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The big news from the 2003 Sundance Film Festival: The number of short films submitted to the festival increased an astonishing 40% over the previous year! Thanks to increasingly accessible and affordable filmmaking tools, more and more aspiring auteurs are making short films – many outside of the structured environment of film school. Prepared to invest their time, money and dreams, these do-it-yourselfers are eager to learn how to make a short film and parlay it into a career as a director.
This book brings together the artistic and business sides of filmmaking, containing everything an aspiring filmmaker needs to know to successfully make, exhibit and sell a short film. Packed with extensive advice from experts, this step-by-step guide reveals common production pitfalls, the secret to press kits that work, how to get rich off a short film and much more.
What people say
“Books counseling entertainment biz shortcuts and shorthand are a dime a dozen but tomes with more practicable working knowledge and advice are harder to come by. The Ultimate Filmmakers Guide to Short Films: Making it Big in Shorts falls into the latter category and does a good job of providing aspirant filmmakers with a solid foundation of material from which to base their attack on Tinseltown.
“It has tips on thinking and acting like a successful short filmmaker, advice on how to fix and manage your budget and counsel on avoiding common production and postproduction pitfalls.”
Jonah Fule,
Entertainment Today
“Kim Adelman has not only taught me the nuts and bolts of short filmmaking, more importantly she gave me a strong sense of empowerment.”
Lexi Alexander,
Director of the 2002 Academy Award-nominated live action short Johnny Flynton
“The definitive guide to everything any short filmmaker needs know. If this book had been around when I made my film, I would have slept a lot better.”
Noah Edelson,
Director: 78 (Sundance Film Festival, 1997)