November 2012
Beginner
215 pages
7h 18m
English
Movie making has entered another amazing new era. The art and craft of creating the moving image is no longer only the stuff of dreams. Hollywood’s major studios have dominated the world of filmmaking since the 1940s. Once, no one outside the system could hope to get close to a studio picture deal without a serious investment of time, money, and power lunches. But then the massive success of the Sundance Film Festival changed how the public looked at the movie maker. The actual festival began in 1978, but it was the takeover by the Sundance Institute in 1985 that elevated its status, and independent filmmaking soon moved into the mainstream. But all those indie films we enjoyed were still being manipulated and distributed by ...