 DVD Box Set | |
| Author | Lloyd Kaufman Adam Jahnke Trent Haaga |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | Cinema |
| Publisher | St. Martin's Press |
Publication date | 2003 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | print Paperback |
| Pages | 352 |
| ISBN | 0-312-28864-6 |
| OCLC | 50072358 |
| 791.43/023 21 | |
| LC Class | PN1995.9.P7 K385 2003 |
| Preceded by | All I Need to Know About Filmmaking I Learned from The Toxic Avenger |
Make Your Own Damn Movie! is both a book and a DVD set about Troma Entertainment and independent film in general.
Make Your Own Damn Movie!: Secrets of a Renegade Director is written by Lloyd Kaufman (with Adam Jahnke and Trent Haaga) published by St. Martin's, in 2003. Kaufman is the co-founder of B-movie company Troma Entertainment and the director of such films as The Toxic Avenger , Class of Nuke 'Em High , and Terror Firmer .
Kaufman and Haaga had previously collaborated on the 1999 film Terror Firmer and the 2001 film Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV .
The A.V. Club called the book
"...mildly hilarious, not to mention full of actual useful advice for the would-be indie filmmaker struggling with a lack of experience and a nonexistent budget." [1]
Publishers Weekly stated,
"It is to the tremendous credit of Kaufman's profane, self-deprecating, caustic but charismatic sense of humor that the book's opening, closing and everything else in between manages to make the low-budget filmmaking process seem like the most glorious and noble of life pursuits." [2]
The foreword to the book was written by South Park co-creator Trey Parker. The introduction was penned by frequent Kaufman collaborator James Gunn. Gunn had previously co-written All I Need to Know About Filmmaking I Learned from The Toxic Avenger with Kaufman.
In 2005, Kaufman and Troma decided to expand the book into a 5 DVD set. The set, with more than 18 hours of material, [3] includes advice and interviews with Trey Parker and Matt Stone, George A. Romero, Stan Lee, John G. Avildsen, Eli Roth, James Gunn. [3]
The set also includes Kaufman's first major film The Battle of Love's Return . [4] in a deconstructed version. This was the only DVD version of the film until 2009, when the film was released as an Easter Egg on The Sexy Box, a DVD boxset of Squeeze Play! , Waitress! , Stuck on You! and The First Turn-On! . [5]
Troma also released a DVD series under the Make Your Own Damn Movie title that showcases amateur films by young filmmakers. However, the only film released to date is Pot Zombies. [6]