Style emerges from substance, not the other way round.
If you utilize technique, make it invisible.
Ken Loach, The Culture Show BBC 22/5/2006
See also General Filmmaker page.
Links
Assistant Directors’ Guild UK
https://adguild.uk
Awardeo: Vimeo’s online film festival
Get an award before real-life film festivals
BAFTA’s SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.com/bafta
Interviews with film directors
Cinesisters
https://www.cinesisters.com
for female film directors
Directors’ Notes
https://directorsnotes.com
https://www.youtube.com/c/directorsnotes
Directors Now
https://www.directorsnow.com
Directors’ stories
Directors UK
https://directors.uk.com
IndieWire: 30 Directing Tips from 30 Filmmakers
New York Times: Anatomy of a Scene
(Directors analyse film scenes)
No Direction Home (Informal directors’ community, by invitation)
https://www.nodirectionhome.com
Papaya New Directors (Poland)
https://www.papayanewdirectors.com/en
Screen Anarchy: Director Interviews
https://screenanarchy.com/indie/interviews
Masterclass.com: 12 Tips for Directing Actors
https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-direct-actors
Orson Welles interviewed by Huw Wheldon (BBC) about the making of Citizen Kane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQpLmVzT_YA
Women Cinemakers
https://womencinemakers.com
Software
Books
BADHAM, John:
I’ll Be In My Trailer!: The Creative Wars Between Directors & Actors
(Michael Wiese Productions, 2006)
BADHAM, John
John Badham on Directing
(Michael Wiese Productions, 2013)
BETTMAN, Gil:
Directing the Camera: How Professional Directors Use a Moving Camera to Energize Their Films
(Michael Wiese Productions, 2013)
CHRISTIE, Ian:
Scorsese on Scorsese
(Faber, 2003)
COX, Alex:
Alex Cox’s Introduction to Film: A Director’s Perspective
(Camera, 2016)
DE FOREST, Sloan:
The Essential Directors: The Art & Impact of Cinema’s Most Influential Filmmakers
(Running Press Adult, 2021)
FORBES, Bryan:
Notes for a Life
Part 1 of autobiography of British film director & screenwriter and Head of Production at EMI
(Harper Collins, 1974)
FORBES, Bryan:
A Divided Life
Part 2 of autobiography of British film director & screenwriter and Head of Production at EMI
(Heinemann, 1992)
EDGAR-HUNT, Robert:
Directing Fiction
(AVA, 2009)
KATZ, Steve:
Film Directing: Cinematic Motion: A Workshop for Staging Scenes
(Michael Wiese Productions, 2004)
KATZ, Steve:
Film Directing: Shot by Shot
(Michael Wiese Productions, 2019)
KAZAN, Elia:
Kazan on Directing
(Knopf Doubleday, 2010)
KWAPIS, Ken:
But What I Really Want to Do Is Direct: Lessons from a Life Behind the Camera
(Griffin, 2020)
LUMET, Sidney:
Making Movies
(Bloomsbury, 1996)
MACKENDRICK, Alexander:
On Film-making: An Introduction to the Craft of the Director
(Faber & Faber, 2006)
MAMET, David:
On Directing Film
(Penguin, 1992)
MARSHALL, Peter:
Making the Magic Happen: The Art & Craft of Film Directing
(Michael Wiese Productions, 2017)
PROFERES, Nicholas:
Film Directing Fundamentals: See Your Film Before Shooting
(Routledge, 2017)
RABIGER, Michael:
Directing the Documentary
(Routledge, 2020)
RABIGER, Michael & HURBIS-CHERRIER, Mick:
Directing: Film Techniques & Aesthetics
(Routledge, 2020)
REA, Peter:
Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video
(Routledge, 2015)
REILLY, Tom:
The Big Picture: Filmmaking Lessons from a Life on the Set
(Thomas Dunne Books, 2009)
RODRIGUEZ, Roberto:
Rebel Without a Crew
(Penguin, 1996)
RUSSELL, Ken:
Directing Film: The Director’s Art from Script to Cutting Room
(Brassey’s Inc., 2005)
SCHREIBMAN, Myrl
The Film Director Prepares: A Practical Guide to Directing for Film & TV
(Gazelle Drake Publishing, 2006)
TARKOVSKY, Andrey:
Sculpting in Time: Reflections on the Cinema
(University of Texas Press, 1989)
TRAVIS, Mark:
Directing Feature Films
(Michael Wiese Productions, 2002)
TRAVIS, Mark:
The Film Director’s Bag of Tricks: Get What You Want from Writers & Actors
(Michael Wiese Productions, 2011)
WESTON, Judith:
Directing Actors: Creating Memorable Performances for Film & Television
(Michael Wiese Productions, 2021)
WESTON, Judith:
The Film Director’s Intuition: Script Analysis & Rehearsal Techniques
(Michael Wiese Productions, 2003)
WEXMAN, Virginia
Directing
(Rutgers University Press, 2017)