Filmmakers' yearbook 2008 - Briony Hanson

Foreword by Sir Richard Eyre

"A reservoir of information" Anthony Minghella
"The essential new 'black book' to the film industry"shootingpeople.org

Compiled by industry experts, this essential guide offers well researched, in-depth contact information and practical advice from leading filmmakers to help you get your film made and successfully released. This greatly expanded edition includes new articles:'Writing Character', 'Pitching a Project','Developing DocumentaryProjects', 'Writing Narrative for Games', 'Analysing Your Box OfficePotential', 'Drama and Documentary Commissioning for UK Television'. More contacts for alternative distribution are listed in this edition as well as the TV commissioners for factual tv and drama.

Contributors include: SandraHebron (Director, London Film Festival), Robert Jones (Producer, 'TheUsual Suspects', Former Head of the Premier Fund for the Film Council),Charles McDonald (M&R Publicity), Lucy Scher (Script Factory), MarkBatey (Chairman of the Film Distributors Association) and Larry Sider(National Film & TV School), Chris Collins (Producer, My Summer ofLove), Paul Fraser (Director Arctic Monkeys video) Eileen Queen (Headof Drama IWC), Claire Parker, (Head of Development, Kudos Film and TV)Stephen Kijak (documentary filmmaker), Cate Latchford (Films Producer,Electronic Arts Games).