Real indies from around the globe share how they did it. Plus gear reviews, practical tips and advice from the experts. Now available at most Barnes & Nobles, Books-A-Million, Hastings Chapters, and more, plus virtually every studio in the LA area.

----------------Issue Highlights---------------

• Cover Story:
  Renfield, Getting great Fx on a budget.
  by Melissa L. Nichols
• MUSIC FOR INDIES:
  Scoring a Hit for your project
  Two composers talk about how to do it
  Interview with Indie Slate
  
• Music Tips for Indiemakers
  Resources and Key Legal terms
  
• Music Licensing 101 
  A Legal Guide for Creators
  by Darren M. Richard, Exq.
  
• Music Licensing Strategies -- Excerpt from The Indie Guidebook to Music Supervision for Films 
  by Sharal Churchill

FINAL FRAME -- Hold Fast, Indies!
Bright Horizons Ahead  by Lorne Gross

REEL LIFE Adventures:
True Tales of Making, Marketing & Distributing Independent Movies & TV:

• Recreator
• Trail of Crumbs
• Art Car: The Movie
• What if Cannabis Cured Cancer
  PLUS three more, only on the web (below)

Plus The Production Slate Listings, 160 indie projects, including all 59 In Development listing in 6 free pages on this website, with contact info, and many with cast & crew calls ! [Subscribe to the Production Slate Extra, and get listings every month, with clickable emails!]

Bonus web content:

• Online Exclusives:
• More "REEL LIFE" stories, only on the web!
  Denizen, by J. A. Steele
  Manhater, by Philip R. Calderone
  Wake the Witch by Dorothy Booraem
  The Invisible Ones: Homeless Combat Veterans
  by Patty Mooney
• More Mark & Jay Duplass brothers pics!
• HD DSLRs: More Possibilities for Indies
  by Robert Render Harrison
• Horror Screenwriting:  The Nature of Fear
  Book Review by Rob McKinnon
• Interview with Nicholas Jasenovic, director of Sundance award-winning Paper Heart, a 'hybrid' documentary
  By David Medenhall
• Interview with Producer Jordan Yale Levine

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