The Guerilla Film Makers Pocketbook: The Ultimate Guide to Digital Film Making

by Chris Jones, Genevieve Jolliffe, Andrew Zinnes

IF YOU'VE NEVER MADE A FILM BEFORE, THIS AMAZING BOOK WILL TELL * How other young film makers made their first movie and found massive success
* How to take your great ideas and turn them into great films
* How to build a team to make your movie now
* How to harness cheap technology to make expensive looking films
* How to avoid hundreds of pitfalls many other film makers will fall into
* How to find audiences and even make money from your movie Veterans of the indie film scene, the authors have produced numerous low budget feature films, sold projects to Hollywood studios, come perilously close to an Oscar nomination, and even ended up in prison! They're also the team behind the best selling Guerilla Film Makers Handbooks series, selling over 100,000 copies around the world and they've taught thousands of emerging film makers the key skills needed to make their own great movies to launch a career. Their offices are at Ealing Studios in London and in Los Angeles.

Genres: Film, Nonfiction

320 pages, Paperback

First published March 18, 2010

About the author

* Founder of Create50
* Author of The Guerilla Filmmakers Handbooks series.
* Filmmaker with four features and an Oscar shortlisted short under his belt.
* Creative director at the London Screenwriters’ Festival
* Founder of TEDxEaling

Passionate about all things film, I have spent my life watching movies, making movies and helping others make their movies. My major projects include action thriller ‘The Runner’, serial killer thriller ‘White Angel’ and paranormal horror ‘Urban Ghost Story’.

I also co-created and authored The Guerilla Film Makers Handbook series, and currently there are eight editions! I also made the multi-award winning and Oscars shortlisted film ‘Gone Fishing’.

I run the London Screenwriters Festival. TEDxEaling, as well as other training masterclasses.

In 2014 we completed our feature film, the crowd created 50 Kisses which entered the Guinness Book Of Records for most screenwriters on a feature film.

In 2016 we release our first Create50 book, Twisted50, available in soft back and Kindle.

I run regular film making workshops for filmmakers with low price points so everyone can attend and get making their projects.

Right now, I am developing the feature film ‘Rocketboy’ and running more Create50 projects.

Read my blog at www.ChrisJonesBlog.com

Reviews

[Clare O'Beara · Rating 5 out of 5]

Concise and brilliant.
Practical from top to bottom, packed with case studies, interviews with people who have done it all and are willing to share the secrets of specialties from script to makeup to camera to production to editing to marketing to agenting.... and on a micro or no budget.

Read it. There are some typos, probably caused by the tiny text size.
I borrowed this book from the Dublin Business School Library and if making films on a longer frame I would buy a copy myself.
This is an unbiased review.

[Nathan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Taught me new things, left the last couple of chapters out but may return once ready. (Uni student researching filmmaking and screen acting)
short and simple easy to learn would recommend

[Domkat Bulus · Rating 1 out of 5]

I want to read this book

[Dale Sadler · Rating 5 out of 5]

Highly informative and engaging book. It really helped me as a first-time indie filmmaker.

[Nasib · Rating 4 out of 5]

this book will help me in showing the proper path towards the field in which i want to pursue
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[Slurry222 · Rating 3 out of 5]

Excellent overview for the microbudget filmmaker.