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Direction & Production Audiobooks

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    Cinema Speculation

    by Quentin Tarantino ...
    Narrated by Quentin Tarantino, Edoardo Ballerini ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 9 min

    A unique cocktail of personal memoir, cultural criticism and Hollywood history by the one and only Quentin Tarantino.The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the number one New York Times bestselling Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: a deliriously entertaining, wickedly intelligent cinema book as unique and creative as anything by Quentin Tarantino.In addition to being a... ... Read more

    $46.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Women Make Movies

    Interviews with Women in the Industry

    by John Gaspard ...
    Narrated by Female Synthesized Voices, Male Synthesized Voices ...
    Audiobook 4 - Fast, Cheap Filmmaking Books

    Unabridged

    2 hours 41 min

    Advice from the TrenchesAre you looking to break into the film business?Read valuable lessons from these formidable women about the art and craft of making movies: How to break in, stay in and rise to the top.Eleven women who've found success in the film and television industry (directors, actors, writers, editors, executives) talk about what it took to get them to where they are today.Amy ... Read more

    Free

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    Audience-ology

    How Moviegoers Shape the Films We Love

    by Kevin Goetz ...
    Narrated by Kevin Goetz ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 2 min

    Discover the fascinating and secretive process of audience testing of Hollywood movies through these firsthand stories from famous filmmakers, studio heads, and stars.Audience-ology takes you to one of the most unknown places in Hollywood—a place where famous directors are reduced to tears and multi-millionaire actors to fits of rage. A place where dreams are made and fortunes are lost. From “the ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    How Not to Make a Short Film

    Secrets from a Sundance Programmer

    by Roberta Marie Munroe ...
    Narrated by Roberta Marie Munroe ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 38 min

    Anyone can make a short film, right? Just grab some friends and your handheld and you can do it in a weekend or two before being accepted to a slew of film festivals, right?Wrong.Roberta Munroe screened short film submissions at Sundance for five years, and is an award-winning short filmmaker in her own right. So she knows a thing or two about how not to make a short film. From the first draft of ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Batman’s Batman

    A Memoir from Hollywood, Land of Bilk and Money

    by Michael E. Uslan ...
    Narrated by Michael E. Uslan ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 46 min

    An insider’s look at Hollywood and how movies and television shows are madeIn Batman’s Batman, Michael E. Uslan, executive producer of the Batman movie franchise, offers an insider’s look at Hollywood and the process of how movies and television shows go from the drawing board to your screens.Continuing the delightful tale of his adventures begun in The Boy Who Loved Batman, Uslan draws on both ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Magic Time

    My Life in Hollywood

    by Hawk Koch, Molly Jordan ...
    Narrated by Hawk Koch ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 29 min

    Hawk Koch is a renowned film producer who has served as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He has produced some of the most iconic films of all time, including The Way We Were, Chinatown, Heaven Can Wait, Gorky Park, and Wayne’s World, among many others. He was born into the business, the son of legendary Howard W. Koch, who ran Frank Sinatra’s production company, was ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Release the Snyder Cut

    The Crazy True Story Behind the Fight That Saved Zack Snyder’s Justice League

    by Sean O'Connell ...
    Narrated by George Newbern ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 8 min

    We're currently in the golden age of superhero blockbusters. Movies like Black Panther, Wonder Woman, Joker, and Avengers: Endgame routinely break box office records and compete for Oscars. Yet, Zack Snyder's 2017 behemoth Justice League-a veritable sure bet at the Hollywood casino-tanked miserably, and the behind-the-scenes reasons for the movie's demise are fascinating. The true story behind ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Transitions

    A Director’s Journey and Motivational Handbook

    by Pete Chatmon ...
    Narrated by Pete Chatmon ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 12 min

    Becoming a director is not just about making a film, webseries, commercial, or music video. The opportunity to direct for television is not a given because you’ve successfully completed a project in another medium. Turning your passion into your profession requires the ability to make transitions at the exact moment a pivot is needed, with creativity and confidence. This book helps directors ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Video Production and Editing Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle: The Video Editing and Digital Filmmaking

    by L.M. Bradley, and Lucas Warehan ...
    Narrated by Marcus Mulenga ...

