A how-to manual for aspiring filmmakers in the form of a broadly comic
mockumentary, inspired by writer/director Bret Stern's book
How to Shoot a
Feature Film for Under $10,000 (and Not Go to Jail). Stern's gimmicky
conceit is to follow aspiring auteur John (N.Y.-based comic John Viener) as he
stumbles through the filmmaking process, guided only by a determination to
take a film to the Sundance festival in Park City, Utah. That John has no idea
how to make a movie — or even what movie he wants to make — hardly
matters. After all, who hasn't read about successful filmmakers ("successful"
meaning they finished a film and go...
Released:
2001
Rated:
NR
Length:
73 mins