In todays digital age, thousands and thousands of independent filmmakers are challenging Hollywoods elite, best-of-the-best film producers. A Gaffers Perspective on Independent Filmmaking examines why so many first-time independent film productions are doomed to failure before the first day of principal photography ever begins. Learning what dooms a production is only half of the process; teaching successful practices and techniques, while revealing many of the tricks of the trade used by the big productions, is the other half. With examples of actual productions gone awry, combined with...