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 Borders, Barnes & Nobles, Books-A-Million, Hastings Chapters, and more in five countries, and virtually every studio in the LA area.

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

• Cover Story: 3D, Is it for Indies?.
  by Darin Scott
• Film Education:
  Knowing what to know
  by E. Collins
  
• Real World vs Film School
  An Industry Pro Speaks
  by Jeffrey Cooper
• Make Your $$ Count 
  Avoid common payroll mistakes and keep the
  IRS happy!
  by Heidi McLean
  
• Filmmaker's Journal -- Series from filmmaker
  Dan Millican documenting the twists, turns and unmarked shortcuts on the road to distribution.

FINAL FRAME -- Indie Outlets series:
Well Go USA, Inc  by Merle Bertrand.

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

• Black
• Denizen
• Endings
• Homewrecker
  PLUS three more, only on the web (below)

Plus The Production Slate Listings, 150 indie projects, including all 66 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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