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  • The Cheerful Subversive's Guide to Independent Filmmaking

  • By: Dan Mirvish
  • Narrated by: Dan Mirvish
  • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins

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The Cheerful Subversive's Guide to Independent Filmmaking

By: Dan Mirvish
Narrated by: Dan Mirvish
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Publisher's Summary

In this fully updated second edition, award-winning film director and Slamdance Film Festival cofounder Dan Mirvish gives you soup-to-nuts, cradle-to-grave advice on every aspect of the filmmaking lifestyle and craft. He drops advice on playing the Hollywood and indie-film games, and shows you how to finance, cast, shoot and show your indie feature, documentary, episodic series, short film, student film, web video or big-budget blockbuster. Includes extensive tips on film festivals, distribution and continuing and sustaining your career. Once labeled a "cheerful subversive" by The New York Times, Mirvish shares lessons he's learned personally from film luminaries Robert Altman, Christopher Nolan, Bong Joon-ho, Steven Soderbergh, Rian Johnson, Whit Stillman, Harold Ramis, Lynn Shelton, John Carpenter, the Russo Brothers, Emma Thompson, Sean Baker, and more.

This revised edition includes brand new chapters on filming safely during a global pandemic, finding investors and crowdfunding backers, whether and where to go to film school, how to get a big Hollywood agent, when and how to self-distribute your film, selling it to airlines, casting an Oscar-winner as your lead actor, turning your garage into a 1980s New York subway, and an appendix with Dan's exclusive secret list of film festivals worth considering. The audiobook is narrated by Dan Mirvish, himself.

©2021 Dan Mirvish (P)2022 Dan Mirvish

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