Make Your Own Damn Movie!: Secrets of a Renegade Director (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780312288648)

Lloyd Kaufman, the writer/producer/director of such cult-classic films as The Toxic Avenger, Class of Nuke 'Em High, and Tromeo and Juliet, offers a guide to movie-making unlike any other available anywhere. In 25 years, Kaufman, along with partner Michael Herz, has built Troma Studios up from a company struggling to find its voice in a field crowded with competitors to its current--and legendary--status as a lone survivor, a bastion of true cinematic independence, and the world's greatest collection of camp on film.

As entertaining and funny as it is informative and insightful, Make Your Own Damn Movie! places Kaufman's radically low-budget, independent-studio style of filmaking directly in the reader's hands. Thus we learn how to: develop and write a knock-out screenplay; raise funding; find locations and cast actors; hire a crew; obtain equipment, permits, and music rights (all for little or no money); make incredible special effects for $0.79 each; charm, schmooze, and network while on the film-festival circuit; and, finally, make a bad actor act so bad it's actually good.

From scriptwriting and directing to financing and marketing, this book is brimming with utterly off-the-wall, decidedly maverick, yet consistently proven advice on how to fully develop one's idea for an independent film.

Author: Lloyd Kaufman, Adam Jahnke, Trent Haaga
ISBN-10: 0312288646
ISBN-13: 9780312288648
Publisher: L.A. Weekly Books
Language: English
Published: 04/05/2003
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 03/01/2003 pg. 1134
Publishers Weekly 03/24/2003