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For years award-winning independent filmmaker Rick Schmidt has been teaching aspiring writers, directors and producers how to make no-budget' films, both in workshops and in his classic guide, Feature Filmmaking at Used-Car Prices. Now Schmidt shows how it is easier and cheaper... Read Full Overview

For about $6,000 anyone with the right know-how--and this book--can write, produce, direct, film, edit, and promote a feature film. Step-by-step instructions, summary checklists, and lots of tips on how to save money support the filmmaker spiritually, aesthetically, and technically... Read Full Overview

Every day, in varied fields such as music, theatre, feature films and Youtube videos, the word IMPROV is being heard as the 'NEXT BIG THING.' But up until now, though, there has been NO BOOK that aptly describes the actual day-to-day IMPROV FILMMAKING process, where a writer/director... Read Full Overview

No-budget feature filmmaker Rick Schmidt has written a fascinating memoir, TWELVE DEAD FROGS AND OTHER STORIES, which, he hopes, will "fill in the blanks" on how he learned the tools of the trade and shared them in his seminal how-to, Feature Filmmaking at Used-Car Prices (Viking... Read Full Overview

No-budget feature filmmaker Rick Schmidt has written a fascinating memoir, TWELVE DEAD FROGS AND OTHER STORIES, which, he hopes, will "fill in the blanks" on how he learned the tools of the trade and shared them in his seminal how-to, Feature Filmmaking at Used-Car Prices (Viking... Read Full Overview

No-budget feature filmmaker Rick Schmidt has written a fascinating memoir, TWELVE DEAD FROGS AND OTHER STORIES, which, he hopes, will "fill in the blanks" on how he learned the tools of the trade and shared them in his seminal how-to, Feature Filmmaking at Used-Car Prices (Viking... Read Full Overview

No-budget feature filmmaker Rick Schmidt has written a fascinating memoir, TWELVE DEAD FROGS AND OTHER STORIES, which, he hopes, will "fill in the blanks" on how he learned the tools of the trade and shared them in his seminal how-to, Feature Filmmaking at Used-Car Prices (Viking... Read Full Overview

COLD, THE 1918-19 SIBERIAN ESCAPE OF CAPTAIN EWALD LOEFFLER, a novel by Rick Schmidt, follows a young German soldier, Ewald Loeffler, as he struggles to traverse 5000 km of frozen and barren land across Siberia, to finally reach Germany and his family home. After he'd been in... Read Full Overview

BLACKMALE, a companion piece to Schmidt's first two novels - BLACK PRESIDENT and KENNEDY'S TWINS - offers the final installment of this trilogy about JFK's secret twin black sons who occupy the White House, 2012-2020. In the Little Administration, the world heads toward the brink... Read Full Overview

No-budget feature filmmaker Rick Schmidt has written a fascinating memoir, TWELVE DEAD FROGS AND OTHER STORIES, which, he hopes, will "fill in the blanks" on how he learned the tools of the trade and shared them in his seminal how-to, Feature Filmmaking at Used-Car Prices (Viking... Read Full Overview