The Angry Filmmaker Survival Guide: Making the Extreme No Budget Film

“When it comes to independent filmmaking Kelley Baker is the real thing.  This book is about real filmmaking.”

Brian Johnson – - Author, Screenwriter, and Director

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“Kelley Baker doesn’t beat around the bush – he gets right down to the nitty-gritty heart of the matter right way.  His 12 chapter Survival Guide is a compact, no-holds-barred 12-step program to creating what Baker calls “The Extreme No-Budget Film.”  Baker is on fire about making films.”

Morrie Warshawski – - Consultant and Author (Shaking the Money Tree: The Art of Getting Grants and Donations for Film and Video – 3rd Edition)

(Excerpt)

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

I have made eight 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 the last 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.

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.

“Finally, a film resource that tells it like it is!  As a film festival director, I watch hundreds (if not thousands) of films a year — some good, many flawed.  I wish I could afford to send copies of “Survival Guide: Part 1″ to every director I encounter, to help them identify and correct potential issues before they roll the camera.”

Jon Gann – - Director, DC Shorts Film Festival

(Excerpt)

Too many people finance their films on credit cards, and they go broke!  Their films end up not getting a distributor and they’re left paying 30% interest on a film that no one wants.  Heed the words of noted financial consultant and former NBA player, Charles Barkley, “Credit cards exist to keep poor people poor.”

DON’T USE YOUR DAMN CREDIT CARDS FOR ANYTHING!!!

“This is a great book, written by an impassioned filmmaker who also happens to be a teacher of the first magnitude.  An incredibly rare combination.  Profit from your luck at having stumbled on this gem.”

William M. Akers – - author of Your Screenplay Sucks!  100 Ways To Make It Great, Lifetime Member of the Writers Guild

(Excerpt)

What I have learned is that if you do something, you need to go all the way.  Go big, or go home!

So, read this book, and if you have the guts, you too can become a true “Independent” filmmaker and show your films all over the world.  Or you can be a sell out and go to Hollywood and make Police Academy 54.  It makes no difference to me.

“One of the best books on making your way through the independent filmmaking jungle with justifiably-angry filmmaker Kelley Baker as your top-notch guide: Funny, profane and committed to telling the unblemished truth. Don’t make your next movie until you’ve read this terrific book.”

John Gaspard – - Author, “Digital Filmmaking 101,” “Fast, Cheap and Under Control,” and “Fast, Cheap and Written That Way.”

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