Includes index.
Overview: the route to success
Making the most of film school
First steps in the real world
Vital survival knowledge
Working for others
Becoming an independent filmmaker
Writing your winning proposal
More on proposals : treatments and problems
Budgeting for survival and profit
Financing your film
Production contracts and other agreements
Making money
Notes from the front.
Succeeding as a documentary filmmaker : a guide to the professional world by Alan Rosenthal. ISBN 9780809330331. Published by Southern Illinois University Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.