NEW FILMMAKING BOOK TO RELEASE AT SUNDANCE & SLAMDANCE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NO-BUDGET FILMMAKING BOOK TO RELEASE AT SUNDANCE

Award-Winning Filmmaker to Launch New Book In Park City

Burbank, California – Anyone can make a movie. With no money. And be a well known filmmaker.

That's the premise of the new filmmaking book NO BUDGET FILMMAKING: Or How to be a Well Known Filmmaker and Be Broke at the Same Time, written by Jack Truman. Truman, an award-winning independent filmmaker, shares valuable tools, tips, and secrets of the industry trade in a book designed to help any aspiring moviemaker make their movie.

“It's not hard to make a movie. You just have to make your movie”, Truman stated in press materials. “Everyone has a story to tell. And there is an audience out there for your film. You just have to make it and get it out there. I wrote this book with the objective to help anyone make a movie with no money and become successful in the independent film world. I'm living proof it can be done. If I can do it, anyone can”.

An informative, alternative, out-of-the-box reference book for the film industry, NO BUDGET FILMMAKING covers a wide range of tips and tools: from proven filmmaking techniques, valuable industry resources, and more, this book guides the aspiring filmmaker from concept to distribution on the film festival circuit, and beyond. A must-have resource for anyone who needs help with making a low budget film on their own, NO BUDGET FILMMAKING is a breakthrough book for the next generation of filmmakers.

Author Jack Truman is an award-winning filmmaker and 25 year veteran of stage and film. A former professor at Texas A&M University, Truman has also appeared in several television series and major motion pictures. His film directorial debut, the award-winning hit cult short film PHONE SEX GRANDMA premiered at the 2006 Slamdance Film Festival. Combined, Truman's films have screened at over 300 film festivals worldwide to date. Jack was recently on the Short Film Jury at the 2012 Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

NO BUDGET FILMMAKING will be released in January at Park City in conjunction with the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.

Contact Director Jack Truman at dixiefilms@gmail.com

A Dixie Production

How to Make a Hit Short Film

Anyone can make a movie.

Everyone has a story to tell.

You just have to give yourself the drive to make your film. The world deserves it.

Get a camera. Start shooting. Exercise your mind. The simplest things that people are afraid to shoot make great short films. Once you shoot it, find a computer to do simple editing, then start sending it out to film festivals.

There is a world out there for your movie. All of us are storytellers. And everyone can be a filmmaker. Filmmaking is an art. But you can do it.

THE OUTHOUSE

Featuring Opal Dockery

A Dixie Film



WOODY THE REDNECK - The New Hit Short Film

When you're an independent filmmaker, you have complete control with your filmmaking. You get to let your voice be heard. And can change the world. And open people's eyes to truths they are afraid to see and hear.

Case in point: our new disturbing, shocking hit mockumentary short film WOODY THE REDNECK.

WOODY THE REDNECK is an 8 minute mockumentary short film about a racist conservative redneck in the boonies. WOODY premiered earlier this month in Cape Cod at the Woods Hole Film Festival. Last week, played Washington's Columbia Gorge Film Festival. Tomorrow, plays Alabama's Sidewalk Film Festival. And over the next month, screens festivals nationwide in Georgia, Nevada and California.

And based off the instant success of the brand new comedy short film, a web series of WOODY THE REDNECK is starting!

Everyone has a story to tell. Make your movie. Film your story. Let your voice be heard. The world deserves it.

WOODY THE REDNECK
Starring Jack Truman as Woody
A Dixie Film

Watch the brand new shocking web series episode of WOODY THE REDNECK:

PEANUT MAN - A Dixie Film

PEANUT MAN is the brand new 3 minute documentary short film about the first Black American Scientist: George Washington Carver.

A short film about a man born into slavery who changed the world with the peanut.

PEANUT MAN is a story about the life of legendary innovator, scientist, teacher and inventor George Washington Carver, AKA the Peanut Man. A story about a man born into slavery who revolutionized the world with the peanut.

Directed by Jack Truman

A Dixie Film

Check out PEANUT MAN on IMDB:

PEANUT MAN on IMDB

WOODY THE REDNECK - Exploding on the Festival Circuit

Our brand new mockumentary short film WOODY THE REDNECK is exploding on the film festival circuit!

WOODY THE REDNECK is the shocking 8 minute mockumentary satire short film about a racist conservative redneck who lives in the boonies. WOODY had its World Premiere last week in Cape Cod at the Woods Hole Film Festival. This weekend, the Washington state premiere at the Columbia Gorge Film Festival.

Over the next month, WOODY THE REDNECK will screen festivals in Massachusetts, Washington, Alabama, Las Vegas, and Georgia....with more to come!

Here's a list of scheduled film festival screenings lined up for WOODY THE REDNECK over the next month:

Woods Hole Film Festival, Cape Cod, MA
Columbia Gorge Film Festival, Tacoma, WA
Sidewalk Film Festival, Birmingham, AL
Cine Vegas Film Festival, Las Vegas, NV
Atlanta Underground Film Festival, Atlanta, GA

More to come! Woody is starting out with a bang!

And to coincide with the explosion of the new hit short film, a new web series is starting for WOODY THE REDNECK on Youtube, Blip TV and Funny or Die!

Welcome to Woody's world!

Woody the Redneck
A Dixie Film

Starring Jack Truman as Woody

Making Movies and Changing the World

It's a busy summer for Dixie  Films. Making movies and changing the world. One project at a time.

A brand new short film premiering on the East Coast next month; a new web series premiering the end of July, and setting up a feature film shoot for the fall.

More to come....

PHONE SEX GRANDMA: Over 100 Film Festivals...and Counting

The film festival circuit just keeps on rockin' for the cult classic short film mockumentary PHONE SEX GRANDMA!

PHONE SEX GRANDMA, the award winning short film from Dixie Films, has screened at over 100 film festivals worldwide to date. Just last month, PSG chalked up another award! Screening in Austin, PHONE SEX GRANDMA won BEST QUOTABLE FILM at the RXSM Film Festival.

The real-life Mother/Son filmmaking team of Jack Truman and Opal Dockery keeps on rockin'....combined, their films have screened at over 300 film festivals worldwide.

Indieflix, the online distributor for PHONE SEX GRANDMA, has made the entire 9 minute comedy short film available for viewing on Youtube. You can watch it now at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uABpGeKiYE

Documentary Web Series: STORIES FROM AN OLD STRIPPER - Season One

Season One of the new documentary web series from Dixie Films is now on Blip TV!

STORIES FROM AN OLD STRIPPER, Season One, has 7 episodes. You can watch all of them right now on the Blip TV Channel:

http://blip.tv/stories-from-an-old-stripper


Episode 6 - STORIES FROM AN OLD STRIPPER - The Ropes of Life:

Slamdance, L.A. Pilot Season, Web Series, and More...

It's a busy time for Dixie Films!

Can't believe it's been 6 months since we've written a blog here. Time flies when you're having fun!

And it's been flying for Dixie Films. Since being in sunny Southern California, non stop film projects:

Director Jack Truman was on the Short Film Jury at the 2012 Slamdance Film Festival in January.

Dixie Films is currently making a feature film documentary about Childhood Obesity, creating a new comedy web series set in Las Vegas, shooting commercials, and working with an Oscar winning actress to star in a new film. Busy times!

Stay tuned....

Watch the award winning cult short film THE OUTHOUSE! A Slamdance $99 Special Film. Directed by Jack Truman. Featuring Opal Dockery. Premiered at the 2008 Slamdance Film Festival. Screened at over 100 film festivals worldwide to date: