Film Production

10 Tips for Setting Up Local Screenings of Your Film describes how to set up a series of local screenings in your community and nearby cities if you are doing your own distribution. It describes how to determine your audience, select the best location for your screening, find a venue, and attract an audience. It also describes how to collect payments, run the program, and build on these showings to gain an even bigger audience at future showings.

10 Tips for Setting Up Local Screenings for Your Film describes how to set up a series of local screenings in your community and nearby cities if you are doing your own distribution. It describes how to determine your audience and the best location for your screening, how to find a venue, and how attract an audience. It also describes how to collect payments, run the program, and build on these showings to gain even more of an audience for future showings.

10 Tips for Setting Up Theatrical Screening for Your Film describes how to set up a series of screening after your initial premiere. It suggests doing these additional screenings to get more recognition for a film with broad appeal, and it describes how and where to select theaters in different cities. It indicates the kinds of costs to expect for showings in different types of theaters and recommends creating a marketing plan to guide you in doing these screenings to gain more recognition to help with the other types of distribution you do.

10 Ways to Find a Distributor for Your Film describes how to best pitch your script to distributors, starting with having a good script, writing an effective query letter, creating a short treatment or synopsis, and taking steps to make your script stand out. The audiobook is part of a series of short books, in which each book features tips and techniques for becoming more successful in the film industry.

The audiobook 10 Tips for Entering Your Film in Film Festivals describes how to choose which festivals to enter among the thousands of film festivals each year. It explains the advantages of entering and attending local festivals, discusses online festivals, and suggests ways to increase your chances of your film being selected in a festival competition. It also lists many of the most popular and coolest festivals to enter.

Short Film Structure Secrets - Short Films - There's no secret that structuring a short film can be a difficult process because of how condensed short films can be in relation to a feature film. Author Chike Camara has done it again. This book demystifies the process and gives you a breakdown of some of the most common short film types, how their structures work, why their structures work and how to take your own short film idea to the next level. In a way, it teaches you how to create a short film as well.

10 Tips for Making a Final to Do List for Distributing Your Film summarizes the key tasks to do to successfully distribute your film. It features key marketing and promotion tasks, such as creating a poster, trailer, and press materials, setting up a website or page on your website for the film, making arrangements with a website, and more. The book is part of a series of short books, in which each book features tips and techniques for becoming more successful in the film industry.

10 Tips for Making Your Own Distribution Arrangements for Your Film describes how you can distribute your film through various online video platforms including aggregators and your own website. It discusses the different types of video platforms, including third-party aggregators and video on demand (VOD) sales platforms.

A rollicking, provocative, racy, colorful irreverent show business memoir culled from Michael Kutza’s decades rubbing elbows with the giants of film at the Chicago International Film Festival and numerous other festivals around the globe. It includes many of the lowlights as well as the highlights of a life lived just off-screen.

Rede an die Filmakademie: o. Univ. Prof. Peter Patzak, Institutsleiter der Filmakademie, an der Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, begrüßt die Filmschaffenden und Freunde der Filmakademie am 18. Juni 2009 anlässlich der jährlichen Galaveranstaltung im neu gestalteten Orang-Utan Haus, Tiergarten Schönbrunn. Dort wo viele Jahre davor die Studios der Filmakademie und das Regiebüro von Peter Patzak zu Hause waren.

Paris, Texas, directed by Wim Wenders and written by Sam Shepard, with adaptation by L.M. Kit Carson, and starring Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, and Hunter Carson, among others. Melinda Camber Porter passed away from ovarian cancer in 2008 and left behind a significant body of work in art, journalism, and literature. With her background as a journalist for The Times of London, her interviews had a unique way of getting to the heart of the creative process.

Often considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, Stanley Kubrick has been widely praised for taking risks such as doing at least one film in a number of genres to avoid being pigeonholed into certain styles or expectations. Yet he still received a great deal of support from big Hollywood studios and mass audiences. From his humble beginnings as a chess enthusiast and photographer for Look Magazine who did not excel in academics to a legendary filmmaker who eventually had creative and financial autonomy over the majority.

Today's most acclaimed film directors reveal intimate behind-the-scenes details of their most influential work and their unique approaches to their art. In the companion to the Silver Plaque-winning Starz/Encore documentary series, this book offers interviews with 13 top filmmakers. Contains each director's filmography, complete listings of major awards, and cast credits for all films discussed.

Robert Altman - visionary director, hard-partying hedonist, eccentric family man, Hollywood legend - comes roaring to life in this rollicking cinematic biography, told in a chorus of voices that can only be called Altmanesque.

Today's most acclaimed film directors reveal intimate behind-the-scenes details of their most influential work and their unique approaches to their art. In the companion to the Silver Plaque-winning Starz/Encore documentary series, this book offers interviews with 13 top filmmakers. Contains each director's filmography, complete listings of major awards, and cast credits for all films discussed.

For the centennial of his birth, the defining wunderkind of modern entertainment gets his due in a groundbreaking new biography of his early years - from his first forays in theater and radio to the inspiration and making of Citizen Kane. No American artist or entertainer has enjoyed a more dramatic rise than Orson Welles. In this magisterial biography, Patrick McGilligan brings young Orson into focus as never before.

10 Tips for Increasing Your Chances of Getting into Film Festivals describes how to select the festivals where you have the best chance for being selected and suggests ways to up the likelihood your film will be selected. Some of the strategies described include entering early, writing compelling letters and press releases to show how your film is aligned with the goals of the festival, and more.

10 Keys for Doing Your Own Film Distribution describes the many advantages of doing your own distribution when you haven’t found a distributor, or to help you find a distributor. It also provides an overview of the many different platforms for distributing your film, from contacting retail channels, to setting up your own showings and selling off your website.

10 Tips for Increasing Your Chances of Getting Attention and Awards at Film Festivals describes how to get more attention and awards by using various strategies to increase attendance and press coverage. It suggests ways to make more connections when you are there or using a surrogate to represent you. It recommends different techniques you can use online and in creating flyers, posters, and other materials to promote your festival screening.

10 Legal Basics for Producing a Feature Film or Documentary describes the major legal documentaries you need to produce a feature-length film or documentary. It covers the basics of getting a fictitious name, filing for a copyright, obtaining E&O and other types of insurance, creating release forms for actors, interviewees, crew members, and other film participants, and much more.