Tell Them It's A Dream Sequence: And Other Smart Advice from Top Filmmakers
Written by John Gaspard
Narrated by John Gaspard
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About this audiobook
Is it your dream to make feature films?
Get advice on how to do that by some of the best in the business!
It’s like going to film school without ever leaving home.
Valuable Lessons on Making a Successful Feature Film.
Includes great tips and ideas from:
- Steven Soderbergh (“sex, lies & videotape”)
- Roger Corman (“Little Shop of Horrors”)
- Jon Favreau (“Swingers”)
- Rebecca Miller (“Personal Velocity”)
- Kenneth Lonergan (“You Can Count on Me”)
- Henry Jaglom (“Venice/Venice”)
- Miranda July (“Me and You and Everyone We Know”)
- Bob Odenkirk (“Melvin Goes to Dinner”)
- Dan O'Bannon (“Dark Star”)
- Whit Stillman (“Metropolitan”)
- Jonathan Lynn (“My Cousin Vinny”)
- Carol Littleton (“The Big Chill”)
- Dan Futterman (“Capote”)
- Joan Micklin Silver (“Hester Street”)
- Griffin Dunne (“Lisa Picard is Famous”)
- Stuart Gordon (“Re-Animator”)
- Kasi Lemmons (“Eve’s Bayou”)
- George Romero (“Martin”)
- Tom Noonan (“What Happened Was…”)
- Daniel Myrick (“The Blair Witch Project”)
And many more!
Topics covered include getting started, scripting, pre-production, production, post-production and distribution.
John Gaspard
John is author of the Eli Marks mystery series as well as three other stand-alone novels, "The Greyhound of the Baskervilles," The Sword & Mr. Stone" and "The Ripperologists."He also writes the Como Lake Players mystery series, under the pen name Bobbie Raymond.In real life, John's not a magician, but he has directed six low-budget features that cost very little and made even less - that's no small trick. He's also written multiple books on the subject of low-budget filmmaking. Ironically, they've made more than the films.Those books ("Fast, Cheap and Under Control" and "Fast, Cheap and Written That Way") are available in eBook, Paperback and audiobook formats.John lives in Minnesota and shares his home with his lovely wife, several dogs, a few cats and a handful of pet allergies.
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