Making Your Film for Less Outside the U. S.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Where Palmettos Grow and Small Budgets Stretch Far

Mark DeWayne Helps Young Filmmakers Reap the Benefits of Overseas Film Production

Whether Thailand's palmetto beaches or Mexico's snow-covered mountains, the controversial rush to film in exotic locations continues. For up-and-coming producers and low-budget filmmakers, filming in foreign countries is often the only affordable way to realize their projects. In Making Your Film for Less Outside the U.S ., international production consultant and producer Mark DeWayne prepares directors and producers for filmmaking in countries where small budgets can still go a long way.

Making Your Film for Less Outside The U.S . is a long overdue blueprint to the benefits of producing and distributing films in foreign locations. Through engaging interviews with producers, location managers, completion bonders, film commission representatives and other industry members, Mark DeWayne creates comprehensive profiles for more than twelve countries that filmmakers rate as more affordable or more exotic than U.S. film locations. Using realistic cost charts and budget plans, he tells filmmakers where producing abroad can save them costs, what steps are better done in the United States, and what extra costs to expect when working cross-culturally. A detailed step-by-step guide shows overseas-bound filmmakers how to master the challenges of the production process as they move from researching the location, scheduling, budgeting and shooting to marketing the finished film to local and foreign distributors.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mark Dewayne is an international production consultant who specializes in helping producers and writers advance their projects. He is the founder of Reserved Productions, a Thailand-based consulting and scouting company, and has founded and promoted countless networking events in the United States. He has written, produced, and directed three documentaries and the live-action short The Centurion, and is a semifinalist in the Nicholl Fellowships Competition for his feature screenplay, Spirit Bound. He has served as stunt coordinator for commercials, features, and live performances and is a working member of the Screen Actors Guild. The author lives in Thailand.

SYNOPSIS

At last, here is a definitive step-by-step guide that explains everything needed to successfully produce and distribute films overseas. Following the advice found here, filmmakers will learn to make films in foreign countries that cost less money and allow the artists greater creative control. Chapters include:

A critical assessment of the most popular havens of foreign film production and of little known production paradises such as Lithuania Exclusive interviews with industry veterans such as Fred Weintraub and Michael Sellers A complete comparison of production costs between a U.S. production vs. a foreign production Insights on cultural idiosyncracies and how they affect interaction with foreign film commissions, customs officials, and local film teams New digital technology and how it aids foreign production "Working in reverse" and other unusual techniques for writing overseas film scripts

Making Your Film For Less Outside The U.S. is a fair, eye-opening view of the incentives and deterrents of making movies abroad, and an invaluable resource for every director, producer, screenwriter and actor trying to grow within the constraints of medium- or low-budget productions.

FROM THE CRITICS

Booknews

Non-union labor, exchange rate windfalls, and subsidies from foreign governments are some of the reason producers are relocating outside the US. Documentary producer and director DeWayne, a working member of the Screen Actors Guild for over 25 years, says he does not advocate the practice, but offers a guide to the advantages and pitfalls, in general and in several popular countries. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

With his emphasis on first-hand accounts from the front-lines of international production and co-financing, Mark DeWayne's highly accessible primer serves as a much-needed introduction to the complexities of shooting feature films abroad -and issues a salutory warning to all those would-be US filmmakers who venture overseas without adequate preparation.  — Colin Brown, Editor-in-Chief, Screen International