Produce Your Own Damn Movie!

When it comes to producing, no one speaks with more authority than Lloyd Kaufman, founder of the longest-running independent film studio, Troma Entertainment. He reveals the best ways to seek out investors, scout locations, hire crew and cast talent, navigate legalities, and stay within your budget. Featuring tips from some of the finest producers in the business (Mark Damon, James Gunn, Mark Harris, Tery Jones, Brad Kevoy, Stepehn Paul, and more!) , this book gives filmmakers practical tools for getting a movie shoot started, keeping it afloat and seeing it through to the end. Candid interviews, tips, tricks, and tidbits scattered throughout the book illustrate the many techniques you can employ to produce your own damn movie-Lloyd Kaufman shows you how it's really done.

This volume reveals the secrets of producing a low-budget independent film. Covering everything about production from the initial movie idea, all the way through pre-production and up to the first day of principal photography (including budgeting concerns to production-damaging acts of God), you'll get the inside track to producing your own damn movie.

Produce Your Own Damn Movie! will be your step-by-step guide on the journey to:

* Maximize production values with a minimal budget

* Scout locations

* Different producing models

* Develop business plans

* Pre-selling your movie

Hysterical in tone, filmmakers and producers won't be able to put this book down.

Produce Your Own Damn Movie! is the second volume in the Focal Press series Your Own Damn Film School. Check out the first volume in the series, Direct Your Own Damn Movie!

Introduction: Charlie Kaufman is My Doppelganger or Why I Want to Blow My Fucking Brains Out

Preamble to Chapter 1 Ask Lloyd: Penniless in Pittsburgh

Chapter 1: Producing Models and Car Models or Producing America's Next Top Tromodel

Preamble to Chapter 2 Ask Lloyd: Nervous in Naples

Chapter 2: How I Got a Rabbi To Hate Jews or How I Let Oliver Stone Beat the Crap Out of me to Hone his Producer Skills

Preamble to Chapter 3 Ask Lloyd: So Close in So. Cal

Chapter 3: Film School or Porno? Taint No Difference or My Dinner with Louis Su

Preamble to Chapter 4 Ask Lloyd: Losing It In Las Vegas

Chapter 4: Producing Movies Inevitably Gets You Stoned (and is Really, Really Hard) or A Union Dose of Some Shirley Jackson Optimism Goes a Long Way

Preamble to Chapter 5 Ask Lloyd: Eager in Erie

Chapter 5: Is There a Business Plan? Is IMDB Ass? or Secrets of Financing and Producing from the Pickled Brain of an Elaborate Non-Pyramid Schemer

Intermission: Andy Deemer Production Diaries

Preamble to Chapter 6 Ask Lloyd: Starstruck in Starbucks

Chapter 6: Pre-Sell Your Flick in a Game of Five Card Stud or Go For a Straight Flush

Preamble to Chapter 7 Ask Lloyd: Anxious in Anchorage

Chapter 7: Fuck Me Jesus on a Pogo Stick! - WHERE am I Going to Produce My Own Damn Movie? or The Secrets of The Location Vocation

Preamble to Chapter 8 Ask Lloyd: Pumped Up In Peoria

Chapter 8: How To Do It Hollywood Style or Lloyd Kaufman is the Herpes of the Film Industry. He Won't Go Away.

Preamble to Chapter 9 Ask Lloyd: Frustrated in Frankfurt

Chapter 9: Face the Music: Post-Production and Distribution, or Pump Up Your Production to a Higher Level

Preamble to Afterword Ask Lloyd: Frugal in Fargo

TromAfterword

A Trio of E-mail Exchanges Among Ashley, Elinor and Lloyd, and A Final Final Ending to This Book About Producing

Index

Lloyd Kaufman is one of the very few genuine auteur filmmakers. He has written, produced, and/or directed more than 25 films, including "The Toxic Avenger", "Terror Firmer", "Tromeo and Juliet", and "Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead". Kaufman is president of the world-famous Troma Entertainment, the oldest and, arguably, the longest-running truly independent film studio in history. He is also the president of the IFTA (Independent Film & Television Alliance), whose members produce more than 400 independent films and countless hours of television programming each year and generate more than $4 billion in distribution revenues annually.