The Independent Film Producer's Survival Guide: A Business and Legal Sourcebook

Everything you need to know to produce and market your independent film, from industry professionals with insider knowledgeBalancing the inevitable tug between art and commerce is a filmmaker's job, but without film commerce, their art will never come into existence, much less reach an audience. The advice presented within The Independent Film Producer's Survival Guide reflects custom and practice in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles, and emphasizes the necessary deals that need to be made to make it in the business.In this comprehensive guidebook, three experienced entertainment lawyers tell you everything you need to know to produce and market an independent film: from the development process to deal making, financing, setting up the production, hiring directors and actors, securing location rights, acquiring music, calculating profits, digital moving making, distribution, and marketing your movie. The Independent Film Producer's Survival Guide shepherds filmmakers through the sometimes muddled world of entertainment law, and the result is more sophisticated independent films being financed, produced, and distributed.

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The Independent Film Producer's Survival Guide: A Business and Legal Sourcebook

Everything you need to know to produce and market your independent film, from industry professionals with insider knowledgeBalancing the inevitable tug between art and commerce is a filmmaker's job, but without film commerce, their art will never come into existence, much less reach an audience. The advice presented within The Independent Film Producer's Survival Guide reflects custom and practice in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles, and emphasizes the necessary deals that need to be made to make it in the business.In this comprehensive guidebook, three experienced entertainment lawyers tell you everything you need to know to produce and market an independent film: from the development process to deal making, financing, setting up the production, hiring directors and actors, securing location rights, acquiring music, calculating profits, digital moving making, distribution, and marketing your movie. The Independent Film Producer's Survival Guide shepherds filmmakers through the sometimes muddled world of entertainment law, and the result is more sophisticated independent films being financed, produced, and distributed.

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The Independent Film Producer's Survival Guide: A Business and Legal Sourcebook

The Independent Film Producer's Survival Guide: A Business and Legal Sourcebook

The Independent Film Producer's Survival Guide: A Business and Legal Sourcebook

The Independent Film Producer's Survival Guide: A Business and Legal Sourcebook

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Overview

Everything you need to know to produce and market your independent film, from industry professionals with insider knowledgeBalancing the inevitable tug between art and commerce is a filmmaker's job, but without film commerce, their art will never come into existence, much less reach an audience. The advice presented within The Independent Film Producer's Survival Guide reflects custom and practice in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles, and emphasizes the necessary deals that need to be made to make it in the business.In this comprehensive guidebook, three experienced entertainment lawyers tell you everything you need to know to produce and market an independent film: from the development process to deal making, financing, setting up the production, hiring directors and actors, securing location rights, acquiring music, calculating profits, digital moving making, distribution, and marketing your movie. The Independent Film Producer's Survival Guide shepherds filmmakers through the sometimes muddled world of entertainment law, and the result is more sophisticated independent films being financed, produced, and distributed.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781468314748
Publisher: The Overlook Press
Publication date: 01/15/2010
Edition description: Reissue
Pages: 416
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 4.40(d)

About the Author

Gunnar Erickson is a graduate of Stanford University and Yale Law School. He practiced over twenty years with Los Angeles entertainment law firms and presently runs the Erickson Law Firm in
Malibu, California. He has been active with the UCLA Entertainment Law
Symposium and formerly taught Entertainment Law at Pepperdine Law
School and has frequently spoken and written about entertainment matters.

Mark Halloran is a principal of Halloran Law Corporation. In his studio days, Halloran was Vice President, Feature Business Affairs at Universal
Pictures, and Business Affairs Counsel at Orion Pictures. In private law practice, he was a founding partner of Alexander, Halloran, Nau
& Rose, and Erickson, Halloran & Small, specializing in entertainment financing, production and distribution, and acts as an expert witness in film, television and music litigation. He is co-author of The Musician’s Guide to Copyright and The
Musicians Business and Legal Guide. He is co-chair of the SC Institute on
Entertainment Law and Business, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Chamber Singers.

Harris E. Tulchin is founder and Chairman of Harris Tulchin &
Associates, Ltd., with affiliated offices worldwide. He is a graduate of Cornell University and Hastings Law School and has specialized in entertainment production, finance, and distribution, communications, and multimedia law since 1978. He has lectured extensively at forums such as UCLA, the American Film Institute, Independent Feature Project, The
Sundance Producer’s Conference, the Cannes, Toronto, Los Angeles
Independent, Hollywood, Venice, Edinburgh (Scotland) and numerous other
Film Festivals and has published numerous articles on entertainment law.

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