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Full Description
Filmmaking has made it into the
mainstream. HBO has deemed the filmmaker market big enough to air a
weekly series on the subject—"Project Greenlight"—and to
give it a primetime Sunday night slot (replacing the slot filled by
"Band of Brothers.") This is because we are in the midst of a
digital revolution—a revolution which has just begun, and which will,
like the internet, change culture as we know it.
While
how-to technical manuals and digital film companion books have emerged
in response to widespread buzz about the medium, there is no single
definitive book that shows independent filmmakers, industry members, and
movie lovers the practical realities of DV production and its evolving
place in the entertainment business. WHO NEEDS FILM? 10 DIGITAL FILMS
THAT MADE IT BIG (AND HOW YOU CAN TOO) will be the definitive book. It
will meet the immediate needs of filmmakers, while also offering a
perspective from the business side – agents, producers, distributors,
studios, and financiers – that alternately dispels myths and prompts
innovation. Highly anecdotal, it will profile low-budget successes like Celebration
and The Blair Witch Project, and intersperse first-hand stories
from the filmmakers themselves. There is nothing like WHO NEEDS FILM? on
the market today. It will be the book people turn to over the
next several years, as there is an ever-increasing wave of media
attention about the medium.
Thom
Taylor is the author of THE BIG DEAL: HOLLYWOOD’S MILLION-DOLLAR SPEC
SCRIPT MARKET (William Morrow, 1999), now in its third
printing. He has written for Variety, Locations, Millimeter and
other magazines as well as writing the first article for Movieline.
Thom studied economics at the University of California at Berkeley
and film production at the American Film Institute’s Center from
Advanced Film and Television Studies, and earned an MBA from the
University of Southern California. He has spoken about Hollywood on over
200 NBC radio affiliates, National Public Radio's MarketPlace,
and as a repeat guest on numerous other radio shows. His commentaries on
the film industry have also been featured on CNNfn's "Business
Unusual," CBS Marketwatch, STARZ cable television network, Bay TV's
The Show and in a variety of print-media venues. Melinda Hsu
graduated cum laude from Harvard College and earned a Masters in
Fine Arts from the Film Division of the Columbia University School of
the Arts. A native of Bangor, Maine, she has contributed articles and
short stories to Film Threat, Jane and other magazines and
fiction journals, and wrote and produced her one-woman show, Seventeen
Bananas (shot and edited on DV). Currently, she works as a story
analyst for Dustin Hoffman/Punch Productions.
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Rights:
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Dramatic Rights:
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