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    The Independent Filmmaker's Law and Business Guide: Financing, Shooting, and Distributing Independent and Digital Films
    The Independent Filmmaker's Law and Business Guide: Financing, Shooting, and Distributing Independent and Digital Films
    The Independent Filmmaker's Law and Business Guide: Financing, Shooting, and Distributing Independent and Digital Films
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    The Independent Filmmaker's Law and Business Guide: Financing, Shooting, and Distributing Independent and Digital Films

    By Jon M. Garon

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    Preparing independent or guerrilla filmmakers for the legal, financial, and organizational questions that can doom a project if unanswered, this guide demystifies issues such as developing a concept, founding a film company, obtaining financing, securing locations, casting, shooting, granting screen credits, distributing, exhibiting, and marketing a film. Updated to include digital marketing and distribution strategies through YouTube or webisodes, it also anticipates the "problems" generated by a blockbuster hit: sound tracks, merchandizing, and licensing. Six appendices provide sample contracts, copyright forms and circulars, Writer’s Guild of America definitions for writing credits, and studio contact information.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChicago Review Press
    Release dateJun 1, 2009
    ISBN9781569763971
    The Independent Filmmaker's Law and Business Guide: Financing, Shooting, and Distributing Independent and Digital Films

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