First Time Director: How to Make Your Breakthrough Movie

Directing is a high wire act. For first time directors, the pressures can be magnified a hundred fold, since they usually have only one shot to make a splash in the independent film community. This book teaches first time directors how to make the most of their first opportunity using straight forward, results-orientated instructions. First Time Director also contains a foreword by Robert Zemekis, Oscar Winning director of Forrest Gump , Cast Away , What Lies Beneath , Contact , Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Back to the Future I, II, III .