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We all love something AMAZING and FREE! Film makers, download a great book on social media and film making!

We all love something AMAZING and FREE! Film makers, download a great book on social media and film making!

As the debate around BECTU and the minimum wage rages onward (read my post here and the replies at the bottom of the post), so a great example of the future for film makers appears online for free. Yes free. Not always free though, it’s a paid for book sometimes, but right now, this week [...]

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The need for failure in YOUR film making success strategy…

The need for failure in YOUR film making success strategy…

We are just six days away from completing the new Guerilla Film Makers Pocketbook. Once it’s done, plans for the big launch in Cannes, the announcement of our new movie and the rolling out of some exciting and innovative all new film maker workshops will get underway (join the newsgroup here to get emails about [...]

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New Digital Film Makers Pocketbook nears completion

New Digital Film Makers Pocketbook nears completion

We are getting very close to completing the all new Digital Film Makers Pocketbook – a guerilla film makers handbook for the digital age. And isn’t it tiny! In fact isn’t this 'mock up' tiny, this isn’t the final book. And actually, this isn’t the final cover either (it's with a designer now), but it [...]

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Interviewing Eran Creevy about 'Shifty'

Interviewing Eran Creevy about 'Shifty'

The final interview I did for the Guerilla Film Makers Pocketbook last week was with writer and director of Microwave Brit feature ‘Shifty’, Eran Creevy. Immediately likeable and extremely energetic, it’s not hard to see how Eran has achieved so much in so little time. In only a few years, he has gone from runner [...]

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Enter… The Black Hole…

Enter… The Black Hole…

‘People laughed at the end of the screening, and we thought huh, this isn’t funny is it? It’s an indictment of human greed…’ Said co-director Olly Williams, proving that artists don’t always know what they have created.  If you have not seen it, do yourself a treat now and watch this two minute gen above, [...]

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The All New Digital Guerilla Film Makers Pocket Book!

The All New Digital Guerilla Film Makers Pocket Book!

We have begun work on a new Guerilla Film Makers book, not an update to the last one, but a whole new book. It’s going to be called The Digital Guerilla Film Makers Pocketbook. Yes you guessed, it’s going to be tiny but very dense. The focus is going to be entirely on ultra low [...]

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US Indie Guerilla Film Makers… Literally!

US Indie Guerilla Film Makers… Literally!

There’s a new film making book out there, a kind of Rebel Without A Crew for 2009, called ‘Either You’re In or You’re In The Way’, about Logan and Noah Miller, who managed to make a top notch US indie feature called ‘Touching Home’, starring Ed Harris. They had no past experience, contacts or budget. [...]

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Joe Esterhas’ ‘The Devil’s Guide to Hollywood: The Screenwriter as God’

Joe Esterhas’ ‘The Devil’s Guide to Hollywood: The Screenwriter as God’

I have just finished reading Joe Eszterhas’ book,‘The Devil’s Guide to Hollywood: The Screenwriter as God’ which I picked up in the USA and is now out in the UK in paperback. I have always respected Esterhas (most famous for ‘Basic Instinct’ and high profile script auctions) as an outspoken rebel against the Hollywood machine, [...]

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