Full name: Rebel without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player

Author: Robert Rodriguez Year: 1995 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Biographies Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780452271876 0452271878

In Rebel Without a Crew, famed independent screenwriter and director Robert Rodriguez (Sin City, Sin City 2, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Spy Kids) discloses all the unique strategies and original techniques he used to make his remarkable debut film, El Mariachi, on a shoestring budget. This is both one man's remarkable story and an essential guide for anyone who has a celluloid story to tell and the dreams and determination to see it through.  Part production diary, part how-to manual, Rodriguez unveils how he was able to make his influential first film on only a $7,000 budget.  Also included is the appendix, 'The Ten Minute Film Course," a tell-all on how to save thousands of dollars on film school and teach yourself the ropes of film production, directing, and screenwriting. Similar books: A Killer Life by Christine Vachon Make Your Own Damn Movie! by Lloyd Kaufman Making Movies by Sidney Lumet All I Need to Know about Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger by Lloyd Kaufman On Film-making by Alexander Mackendrick On Directing Film by David Mamet Directing by Michael Rabiger Shooting to Kill by Christine Vachon In the Blink of an Eye by Walter Murch Spike, Mike, Slackers, & Dykes by John Pierson Shock Value by John Waters Monster by John Gregory Dunne The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex by Mark Kermode There's More to Life Than This by Theresa Caputo The Duck Commander Family by Willie Robertson To Selena, with Love by Chris Perez It's Only a Movie by Mark Kermode The Life and Legend of Chris Kyle by Michael J. Mooney The Women of Duck Commander by Kay Robertson A Lion's Tale by Chris Jericho