NEW DARK AGES––HOW A PUNK MOVIE EMERALD CITIES GOT ITS IMPROVDELUXE FILMMAKER'S ON-LOCATION MANUAL/B&W, Limited, Ring-Bound 1st Edition ©2020.

NEW DARK AGES––HOW A PUNK MOVIE EMERALD CITIES GOT ITS IMPROV is a bold new addition to Rick Schmidt’s how-to books about moviemaking, that include Feature Filmmaking at Used-Car Prices. and Extreme DV. NEW DARK AGES lets the reader participate in Rick’s improv decision-making process as he applies his stream-of-consciousness approach.
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Readers can learn from Rick’s open-universe writing and directing, where he dares to proceed against all odds, often with little money and little time to complete the task. His bestselling how-tos have helped launch the careers of numerous Hollywood moviemakers, including writer/director Kevin Smith, writer/director/actor Vin Diesel (“The book changed my life.”), Tom DiCillo (LIVING IN OBLIVION), and many others.

“This is a fun read. How Schmidt overcomes obstacles, physical and mental, is a miracle of inventiveness, imagination, perseverance and determination matter-of-factly remembered and told."
––Bibbi Lee, translator, NOTHING GROWS BY MOONLIGHT, author of A WEEK OF MENUS/CHATEAU DE LESVAULT.

Rick hopes this book will add a new chapter to his earlier groundbreaking moviemaking tomes, so that future digital moviemakers can just jump in with a new confidence that their IMPROV movies can be shot, edited and successfully completed. Hopefully, NEW DARK AGES will help readers break into the new emerging markets of indie feature-length moviemaking, successfully streaming their productions in the virtual theatrical platforms (Netflix, Amazon Prime, youtube, others), while premiering at top film festivals worldwide.