Sell Your Own &@%^ Movie!

This review is from: Sell Your Own Damn Movie! (Paperback)

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I started reading Sell Your Own Damn Movie by Lloyd Kaufman and had a difficult time getting through it. Even if it's intended to be tongue in cheek, the adolescent humor, f-bombs and obsessive sexual references were tiresome and got in the way of the supposed point of the book:how to sell your independent film.

As I read, the book seemed largely to be a mind-numbing, shameless plug for Lloyd Kaufman's company, Troma Entertainment, which has been around 40 years. As far as information about how to sell your movie, the interviews with indie film producers like Nina Paley (Sita Sings the Blues) Mynette Louie, producer and Tze Chun writer/director (Children of Invention) and others were worth reading.

The book isn't without its good points, for me there weren't enough of them to justify the cost of the book. While it is noteworthy that Kaufman and his company have been around longer than most Hollywood marriages, my copy of Sell Your Own Damn Movie will not be. It literally came unbound at page 175 while I read it. If you are looking to sell your own movie, you may be better off to look elsewhere for how best to accomplish it.
2 out of  5 stars.

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