First Time Director: How to Make Your Breakthrough Movie

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Directing is a high wire act. For first time directors the pressures can be magnified a hundred fold, since they usually have only one shot to make a splash in the independent film community. This book teaches first time directors how to make the most of their first opportunity using straight forward, results-orientated instructions. 'First Time Director' also contains a Foreword by Robert Zemekis, Oscar Winning Director of Forrest Gump, Cast Away, What Lies Beneath, Contact, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Back to the Future I, II, III.

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'It is a survival guide for working with producers, technicians and actors in the usual atmosphere of tension and chaos. A valuable book by an experienced director that demystifies filmmaking.' Irvin Kershner, Director, Star Wars V - The Empire Strikes Back