Make Your Own Damn Movie! Secrets of a Renegade Director

Make Your Own Damn Movie! Secrets of a Renegade Director
by Lloyd Kaufman, with Adam Jahnke and Trent Haaga
(published by St. Martin’s Press)

Sick of all the cookie-cutter plots in Hollywood films? 

Do you walk out of a movie theater and say, I can do better than that, but have no idea how?

Lloyd Kaufman, president of Troma Entertainment and creator of the The Toxic Avenger, says, Make Your Own Damn Movie!

Make Your Own Damn Movie! packs three decades of cinematic know-how into one fantastic book that shows how to take your truly independent vision form conception to completion! Make Your Own Damn Movie! is a hilarious yet informative crash course in filmmaking, written for anyone who has ever wanted to make movies but didnt know how! Using real-life examples from Kaufmans own thirty years in the business, Make Your Own Damn Movie! illustrates step by step:

  • Financing! (getting the money)
  • Scriptwriting!
  • Budgeting!
  • Getting cast and crew for no money!
  • Pre-production!
  • Production!
  • Post-production! (Finishing the movie… see, you are learning already!)
  • Marketing your own damn movie!

Using the world-famous Troma System of filmmaking and marketing-which has brought you films like , Trey Parker’s Cannibal! The Musical, and Kevin Costner in Sizzle Beach USA, you will be making your own damn movie in no time.

In typical Troma fashion, Make Your Own Damn Movie! is both informative and entertaining. So whether you want to learn how to make movies or read about how Lloyd Kaufman convinces actors and actresses to get naked for little or no money, Make Your Own Damn Movie! is the book for you!

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  1. 1 On June 22nd, 2007, Jennifer said:

    Hi,Lloyd…How’s your morning?Hope all is well to do for you-do you have a myspace address,or email that I can write to?Really interested in reading your book,”How To Make Your Own Damn Movie”…my bf has a copy of the book and has asked me to write a screenplay,but I can’t afford the book,and he lives far away,so I was wondering if there were any free versions floating around on the net…Please let me know asap….Thank you so much for your time,and consideration for the efforts I am attempting to make….I really do appreciate any advice you may be able to give to me….

  2. 2 On February 17th, 2008, Tattooed Steve said:

    Lloyd,

    I love this book and I can’t thank you enough for taking the time to write it.

    There are so many people that email and ask me “How do I get started in making a movie?” So I tell them, “Buy a copy of Make your own damn movie! It has any and all of the information you will ever need. Then once your done with that and still want to follow through, buy the DVD set then take your chances.
    It’s amazing the reactions and looks that I get half the time, but I tell them that you give a no bullshit “This is how the process and business works” step by step explanation. But if they want to buy some pipe dream piece of shit that tells you “(A) Buy a HD camera. (B) Point it at your asshole friends. (C) Make a Gazillion dollars from your movie and get your Oscar.” go right ahead, but don’t cry to me that you went through all of your money and you can’t get it sold.
    I can’t express enough how important this book can be to a first time filmmaker!

    And I also wanted to thank you for making it possible for my Mother, Wife and Myself to see me in a horror movie on the big screen. That had to be one of the coolest times of my life.

    Keep the gore pumping out of Tromaville!
    Tattooed Steve

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