How Not to Make a Short Film: Secrets from a Sundance Programmer

By Roberta Marie Munroe

Book Overview

Anyone can make a short film, right? Just grab some friends and your handheld and you can do it in a weekend or two before being accepted to a slew of film festivals, right? Wrong. Roberta Munroe screened short film submissions at Sundance for five years, and is an award-winning short filmmaker in her own right. So she knows a thing or two about how not to make a short film. From the first draft of your script to casting, production, editing, and distribution, this is your one-stop primer for breaking into the business. Featuring interviews with many of today's most talented writers, producers, and directors, as well as revealing stories (e.g., what to do when the skinhead crack addict next door begins screaming obscenities as soon as you call "action") from the sets of her own short films, Roberta walks you through the minefield of mistakes that an aspiring filmmaker can make--so that you don't have to make them yourself.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1401309542
• ISBN13: 9781401309541
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

A Good Resource for Making a Short Film

A pretty good resource for sprouting filmmakers that might be a little green when it comes to making a short film. There are some invaluable tidbits in here that are worth taking a look at.