    Unabridged

    26 min

    Video Production and Editing Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle: The Video Editing and Digital FilmmakingYou have probably encountered hundreds of videos online and you can easily determine which videos have great quality because they are the ones that grab your attention and make you watch until the end. Being able to create beautiful videos has many benefits, either for personal or professional use. An ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Kubrick's Men

    by Richard Rambuss ...
    Narrated by Brian Holden ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 45 min

    The work of Stanley Kubrick amounts to a sustained reflection on the male condition: past, present, and future. The persistent theme of his filmmaking is less violence or sex than it is the pressurized exertion of masculinity in unusual or extreme circumstances, where it may be taxed or exaggerated to various effects, tragic and comic-or metamorphosed, distorted, and even undone. The stories that ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Selznick

    The Man Who Produced Gone with the Wind

    by Bob Thomas ...
    Narrated by Carl Reiner ...

    Abridged

    5 hours 6 min

    It was the triumph and the tragedy of his life. As a producer, he had reached the pinnacle of success; there was nowhere else to go. In this biography, noted Hollywood chronicler Bob Thomas reveals the stormy career of a shrewd, self-confident intellectual whiz kid who today personifies the image of a studio head during the Golden Age of movies. It tells of the women Selznick loved and the ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Improv for Indie Filmmakers

    by Ivan Malekin ...
    Narrated by Trevor O'Hare ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 25 min

    "If you want to make a indie film fast and on a budget then you need to read this book." ~ Alex Ferrari (Indie Film Hustle)Improvisation is a form of performance in which the players have no script. Free of conventional methods and constraints, improv gives filmmakers and actors complete freedom to explore characters and relationships in depth and capture genuine authenticity on camera.It has ... Read more

    $5.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    HiBrow: Richard Strange's A Mighty Big If - Mike Figgis

    by Richard Strange, Mike Figgis ...
    Narrated by Richard Strange, Mike Figgis ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 3 min

    Richard Strange's 'A Mighty Big If' event at The Crypt, St Martin in the Fields, London. Writer and adventurer Richard regularly staged entertaining and illuminating conversations with major cultural figures.HiBROW captures a lively and informed encounter between the groundbreaking filmmaker and artist Mike Figgis and the raconteur Richard Strange on his 'A Mighty Big If' show. ... Read more

    $5.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Camera Lies

    Acting for Hitchcock

    by Dan Callhan ...
    Narrated by George Newbern ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 13 min

    Alfred Hitchcock is said to have once remarked, "Actors are cattle," a line that has stuck in the public consciousness ever since. For Hitchcock, acting was a matter of contrast and counterpoint, valuing subtlety and understatement over flashiness. He felt that the camera was duplicitous, and directed actors to look and act conversely. In The Camera Lies, author Dan Callahan spotlights the many ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    A Life in Movies

    Stories from 50 years in Hollywood

    by Irwin Winkler ...
    Narrated by Michael Butler Murray ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 58 min

    The list of films Irwin Winkler has produced in his more-than-fifty-year career is extraordinary: Rocky, Goodfellas, Raging Bull, De-Lovely, The Right Stuff, and Creed. His films have been nominated for fifty-two Academy Awards, including five movies for Best Picture, and have won twelve. In A Life in Movies, his charming and insightful memoir, Winkler tells the stories of his career through his ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Vampire Movies (Close-Ups, Book 2)

    by Charles Bramesco, Little White Lies ...
    Narrated by Christopher Ragland ...
    Audiobook 2 - Close-Ups

    Unabridged

    3 hours 7 min

    The indispensable pocket guide to the world of vampire movies, from Nosferatu to A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night.ALSO AVAILABLE:Close-Ups: Wes AndersonClose-Ups: New York MoviesWhen F. W. Murnau brought Nosferatu to the screen in 1922 he ushered in the bloody reign of cinema’s most venerable villain – the vampire. Nocturnal, fanged and insatiable for human blood, t... ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Close-Up on Sunset Boulevard

    Billy Wilder, Norma Desmond, and the Dark Hollywood Dream

    by Sam Staggs ...
    Narrated by Donald Corren ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 19 min

    Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, a classic film noir and also a damning dissection of the Hollywood dream factory, evokes the glamour and ruin of the stars who subsist on that dream. It’s also one long in-joke about the movie industry and those who made it great—and who were, in turn, destroyed by it. One of the most critically admired films of the twentieth century, Sunset Boulevard is also ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Goldwyn

    A Biography

    by A. Scott Berg ...
    Narrated by Roddy McDowall ...

