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Most recently, he produced and directed the feature length This Killing Business distributed by Filmbox Arthouse in Europe and shown at numerous festivals in the U.S. He has taught ﬁlmmaking at Boston University, Emerson College, and in New York and Los Angeles.

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He has made many ﬁction-based long form series for the educational markets and ﬁlmed numerous projects throughout North America, Europe, and Latin America. He co-wrote and co-edited Secret Courage, a documentary about the Jewish resistance movement during World War 2. He played the lead role in The Golden Boat, directed by Raul Ruiz, shown at Sundance, New York, and Toronto, and distributed by Strand Releasing. He has also produced content for Disneyland, ABC Television, and HBO. He studied ﬁlm at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and worked as a producer for PBS. Federico Muchnik has been making ﬁlms for 30 years. Includes samples from key documents such as script pages, budgets, shooting schedules, and business plans for potential investors. Clearly presented line drawings help readers quickly understand complex ideas like production timelines, story structure, and business models. Includes six sidebar in-depth interviews with industry professionals providing additional perspectives.

Written in clear, succinct, and non-technical prose.

Ideal for all aspiring ﬁlmmakers, The Strategic Producer orients the reader’s mindset towards selfempowerment by sharing essential and timeless techniques producers need to get the job done while also embracing the constantly evolving production landscape and its new parameters. The Strategic Producer: On the Art and Craft of Making Your First Feature combines history, technology, aesthetics, hard data, decision-making, and timetested methods into powerful new producing strategies. The Strategic Producer Today’s technologies and economic models won’t settle for a conventional approach to ﬁlmmaking. Table of contents : Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1: Back Story 1 History 2 Story 3 Working the Material 4 Writing the Script Part 2: Getting to Work 5 Development 6 Money 7 Preproduction 8 Production 9 Post-production 10 The Marketplaces: History, Deal Structures, Distribution, Exhibition, and Film Festivals Appendix: The Business Plan Index Citation preview

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