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Guerrilla filmmaking, the Glossary

Guerrilla filmmaking refers to a form of independent filmmaking characterized by ultra-low micro budgets, skeleton crews, and limited props using whatever resources, locations and equipment is available.^[1]

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All I Need to Know About Filmmaking I Learned from The Toxic Avenger

All I Need to Know about Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger is the biography of Lloyd Kaufman, co-written by Kaufman himself and James Gunn.

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B movie

A B movie (American English), or B film (British English), is a type of low-budget commercial motion picture. Guerrilla filmmaking and b movie are film and video terminology and film genres.

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Baadasssss!

Baadasssss! is a 2003 American biographical drama film, written, produced, directed by, and starring Mario Van Peebles.

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Biographical film

A biographical film or biopic is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or group of people. Guerrilla filmmaking and biographical film are film genres.

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Bolex

Bolex International S. A. is a Swiss manufacturer of motion picture cameras based in Yverdon located in Canton of Vaud, the most notable products of which are in the 16 mm and Super 16 mm formats.

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Cinema of Greece

The cinema of Greece has a long and rich history.

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Clark: A Gonzomentary

Clark: A Gonzomentary is an American 2013 gonzo journalism-styled mockumentary written, directed and produced by Daniel D.W.

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Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., commonly known as Columbia Pictures or simply Columbia, is an American film production and distribution company that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures, which is one of the Big Five studios and a subsidiary of the multinational conglomerate Sony Group Corporation.

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Cult film

A cult film or cult movie, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a cult following. Guerrilla filmmaking and cult film are film and video terminology and film genres.

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Darren Aronofsky

Darren Aronofsky (born February 12, 1969) is an American filmmaker.

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Disneyland

Disneyland is a theme park at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.

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Ed Wood

Edward Davis Wood Jr. (October 10, 1924 – December 10, 1978) was an American filmmaker, actor, and pulp novelist.

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Ed Wood (film)

Ed Wood is a 1994 American biographical comedy-drama film directed and produced by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp as Ed Wood, the eponymous cult filmmaker.

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El Mariachi

El Mariachi is a 1992 Spanish language American independent neo-Western action film and the first part of the saga that came to be known as Robert Rodriguez's Mexico Trilogy.

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Escape from Tomorrow

Escape from Tomorrow is a 2013 American independent horror film written and directed by Randy Moore in his directorial debut.

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Film distribution

Film distribution, also called film exhibition or film distribution and exhibition, is the process of making a movie available for viewing to an audience.

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Film Threat

Film Threat is an American online film review publication, and earlier, a national magazine that focused primarily on independent film, although it also reviewed videos and DVDs of mainstream films, as well as Hollywood movies in theaters.

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Filming location

A filming location is a place where some or all of a film or television series is produced, in addition to or instead of using sets constructed on a movie studio backlot or soundstage.

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Filming permit

Filming permits are permits issued by governments to allow the filming of motion pictures.

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Filmmaker (magazine)

Filmmaker is a quarterly publication magazine covering issues relating to independent film.

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Filmmaking

Filmmaking or film production is the process by which a motion picture is produced. Guerrilla filmmaking and Filmmaking are film production.

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Gonzo journalism

Gonzo journalism is a style of journalism that is written without claims of objectivity, often including the reporter as part of the story using a first-person narrative.

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Gregg Araki

Gregg Araki (born December 17, 1959) is an American filmmaker.

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Guerrilla marketing

Guerrilla marketing is an advertisement strategy in which a company uses surprise and/or unconventional interactions in order to promote a product or service.

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Guerrilla warfare

Guerrilla warfare is a form of unconventional warfare in which small groups of irregular military, such as rebels, partisans, paramilitary personnel or armed civilians including recruited children, use ambushes, sabotage, terrorism, raids, petty warfare or hit-and-run tactics in a rebellion, in a violent conflict, in a war or in a civil war to fight against regular military, police or rival insurgent forces.

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Independent film

An independent film, independent movie, indie film, or indie movie is a feature film or short film that is produced outside the major film studio system in addition to being produced and distributed by independent entertainment companies (or, in some cases, distributed by major companies). Guerrilla filmmaking and independent film are film and video terminology, film genres and independent films.

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IndieWire

IndieWire is a film industry and film criticism website that was established in 1996. Guerrilla filmmaking and IndieWire are independent films.

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Janet Maslin

Janet R. Maslin (born August 12, 1949) is an American journalist, best known as a film and literary critic for The New York Times.

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List of Canon camcorders

This is a list of camcorders manufactured under the Canon brand.

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Lloyd Kaufman

Stanley Lloyd Kaufman Jr., known professionally as Lloyd Kaufman (born December 30, 1945) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and actor.

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Make Your Own Damn Movie!

Make Your Own Damn Movie! is both a book and a DVD set about Troma Entertainment and independent film in general.

