Filmmaking for Teens: Pulling Off Your Shorts

Dreaming of the silver screen during Algebra? Composing your Academy Award acceptance speech instead of your English essay? Now you have a guidebook that can help those dreams become a reality.

This funny and irreverent how-to guide takes young filmmakers from the moment of inspiration to a finished short film and beyond. Young auteurs-in-training learn everything they need to do to become the writer/producer/director of their first short film. With tips and techniques on brainstorming, screenwriting, scheduling, shooting, editing, and marketing, this accessible, hip, and complete guide will nurture and inspire a new generation of filmmakers.