Empowering independent filmmakers to turn the tables on Hollywood-and get their movies made and seen. This concise volume tells you exactly what you need to do to get your movie made and find the perfect audience. Inside Track for Independent Filmmakers is your roadmap to getting your movie made, seen, and distributed. With 11 Inside Tracks and 99 step-by-step tips, you'll discover insider secrets, easy instructions, and time-saving shortcuts for everything you need to know. You'll find tips about approach financiers and speak the language they understand and how to get the perfect casting for your movie. Once you've realised your creative vision this book gives you all the advice you'll need to get your movie seen from working the festival circuit like a pro to making your film incredibly attractive to distributors. It is written in straightforward, everyday language by media expert Adam Leipzig, the past president of National Geographic Films and a former senior executive at Disney, who has supervised more than 25 films.

With storytelling and collaboration as core principles, industry insiders Adam Leipzig (former President of National Geographic Films), and Barry Weiss (former head of animation at Sony Pictures), with Michael Goldman (prominent journalist and industry expert), guide students through the skills and the craft of video and filmmaking. With unparalleled access to the industry's most accomplished and insightful professionals, budding filmmakers will learn techniques from the very best. This book is one students will keep, and keep using, for years. The book can be purchased with the breakthrough online resource, LaunchPad, which combines an e-book with a wealth of time-saving teaching and learning tools. This includes additional case studies and videos tools which enable instructors create video assignments for the class, group, and individual. Launchpad also includes a selection of How Do I? videos - exclusive interviews with filmmakers that offer real advice to students.