Friday, August 10, 2012

Produce Your Own Damn Movie

And now some advertising: There is another new 2 Disc DVD Box-Set of the great Lloyd Kaufman PRODUCE YOUR OWN DAMN MOVIE! Lloyd teaches us how to maximize Production Values with small budgets, finding great locations, developping business plans and how to pre-sell your own damn movie. I am very flattered, we are also in this docu, Lloyd made interviews with us during shooting of THE MOONLIGHT ORCHIDS in 2010. Besides Michael Huck you will meet on this dvd-docu on independent filmmaking also interviews with some newcomers like David Cronenberg, Roger Corman, Joe Dante, James Gunn and Avi Lerner.They all have some wonderful advise for filmmakers. The advise Gordon Herschell Lewis gives to us is soemthing, even Ms Denier, who thinks of herself as a "professional" (she told me so!!!) could something learn. Gordon Herschell tells us, there is one cardinal S I N in filmmaking: to not finish a movie and stop half the way. The lesson is: No matter what happens: A L W A Y S finish the movie! That´s how professionals work. And amateurs too, amateur means this is someone who loves what he does, so even amateurs will finish a movie. I am still thinking of a name for someone who does NOT finish a movie and runs away from a movie set;
anyway Ms Denier could write a new book and may I suggest the title: Produce Your Own Damn Waterloo...