Naked Filmmaking

Jimmy Ennett – Australian Naked Filmmaker

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Jimmy Ennett – Australian Naked Filmmaker

A few months ago I was reviewing my Youtube account and saw a mile of comments left on my videos. A few of them were from a young filmmaker in Australia named Jimmy Ennett who said that he was a one-man filmmaker, too, and that he’d even bought my book Naked Filmmaking. This was very personally uplifting for me to learn that not only was Naked Filmmaking reaching beyond U.S. borders, but that it was also spreading out into new hemispheres. I quickly sent this young compatriot a thank you e-mail and we began corresponding. I wanted to know...

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Naked Filmmaking – Now Part of the Kindle Lending Library

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Naked Filmmaking – Now Part of the Kindle Lending Library

Naked Filmmaking is now a part of the newly introduced Amazon Kindle Owner’s Lending Library. This should allow more people the opportunity to try the book out than would have before. And I believe that once you try the book, you’ll get the desire and the confidence to want to make your own film — in which case you’ll want to purchase the book to have it with you all the time, on your laptop, on your iPhone, on your Android, where ever you go. So check out the Kindle Library — and check out Naked Filmmaking.

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Price Reduction – Get Naked For The Holidays!

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Price Reduction – Get Naked For The Holidays!

I’ve just reduced the price of my book Naked Filmmaking from $16.95 to $14.95 in softcover and from $9.99 to $7.99 in the Kindle ebook edition to make it easier to purchase through the end of the year. I’ve been very grateful to everyone who has purchased my book over the past eighteen months that it has been available on Amazon and for the notes and feedback that I’ve received from the people across the country, as well as from the U.K. and Australia. If you’ve been on the fence about whether to give the book a try, now...

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HAPPY 2011 & WELCOME NEW NAKED FILMMAKERS!

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HAPPY 2011 & WELCOME NEW NAKED FILMMAKERS!

I haven’t posted anything in a several weeks. My apologies for that. One of my New Year’s resolutions is to add new posts every few days. Firstly, I want to welcome all the new and aspiring naked filmmakers out there! Ever since my book Naked Filmmaking: How To Make A Feature Film – Without A Crew – For $10,000 Or Less was published last March it has been selling a small but steady number of copies every month. However, starting around the middle of November, with the lead up to Christmas, that started to change dramatically. Over the past...

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San Joaquin Delta College Gets Naked

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San Joaquin Delta College Gets Naked

My book Naked Filmmaking is now being used in a way that I never expected — in the classroom. The Radio-Television-Film-Multimedia Department at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, California, is suggesting it as worth reading to their film students. Several blog posts back at the beginning of summer, I told about participating at MediaFest 2010 at San Joaquin Delta and participated in a panel discussion on careers in film and television and the future of filmmaking, where I met media instructor Will Story. Will bought several copies of Naked Filmmaking and asked me to speak to the media...

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Kindle Gets Naked!

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Kindle Gets Naked!

Naked Filmmaking is available now as an Amazon Kindle ebook. I’ve been hearing about ebooks and the Kindle for a while but didn’t think it was very cost practicle. At $300-$400 dollars for something that your could read a book on it just sounded like another expensive tech toy. Then when Amazon announced a month or so ago that ebook sales had surpassed sales of hardcover books I suddenly took notice. My attention was cemented the following week when Amazon introduced their new series of new and improved Kindles starting at only $130 that can hold 2,000 books. On...

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“Mike — Your book is phenomenal.”

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“Mike — Your book is phenomenal.”

This is another stab at shameless self-promotion. Several blog postings ago I told of my visit to participate as a speaker at Media Fest 2010 at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton. The students were extremely responsive to what I had to say about make-it-yourself filmmaking and the man behind the event, Will Story, head of the media department, bought a wopping fifteen copies of Naked Filmmaking to give to his students. Will and I have exchanged a series of e-mails since then and this represents a condensation (with Will’s permission) of those messages. Read, weep and rush to...

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Incredible New Review For “Naked Filmmaking”

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Incredible New Review For “Naked Filmmaking”

As you know, a couple weekends ago I was a guest speaker at Media Fest 2010 at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton. A talented, eager and hard working bunch. Almost as soon as I got in the door one particular student approached me, introduced himself as Solomon Stadtner and said he wanted to make films. The next morning this e-mail was waiting for me: “My name is Solomon and we met yesterday at Media Fest. I just wanted to let you know that I really enjoyed your panel discussion. You seem to have a lot of intriguing ideas about...

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Delta College Gets “Naked”

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Delta College Gets “Naked”

Saturday, May 22, I participated in Media Fest 2010 put on by William Story, the Radio-Television Instructor at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton. An event about film, video, media, photography. My principal contribution was participating on a filmmaking panel along with Hugh Lifton, Stockton-based Director of Photography, and Benn Ferrer, D.P. with  Transvideo Studios in San Francisco. I was the independent of the bunch and addressed the student filmmakers about my brand of one-man filmmaking because these were the exact audience that I wrote Naked Filmmaking for – people with the desire to to make films, but who...

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Naked Filmmaking Book and all the movies now available on Amazon!

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Naked Filmmaking Book and all the movies now available on Amazon!

My appearance on KCRA-3 TV’s morning news program this week officially kicks off the launch of the long-talked of book Naked Filmmaking: How To Make A Feature-Length Film – Without A Crew – For $10,000 Or Less and all my films now being made available on DVD from Amazon.com. Please forgive my rambling, this interview was done in the midst of a week of a terrible fever. Quite literally, I was weak with 101 degree temperature, Bonnie pumped me full of Advil, drove me to the station, did the interview, was home and back in bed an hour later,...

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