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Descubre un mundo infinito de historias

Escucha y lee

John Gaspard

Is it your dream to make feature films?

Get advice on how to do that by some of the best in the business! 

It’s like going to film school without ever leaving home.

Valuable Lessons on Making a Successful Feature Film. 

Includes great tips and ideas from: 

Steven Soderbergh • 
(“sex, lies & videotape”)Roger Corman • 
(“Little Shop of Horrors”)Jon Favreau • 
(“Swingers”)Rebecca Miller • 
(“Personal Velocity”)Kenneth Lonergan • 
(“You Can Count on Me”)Henry Jaglom • 
(“Venice/Venice”)Miranda July • 
(“Me and You and Everyone We Know”)Bob Odenkirk • 
(“Melvin Goes to Dinner”)Dan O'Bannon • 
(“Dark Star”)Whit Stillman • 
(“Metropolitan”)Jonathan Lynn • 
(“My Cousin Vinny”)Carol Littleton • 
(“The Big Chill”)Dan Futterman • 
(“Capote”)Joan Micklin Silver • 
(“Hester Street”)Griffin Dunne • 
(“Lisa Picard is Famous”)Stuart Gordon • 
(“Re-Animator”)Kasi Lemmons • 
(“Eve’s Bayou”)George Romero • 
(“Martin”)Tom Noonan • 
(“What Happened Was…”)Daniel Myrick • 
(“The Blair Witch Project”)
And many more!

Topics covered include getting started, scripting, pre-production, production, post-production and distribution.

Albert's Bridge Books

Fast, Cheap Filmmaking Books

Tell Them It's A Dream Sequence: And Other Smart Advice from Top Filmmakers

It’s like taking a Master Class in screenwriting … all in one book!

Discover the pitfalls of writing to fit a budget from screenwriters who have successfully navigated these waters already. Learn from their mistakes and improve your script with their expert advice.

"I wish I'd read this book before I made Re-Animator."—Stuart Gordon, Director, Re-Animator, Castle Freak, From Beyond

The book covers (among other topics):

 • Academy-Award Winner 
Dan Futterman • 
(“Capote”) • on writing real stories
Tom DiCillio • 
(“Living In Oblivion”) • on turning a short into a feature
Kasi Lemmons (“Eve’s Bayou”) • on writing for a different time period
George Romero • 
(“Martin”) • on writing horror on a budget
Rebecca Miller • 
(“Personal Velocity”) • on adapting short stories
Stuart Gordon (“Re-Animator”) • on adaptations
 • Academy-Award Nominee 
Whit Stillman • 
(“Metropolitan”) • on cheap ways to make it look expensive
Miranda July (“Me and You and Everyone We Know”) • on making your writing spontaneous
Alex Cox • 
(“Repo Man”) • on scaling the script to meet a budget
Joan Micklin Silver (“Hester Street”) • on writing history on a budget
Bob Clark • 
(“Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things”) • on mixing humor and horror
And more!
This is the book for anyone who’s serious about writing a screenplay that can get produced!

Jim Cunningham

Chris Clyne

Lauren Gobes

Nathan Taber

Margaret Mikkelsen

Andy Morantz

Ash Steel

Josh Wallace

Nick Preston

Fast, Cheap & Written That Way: Top Screenwriters on Writing for Low-Budget Movies

Two classic filmmaking books in one box set: 

"Fast, Cheap and Under Control: Lessons Learned from the Greatest Low-Budget Movies of All Time" Learn the tricks and pitfalls of low-budget filmmaking from 33 successful independent films and the filmmakers who created them. Includes never before published interviews with low-budget mavericks such as Steven Soderbergh, Roger Corman, Jon Favreau, Henry Jaglom, and many more. 

"Fast, Cheap and Written That Way: Top Screenwriters on Writing for Low-Budget Movies" Hollywood's top screenwriters look back at their early low-budget efforts and provide valuable tips, tricks, and advice on how to create a solid screenplay for a low-budget movie. Includes in-depth interviews with: Tom DiCillo (Living in Oblivion), Whit Stillman (Metropolitan), Richard Glatzer (Grief), Henry Jaglom (Venice/Venice), Dan Futterman (Capote), John McNaughton (Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer), Coleman Hough (Bubble), Rebecca Miller (Personal Velocity), Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator), Joan Micklin Silver (Hester Street), Ali Selim (Sweet Land), Stephen Belber (Tape), Eric Bogosian (subUrbia), George Romero (Martin), Bob Clark (Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things), Roger Nygard (Suckers), Alex Cox (Repo Man), Amy Holden Jones (Love Letters), Kenneth Lonergan (You Can Count On Me), Dylan Kidd (Roger Dodger), LM Kit Carson (Paris, Texas), Kasi Lemmons (Eve's Bayou), and Miranda July (Me and You and Everyone We Know). 

"We never put out an actual textbook for the Corman School of Filmmaking, but if we did, it would be Fast, Cheap and Under Control." — Roger Corman, Producer, New Horizons 

"This terrific little book explains how to make every penny count on the often arduous journey from script to screen." — John Carpenter, Director, Halloween, Starman, Escape from New York

Andy Moratnz

Margaret Mikkelson

Box Set: Fast, Cheap and Under Control ... and ... Fast, Cheap and Written That Way: Two Classic Filmmaking Books Together In One Box Set.