Hollywood Creative Directory

The authoritative, easy-to-use source for finding entertainment professionals. It’s like a gigantic Hollywood phone book, packed with names, numbers, addresses, and current titles of executives from film and television. Studios, production companies, television networks, and cable channels are listed with their preferred genres, selected credits, projects in development, and deals. Includes a section with network, primetime, and major cable TV shows currently in production. Comprehensive and up-to-the-minute (published three times annually), the directory is used by studios, directors, producers, writers, actors, --everyone who wants to make it in Hollywood. Let Hollywood Creative Directory be your guide to getting your foot in the door!

Filmmakers and Financing: Business Plans for Independents

"An excellent, insightful guide to attracting financing for indie films. Louise Levison takes a sane, balanced approach to research, comparables and projections, achieving honest outlooks in business plans that are accurate and convincing to equity investors. An important tool for filmmakers and producers seeking innovative financing models."
-- Danny Glover, Actor/Director/Producer

"Thank you so much for all your help from the business plan to the emails and introductions. You have helped this film become what it is today."
-- Robin Cowie, Producer, The Blair Witch Project

43 Ways to Finance Your Feature Film: A Comprehensive Analysis of Film Finance

This is a classic guide to independent film financing and includes a discussion of new federal laws. Focusing on feature films, the comprehensive guide is also relevant to projects such as short films, documentaries, videos, multimedia presentations, and theatrical endeavors.

Independent Feature Film Production: A Complete Guide from Concept Through Distribution

"This book is a must. It is a straightforward, insightful, and articulate account of what it takes to make a successful feature film."
--Ridley Scott, director of Alien, Blade Runner, and Thelma & Louise

"Saves one from having to learn the hard way."
--David Lynch, director of Lost Highway and Blue Velvet

From Reel to Deal: Everything You Need to Create a Successful Independent Film

Based on his acclaimed "2-Day Film School"(tm), Dov S-S Simens serves up a flawless and detailed blueprint for creating successful independent films. With his signature in-your-face, no-holds-barred advice, the Godfather of Independent Film teaches readers everything they need to know to create full-length feature films. From screenwriting to distribution.

By the end of the book, readers will know exactly what to do to make their films.

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

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.