopkeepers, and more. Together, they form candid, fascinating, hilarious, and 100% human-sized coverage of the Sundance Film Festival.

Sundance to Sarajevo: Film Festivals and the World They Made

Sundance to Sarajevo is a tour of the world's film festivals by an insider whose familiarity with the personalities, places, and culture surrounding the cinema makes him uniquely suited to his role. Kenneth Turan, film critic for the Los Angeles Times, writes about the most unusual as well as the most important film festivals, and the cities in which they occur, with an eye toward the larger picture. His lively narrative emphasizes the cultural, political, and sociological aspects of each event as well as the human stories that influence the various and telling ways the film world and the real world intersect.

Down and Dirty Pictures : Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film

Down and Dirty Pictures chronicles the rise of independent filmmakers and of the twin engines -- Sundance and Miramax -- that have powered them, profiling the people who took the independent movement from obscurity to the Oscars, most notably Sundance founder Robert Redford and Harvey Weinstein, who with his brother, Bob, made Miramax an indie powerhouse. An incisive account, loaded with vibrant anecdotes and outrageous stories, all of it blended into a fast-moving narrative about the people who reinvented Hollywood, and took independent films mainstream.