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Variety called John Pierson the "guru of independent film." Why? Perhaps because he wrote Spike Lee a $10,000 check to finish She's Gotta Have It; helped make "slacker" a household word; sold the documentary Roger & Me for $3 million; made Clerks famous; and has seen over 1,000 debut features, and (unlike most independent film companies) managed not to lose his shirt while backing those films he liked most.
In short, he's been at the epicenter of the tumultuous last decade that changed independent film forever, and launched a new generation of hilarious, ambitious, talented, and sometimes wacked filmmakers.
Here, for the first time, he tells it like it is - the unvarnished truth about film financing; the importance of timing and lighting; creating a sensation on the film festival circuit; the dark side of overnight success; the anatomy of the deals that get films to a theater somewhere near you; and what definitely not to do if you want to make a film (illustrated with dozens of embarrassing examples - like having Elvis come back as a golfing vampire who's shooting a feature).
As punctuation throughout the book, Pierson and Clerks creator Kevin Smith dish about everything from Batman, sex, and Quentin Tarantino to American Psycho, Matty Rich, and of course, Rob "Vanilla" Weiss, who "typifies everything you don't want to be as a first-time filmmaker." Spike, Mike, Slackers & Dykes is a first of its kind: an inside look at the art, the heart, and the enterprise of the spiteful, fractious, and finally, entertaining place that is the world of independent film.
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Biography, Motion pictures, Independent filmmakers, Motion picture producers and directors, Low budget motion pictures, Production and direction, Films à petit budget, Cinéma, Réalisateurs de cinéma, Producteurs de cinéma, Production et réalisation, Low budget films, History, Motion Picture Directing And Producing, Pop Arts / Pop Culture, United States, Cinema/Film: Book, Film - Direction & Production, Film - History & Criticism, Motion pictures, production and directionPlaces
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"JOHN PIERSON: In Clerks, you have an end credit thanking Spike Lee, Jim Jarmusch, Rick Linklater, and Hal Hartley for "leading the way.""
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