HOW TO DO AN INDEPENDENT MOVIE by CARLOS ATANES

"LOS TRABAJOS DEL DIRECTOR"
This filmmaking handbook teaches what film schools don't teah
Essay, 156 pgs.

Los Trabajos del Director (The Director's Works) is a guided visit to the (very) independent cinema's bowels, a critical review of direction's hackneyed subjects (creative process, work with actors or planning of sequences, among others), a statement in the digital revolution age and a call to all those who want to plunge in the exciting adventure of directing movies. Carlos Atanes reveals in this book the secrets that have allowed him to direct and to produce uninterrupted indy movies in almost all the known formats throughout twenty years.

This book (centred principally on the feature film, though everything what it says can be applied equally to the shortfilm making) suddenly solves, from the unusual filmmaker personal optics, many of the doubts that assault the new filmmaker (or not so new) when he faces conditions of very low budget, planning of sequences,work with cast and crew, sex sequences and prejudices too much extended on the story-board, eroticism, racords and digital cinema, among many other things.


Anika Entre Libros interviews Carlos Atanes about Los Trabajos del Director (Spanish)