Writing the Micro Budget Feature

(4 Credits)

In the digital age of inexpensive movie cameras, editing. and distribution technologies, there is ‘NO EXCUSE’ –today- for not making your feature flm. This course offers a critical overview of micro-budget filmmaking by screenings, analyses and discussions of the masterpieces and the commercial breakthroughs made on shoe-string budgets throughout the history of cinema from Bresson, Satyajit Ray, Bergman and Polanski to Rodriguez’s El Mariachi, The Blair Witch Project, Oren Peli’s Paranormal Activity, Dogma, the current American Mumblecore Movement and everything else in between.