''The Guerilla Filmmakers Handbook'' is a bestselling
textbook
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on
low-budget
A low-budget film or low-budget movie is a motion picture shot with little to no funding from a major film studio or private investor. Many independent films are made on low budgets, but films made on the mainstream circuit with inexperienced or ...
and
independent film production written by
Chris Jones and Genevieve Jolliffe. Currently in its third edition, it consists primarily of interviews with filmmakers and case studies in
filmmaking
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. The Handbook has become widely respected in the UK as a comprehensive filmmaking guide.
Jones and Jolliffe have also written three further books on film making. Chris Jones wrote The Guerilla Film Makers Movie Blueprint. Jones and Jolliffe also co-authored the US Guerilla Film Makers Handbook (aka Hollywood Handbook in the UK). Genevieve Jolliffe and Andrew Zinnes also wrote The Documentary Film Makers Handbook. Most recently the trio published the Guerilla Film Makers Pocketbook.
Jones and Jolliffe, the authors have made three low-budget movies: ''The Runner'' (1992), ''
White Angel
''White Angel'' ( sr, Бели анђео / ''Beli anđeo'') is a detail of one of the best known frescoes in Serbian culture in the Mileševa monastery, ''Mironosice na Hristovom grobu'' (the Myrrhbearers at Christ's tomb), dated c. 1235 in ...
'' (1993) and ''Urban Ghost Story'' (1998). They also run courses in filmmaking through their production company, Living Spirit Pictures. Jolliffe now resides in Los Angeles, Jones now in Ealing, London, where their offices are based (
Ealing Studios
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). Chris Jones recently directed an Oscars shortlisted short film, ''
Gone Fishing'', which won awards at over 40 international film festivals.
Film makers who cite the Guerilla Film Makers Handbook and its follow up books as influential to them include Simon Cox, the Writer/Director of ''Kaleidoscope Man'' and
Allin Kempthorne
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, the Writer/Director of ''
The Vampires of Bloody Island
''The Vampires of Bloody Island'' is a 2009 British comedy horror film directed by Allin Kempthorne and starring Pamela Kempthorne. The film also include stars Oliver Gray, John Snelling, and Leon Hamilton. The film had a theatrical release in the ...
''
See also
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Independent film
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Guerrilla filmmaking
Guerrilla filmmaking refers to a form of independent filmmaking characterized by ultra-low micro budgets, skeleton crews, and limited props using whatever resources, locations and equipment is available. Often scenes are shot quickly in real loc ...
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Low-budget film
A low-budget film or low-budget movie is a motion picture shot with little to no funding from a major film studio or private investor. Many independent films are made on low budgets, but films made on the mainstream circuit with inexperienced or ...
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Microfilmmaking
References
External links
Living Spirit Pictures website
2006 non-fiction books
Books about film
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