Talking Pictures: Interviews With Contemporary British Film-Makers

by Graham Jones, Lucy Johnson (Editor)

Talking Pictures is a vibrant collection of interviews with the cream of new talent emerging in the British film industry today. It's a vivid snapshot and informal handbook of the trials and tribulations--and joys--of independent from the scriptwriting and financing to shooting, editing, marketing, and distribution.
Interviewees include Eric Fellner, executive producer of Four Weddings and a Funeral ; Andrew Macdonald, producer of Trainspotting and The Beach ; Gary Sinyor, co-director of Leon the Pig Farmer ; Brianne Perkins of the Children's Film Unit ; Ray Brady, director of the highly controversial Boy Meets Girl ; and A. Hans Scheirl, director, producer, and actor of seven parts in the 'low to no budget' Dandy Dust .

132 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

Reviews

[Lucy Johnson · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a rookie's guide to independent film-making in the UK and a helpful snap shot of the people who were active on that scene in the mid nineties.