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A good story, good technique, or even a familiar face in the cast will not guarantee a movie's financial success.  A good strategy can__a strategy that takes into account all the basic elements that will inspire a distributor to release your movie and inspire an audience to see it.
 
TANYA YORK, a highly successful producer and distributor of independent films, offers up all the ins and outs, benefits and terrors of making independent movies.  She shows you how the distribution of one of hte world's most glamorous industries works, and how best to succeed in it.  She takes you through the filmmaking process from story development to movie release and tells you how to avoid the pit falls into which most filmmakers plunge.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Named as one of Hollywood's most influential women by the Hollywood Reporter, Tanya York is one of filmmaking's top producers and distributors of high concept genre-driven independent films throughout the world.  She has produced 30 urban, action and horror feature films, creating a genre-specific "faster-sheaper-better" business model that is emulated industry-wide, and has distributed more than 500 films.  She is founder and CEO of York Entertainment, York International Inc., and Urban Girl productions.