    Abridged

    3 hours 1 min

    In 1895, teenager Schmuel Goldfisz left the Warsaw ghetto to become Samuel Goldwyn, one of the most acclaimed producers in Hollywood history. Among Goldwyn' s films are such classics as The Pride of the Yankees, Wuthering Heights, and The Bishop' s Wife— all famous for conveying the “ Goldwyn Touch." In this detailed biography, acclaimed author A. Scott Berg recounts the fascinating life of one of ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Gung Ho Filmmaking: AKA Eyepiece, Adventures in Canadian Film and Television

    by Vic Sarin ...
    Narrated by John Heerema ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 33 min

    To Vic Sarin, film is a window to magic. Touching people with his art and celebrating the human side comes through in every chapter of this audiobook, just as is comes through in every one of his films. His trailblazing, gung-ho approach to film making is remarkable and inspiring beyond any question of a doubt. His stories about John Lennon, Prince Charles, Christopher Plummer, Paul Gross, Helena ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    ألف مشهد ومشهد

    by مؤمن المحمدي ...
    Narrated by محمد العربي ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 31 min

    هل أنت من محبي الأفلام؟! هل تقضي وقتك بالساعات أمامها تُشاهد كلَّ جديدٍ وحديث والأدهى من ذلك أنّك تبدأ بقراءة مراجعاتٍ عنها وتحليلات إخراجية وفنية إذا كنت ممن يعشقون الأفلام ويندمجون بتفاصيلها ويهتمون برأي الناقد عنها فهذا الكتاب سيشفي غليلك ويرضي شغفك عن طريق استعراض سبعة أفلام بالتفصيل برؤية شخصية وفنية أكثر منها نقدية وهذه الأفلام هي: ابراهيم الابيض، ريا وسكينة، ردّ قلبي، شمشمون ولبلب، اللص ... Read more

    $9.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Robert Altman and the Elaboration of Hollywood Storytelling

    by Mark Minett ...
    Narrated by Sean Runnette ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 14 min

    Robert Altman and the Elaboration of Hollywood Storytelling reveals an Altman barely glimpsed in previous critical accounts of the filmmaker. This re-examination of his seminal work during the "Hollywood Renaissance" or "New Hollywood" period of the early 1970s (including M*A*S*H, Brewster McCloud, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Images, The Long Goodbye, Thieves Like Us, California Split, and Nashville) ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Producer to Producer

    A Step-by-Step Guide to Low-Budget Independent Film Producing

    by Melanie Dobson ...
    Narrated by Susie Berneis ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 56 min

    This is a comprehensive bible to low-budget film production for emerging and professional producers. Structured to guide the listener through production meetings, every aspect of the film-production process is outlined in detail. Invaluable checklists—which begin twelve weeks before shooting and continue through principal (and secondary) photography and postproduction—keep the filmmaker on track ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Directing Actors

    Creating Memorable Performances for Film and Television

    by Judith Weston ...
    Narrated by Judith Weston ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 41 min

    In this essential guide to acting, internationally renowned directing coach Judith Weston demonstrates what constitutes a good performance, what actors want from a director, and what directors do wrong. She also goes over script analysis and preparation and how actors work, and she shares important and helpful insights into the director/actor relationship. ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Story of Film

    by Mark Cousins ...
    Narrated by to be announced ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 43 min

    An updated edition – with completely new chapters – of the most accessible and compelling history of the cinema yet published, and complements Mark Cousins' fascinating 15-hour film documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey.Filmmaker and author Mark Cousins shows how filmmakers are influenced both by the historical events of their times, and by each other. He demonstrates, for example, how Douglas ... Read more

    $25.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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