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Melvin Van Peebles

Melvin Van Peebles (born Melvin Peebles; August 21, 1932 – September 21, 2021) was an American actor, filmmaker, writer, and composer.

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Michael Cieply

Michael Cieply (born 1951) is an entertainment industry writer, first for The Wall Street Journal and then for ''Talk'' magazine and as a media correspondent for The New York Times.

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Michael Herz (producer)

Michael Herz (born May 9, 1949) is an American film producer, director and screenwriter.

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New queer cinema

"New queer cinema" is a term first coined by the academic B. Ruby Rich in Sight & Sound magazine in 1992 to define and describe a movement in queer-themed independent filmmaking in the early 1990s. Guerrilla filmmaking and New queer cinema are film genres.

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New York University Press

New York University Press (or NYU Press) is a university press that is part of New York University.

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Oren Peli

Oren Peli (אורן פלאי / אורן פלי; born January 21, 1970) is an Israeli film director, producer and screenwriter, known for directing the 2007 film Paranormal Activity.

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Panasonic AG-DVX100

The Panasonic AG-DVX100 was released in October 2002.

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Paranormal Activity

Paranormal Activity is a 2007 American supernatural horror film produced, written, directed, photographed, and edited by Oren Peli.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.

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Pi (film)

Pi (stylized as) is a 1998 American conceptual psychological thriller film written and directed by Darren Aronofsky (in his feature directorial debut).

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Planning the Low-Budget Film

Planning the Low-Budget Film is a book by Robert Latham Brown describing the processes involved in scheduling and budgeting motion pictures. Guerrilla filmmaking and Planning the Low-Budget Film are film production.

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PopMatters

PopMatters is an international online magazine of cultural criticism that covers aspects of popular culture.

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Rebel Without a Crew

Rebel Without a Crew (subtitle: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player) is a 1995 non-fiction book by Robert Rodriguez.

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Robert Rodriguez

Robert Anthony Rodriguez (born June 20, 1968) is an American filmmaker, composer, and visual effects supervisor.

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, essayist, screenwriter, and author.

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She's Gotta Have It

She's Gotta Have It is a 1986 American black-and-white comedy drama film written, produced, edited and directed by Spike Lee.

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Skeleton crew

A skeleton crew is the minimum number of personnel needed to operate and maintain an itemsuch as a business, organization, or shipat its most simple operating requirements.

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Spike Lee

Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20, 1957) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and author.

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Steadicam

Steadicam is a brand of camera stabilizer mounts for motion picture cameras invented by Garrett Brown and introduced in 1975 by Cinema Products Corporation.

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Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival (formerly Utah/US Film Festival, then US Film and Video Festival) is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute.

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Super Demetrios

Super Demetrios (Σούπερ Δημήτριος) is a 2011 Greek guerrilla ultra-low-budget superhero comedy film starring and written by the cinematic comedy group OtiNaNai Productions and directed by Georgios Papaioannou.

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Superhero film

A superhero film is a film that focuses on superheroes and their actions. Guerrilla filmmaking and superhero film are film genres.

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Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song is a 1971 American independent blaxploitation action thriller film written, co-produced, scored, edited, directed by, and starring Melvin Van Peebles.

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The Guerilla Filmmakers Handbook

The Guerilla Filmmakers Handbook is a bestselling textbook on low-budget and independent film production written by Chris Jones and Genevieve Jolliffe.

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The Long Weekend (O' Despair)

The Long Weekend (O' Despair) (stylized onscreen in lowercase) is a 1989 American low-budget drama film written, produced, edited and directed by Gregg Araki, and starring Brett Vail.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Numbers (website)

The Numbers is a film industry data website that tracks box office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way.

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Thessaloniki International Film Festival

The Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF) is a film festival held every November in Thessaloniki, Greece.

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Three Bewildered People in the Night

Three Bewildered People in the Night is a 1987 American drama film directed by Gregg Araki and starring Darcy Marta, John Lacques, and Mark Howell.

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Troma Entertainment

Troma Entertainment is an American independent film production and distribution company founded by Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz in 1974.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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VentureBeat

VentureBeat is an American technology website headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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Video on demand

Video on demand (VOD) is a media distribution system that allows users to access videos, television shows and films digitally on request.

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Walt Disney World

The Walt Disney World Resort (also known as Walt Disney World or Disney World) is an entertainment resort complex located about southwest of Orlando, Florida, United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_filmmaking

Also known as Guerilla filmmaking, Guerrilla film.

, Sundance Film Festival, Super Demetrios, Superhero film, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, The Guerilla Filmmakers Handbook, The Long Weekend (O' Despair), The New York Times, The Numbers (website), Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Three Bewildered People in the Night, Troma Entertainment, United States, VentureBeat, Video on demand, Walt Disney World.

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