The Angry Filmmaker's Survival Guide . . .                   

I am the poster boy for bad decision making in the Independent Film world! 

I have made 8 short films, three features and a couple of documentaries, along with a ton of corporate videos, and commercials.   I have whored myself on other people's movies for more than 20+ years.  There are certain truths I have learned, and certain things and people I shouldn't have listened to.  I have messed up my life financially, emotionally, and probably physically and it's all been for my love of movies.  My movies.  

A lot of people ask me why I'm angry.  I am the Angry Filmmaker after all.   What makes me angry is the state of INDEPENDENT films. The independent film industry is no longer even remotely independent. It’s been mainstreamed by Hollywood and is now simply another over-hyped product. Like commercial radio, pop music and Starbucks coffee, the industry has become a homogenized mess of conglomerates owned by a handful of extremely powerful corporations. It begs the question: Independent from what?

We need to take the word "Independent" back!  Indie has become a marketing phrase.  I have a tough time sitting thru a 10 million dollar "indie" movie.  I want people to recognize that "indie" doesn't mean stars and all of that other crap.  WE are Independent Filmmakers" and WE make movies whether WE have a deal or not.  I want to see more theaters and media art centers providing places for us to show our work, instead of just giving us lip service about how they support independent film.  I am fed up with these "independent" film festivals who show all these movies with big names in them.  I think Sundance and any other film festival that calls themselves independent shouldn't take films with budgets of more than $100,000.  That ought to weed out the phonies...

For me, filmmaking is all about the work.  All about the story.  If making a movie is just one of those things you think would be cool to do, then don't do anything.  There are already enough posers and bad movies out there.  We don't need anymore.

But if you are like me, if making your movie is the most important thing.  Then keep moving forward.  If making a movie was so easy, there would be a lot more movies out there.  But making a movie is hard!  Making a good movie is even harder! 

I make my films because I have to!  I have stories to tell and I won't be satisfied until my movie is done, and out in front of audiences.

The Angry Filmmaker’s Survival Guide seeks to restore order to this once venerable filmmaking arena by providing young, new and even old-hand, jaded and bitter filmmakers with a practical guide to independent filmmaking.   In that I qualify as an “expert” by any acceptable or measurable standard, my book offers not only practical, step-by-step, easily accessible information about the craft, but it offers plenty of attitude about the state of this world of independent film.  And is entertaining reading...

I make the films that I want to make and at a cost that doesn't break the bank!

What I have learned is that if you do something, you need to go all the way.  Go big, or go home! 
If you are interested in a book that is all about Real Independent Filmmaking then this is one you will want to own.  We are going to be self publishing this book.  Help us make it a reality and donate to our cause.

We need to raise around $1200 to get it published, and we want to do it the right way.  With your help we can do it.