About the Book:
Firsthand knowledge and advice on every aspect of forming a film production company is here in one source!
Film production company owners, entertainment attorneys, accountants and distributors answer the most commonly asked questions on forming and running a successful film production company. Readers will find proven-effective tips for setting up shop, following a financial plan, working with investors, developing a niche, networking, forming a marketing strategy, getting a film distributed, growing with a successful company, and more.
Independent filmmakers, documentary filmmakers, screenwriters, directors, and others will be informed and entertained by real life anecdotes from a wide range of professionals from the production company trenches.
Award-winning filmmakers talk about their experiences making and marketing corporate, documentary, feature, short, and animated films and share both amusing and insightful anecdotes on how the projects impacted their companies. Whether dreaming about, forming, or promoting one's film production company, this is one jumpstart no film entrepreneur will want to miss.
What people say:
"Jumpstart Your Awesome Film Production Company is a great resource for production company start-ups and independent filmmakers. It gives an interesting and enlightening perspective on an often confusing profession. I could have used it twelve years ago." — John O’Shaughnessy, Cinematographer and Former Owner of Image Dynamics, Inc.
"An insightful writer, Sara Caldwell understands firsthand the passion and toil necessary to get a film production company up and running. Vastly informative and grounded in practicality, this book is essential reading for anyone who's ever toyed with the notion of getting into filmmaking. Read it before taking the plunge." — Thomas R. Conroy, Academy Award nominated Producer
"Not only a new filmmaker's step-by-step guide from inception to distribution, but an inspirational, encouraging work." — Ian Kennedy Martin, Screenwriter, The Sweeney
About the Author:
Writer and producer Sara Caldwell founded Amphion Productions in 1991 and has since generated more than 130 film, television, video, CD-ROM, and satellite teleconference projects for national and international clients. She has been hired to write feature and television scripts for various production companies in Los Angeles and Chicago and is currently a freelance writer/producer for a Discovery Health Channel documentary series. Sara received her Bachelors degree in Communications from the University of Iowa, where she was a member of the Iowa Writer's Workshop.