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Elliot Grove uses a hands-on approach to screenwriting based on his many years experience teaching the subject for Raindance training. He uses step-by-step processes illustrated with diagrams and charts to lend a visual structure to the teaching. Techniques are related to real-life examples throughout, from low budget to blockbuster films. The accompanying CD-ROM contains interviews with British directors, producers and writers. It also contains sample scripts and legal contracts, a writing exercise illustrated with a video clip, a folder full of useful hyperlinks for research, and a demo version of Final Draft screenwriting software. The CD-ROM contains interviews with British directors Declan Lowney (Father Ted), Gillies Mackinnon (Redemption, Hideous Kinky), Pawel Pawlikowski (The Last Resort), producers Nik Powell (The Crying Game) and Norma Heyman (Dangerous Liaisons, Mary Reilly) and writer Andrew Shea (The Corndog Man) The CD also contains sample scripts and legal contracts, a writing exercise illustrated with a video clip, a folder full of useful hyperlinks for research, and a demo version of Final Draft screenwriting software. Elliot Grove is Founder and Director of the Raindance Film Festival - the largest independent film festival in Europe - and also founder of the British Independent Film Awards. He teaches professional scriptwriting and lo-to-no budget courses as well as the weekend master-class, Write the Hot Script' in London and overseas. Many of Elliot's former students have gone on to make commercially successful films (including Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels!). Elliot has produced 3 features and over 50 short films .

Steven Soderbergh's cinema-making star has blazed with sex, lies, and videotape, sputtered with The Underneath, and flared again with the acclaimed movie Traffic. Steven Soderbergh: Interviews charts the rise and fall and rise of the writer-director-producer's surprising career from 1989 to 2001. From his "flavor of the month" status with his debut film sex, lies, and videotape to his Academy Award -- winning feature Traffic, Soderbergh's road to success is fraught with ups and downs. On each and every film, the book details such experiences as his creative crisis surrounding his fourth film, The Underneath, and his rejuvenation with the ultra-low budget free-style Schizopolis, and the mainstream achievements that followed with Erin Brockovich and Traffic. Spanning twelve years, these conversations reveal Soderbergh (b. 1963) to be as self-effacing and lighthearted in his later more established years as he was when just starting out. He comes across as a man undaunted by the glitz and power of Hollywood, remaining, above all, a truly independent filmmaker unafraid to get his hands dirty and pick up the camera himself. Not only do the interviews provide a glimpse into the filmmaker's aesthetics, but they also offer a history of the U.S. independent film movement in the late 1980s and 1990s -- the explosion of "independent films, " studios and film festivals, and the Hollywood co-optation of such talents, Soderbergh included. The collection also reveals the increasingly blurred boundaries between independent and mainstream and Soderbergh's commitment to revitalizing cinema from inside the system.

The Dark Avengers - film - The Dark Avengers is an independent film made in and around Dallas, Texas from fall 2003 - spring 2005. The film, being a "realistic take" on the superhero myth, focuses on the character of Bryan Yuen Sage, portrayed by actor/director/composer/editor Brandon Slagle, who has spent two years of his life as a vigilante who works with a forensics specialist (Brad Fincher) in a vendetta against the criminals of the city.

Film Forum - The New York City cinema Film Forum began in 1970 as an alternative screening space for independent films, with 50 folding chairs, one projector and a US$19,000 annual budget. Karen Cooper became director in 1972 and under her leadership, Film Forum moved downtown to the Vandam Theater in 1975.

Mystery Train (film) - Mystery Train is a 1989 comedy movie written and directed by independent film director Jim Jarmusch and set in Memphis, Tennessee.

Anytown, USA (film) - Anytown, USA is a 2005 documentary produced by director Kristian Fraga on the mayoral race in Bogota, New Jersey. The mayoral race was between Republican Steven Lonegan, Democrat Fred Pesce and independent Dave Musikant.

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Independent Film - Independent Film Independent Film Channel - The Independent Film Channel (IFC), launched in September, 1994, is a premium digital cable channel dedicated to presenting independent films, unedited and commercial-free. It also features documentaries, award shows, and other programs related to independent film. New York International Independent Film and Video Festival - The New York International Independent Film and Video Festival (NYIIFVF) is the largest film festival in the world. Founded in 1993 by entertainment impresario Stuart Alson, NYIIFVF has been recognized by ...

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