Often low-budget filmmakers get thrown into the position of being not only the director, but their own producer. Using tips from the finest washed-up has-been producers in the business, this book will give the low-budget filmmaker practical tools for getting a movie shoot started, and keeping it going until it is supposed to end. From budgeting concerns to production-damaging acts of God, all will be discussed.


* Learn the secrets of producing, from finding investors (Mom & Dad, your local dentist) to location scouting (Can Tijuana pass for New York City?) and more!
* Essential low-budget producing information from the president of Troma Entertainment, the oldest truly independent film studio in history
* Loaded with examples from producers like James Gunn (Dawn of the Dead), Steven Paul (Ghost Rider), and more