Still Filmmaking, the Hard Way is a new indie filmmaking cynical case study joint available in all the places humans read books, and has been featured on Indie Film Hustle, Show Don’t Tell, Film Shortage, & Raindance.

Read an excerpt from the distribution chapter, Choosing Your Path, advocating for the need for independent filmmakers to change their way of thinking in regards to distribution, particularly the stigma associated with self-distribution and a widespread willingness to take bad distribution deals out of fear.

Synopsis

A detailed recounting of the development, production and distribution of three micro-budget feature films sharing the commonality of being produced by independent filmmaking veteran Josh Folan.  Josh walks the reader through each painstaking step of birthing three sub-$250,000 USD films – Ask For Jane, Love Is Dead!, catch 22 – into existence while explaining, scrutinizing and contrasting the experiences in a voice intended to entertain, not lecture.  Informed by the experience of working on sixteen feature films and a bevy of short, episodic and commercial projects over the last decade-plus, during which countless mistakes were made and learning experiences were had by the author, Still Filmmaking, the Hard Way offers readers the invaluable opportunity to learn from those mistakes without having to cripple one’s own micro-budget film in the process.

Feedback

This book is a phenomenal resource to any would-be filmmaker, and I earnestly wish I could have read it before embarking on my own producing journey. I can’t imagine a more useful guide to a young producer – or even a seasoned one.

– Cait Cortelyou, Producer/Actor

List of URL’s from the appendices in the book: https://nyehentertainment.com/sfthwurls/