The Cheerful Subversive’s Guide toIndependent Filmmaking

Award-winning film director and Slamdance Film Festival co-founder Dan Mirvish offers a rich exploration of the process and culture of making low-budget, independent films. Once labeled a “cheerful subversive” by The New York Times, Mirvish shares his unfiltered pragmatic approach to writing or acquiring screenplays, casting and directing both A-list and no-list actors, financing, producing, managing a crew, post-production, navigating the film festival circuit without going broke, distributing your film, mounting an Oscar® campaign, dealing with piracy and building a career.

Mirvish gives you soup-to-nuts, cradle-to-grave detailed advice on every aspect of the filmmaking lifestyle and ...