Make Your Own Damn Movie!

Lloyd Kaufman the writer/producer/director of such cult-classic films as The Toxic Avenger Class of Nuke ''Em High and Tromeo and Juliet offers a guide to movie-making unlike any other available anywhere. In 25 years Kaufman along with partner Michael Herz has built Troma Studios up from a company struggling to find its voice in a field crowded with competitors to its current--and legendary--status as a lone survivor a bastion of true cinematic independence and the world''s greatest collection of camp on film.As entertaining and funny as it is informative and insightful Make Your Own Damn Movie! places Kaufman''s radically low-budget independent-studio style of filmaking directly in the reader''s hands. Thus we learn how to: develop and write a knock-out screenplay; raise funding; find locations and cast actors; hire a crew; obtain equipment permits and music rights (all for little or no money); make incredible special effects for $0.79 each; charm schmooze and network while on the film-festival circuit; and finally make a bad actor act so bad it''s actually good.From scriptwriting and directing to financing and marketing this book is brimming with utterly off-the-wall decidedly maverick yet consistently proven advice on how to fully develop one''s idea for an independent film.