num_pages: 350
description: This book is like five books in one! Covering development and script breakdown to budgeting preproduction to production and post to sales and distribution Producer to Producer gives you all the information you need in an easy-to-understand chronological order.Make no mistake this is the DEFINITIVE guide for low-budget independent film producing. Filled with practical advice from over 20 years of production experience by producer Maureen A. Ryan the co-producer of the Academy AwardTM-winning film MAN ON WIRE.This comprehensive guide to low-budget film producing for emerging and professional producers. It is designed to take to production meetings with every aspect of the film-producing process outlined in detail including checklists to keep you on track from 12 weeks before shooting to the first day of principal photography and through postproduction. Don't produce your film without it!This does what no book on production has done before - you actually can go out and make a movie after you read it. Maureen Ryan is one of the best independent producers working today and this book will show you why. Like her it's thorough thoughtful and highly enjoyable. Whether you are a novice or a professional there is much to learn here.---Ben Odell Producer Padre Nuestro Partner Panamax FilmsFinally a book that lays out practically how to get through a shoot. No one ever tells you this stuff --- you're expected to learn it the hard way... until now. Written by one of the best producers I've ever worked with.---Paul Cotter Writer/director: BOMBER; Estes AvenueThis is THE book for producers. Nowhere else will you find the wisdom insight and tried and-true nuts-and-bolts know-how found here.---Sheila Curran Dennin Writer/director: RED FLAG; Becoming Medusa
language: English
title: Producer to Producer: A Step-By-Step Guide to Low-Budgets Independent Film Producing
publisher: Michael Wiese Productions