"How to Make Money Making Movies: The Secrets of Becoming a Profitable Filmmaker" (published by W Business Books) hits stores TODAY, with a portion of the proceeds going to the Hollywood Arts www.hollywood-arts.org charity.

"The business part of show business – that’s what they don’t teach you in film school – how to make money"
- Mario Van Peebles

"What they don't teach you in Film School - how to make money!."
- Lloyd Kaufman

"The joys, thrills, humor, and please-god-come-save-me-nightsweat-terrors of making movies are all honestly captured between these covers."
- William Wisher

"Tanya York rips back the curtains and shows you how the profitable sausages are really made!"
- Josh Olson

A good story, good technique, or even a familiar face in the cast will not guarantee a movie’s financial success. A good strategy can—a strategy that takes into account all the basic elements that will inspire a distributor to release your movie and inspire an audience to see it.
Tanya York, a highly successful producer and distributor of independent films, offers up all the ins and outs, benefits and terrors of making independent movies. She shows you how the distribution of one of the world’s most glamorous industries works, and how best to succeed in it. She takes you through the filmmaking process from story development to movie release and tells you how to avoid the pit falls into which most filmmakers plunge.
Hollywood producers, directors, writers and distributors interviewed for How to Make Money Making Movies include James Cameron, Mario Van Peebles, Josh Olson, William Wisher, Jr., Darryl Quarles, Pierre David, Paul Hertzberg, Lloyd Kaufman, Steve Wang, Carlos Gallardo and Ray Canella.
“After reading this book, you will have run out of excuses not to put your camera where your mouth is.” — Josh Olson, director and Academy Award-nominated writer
About the Author
Named as one of Hollywood’s most influential women by the Hollywood Reporter, Tanya York is one of filmmaking’s top producers and distributors of high concept genre-driven independent films throughout the world. She has produced 30 urban, action & horror feature films, creating a genre-specific “faster-cheaper-better” business model that is emulated industry-wide, and has distributed more than 500 films. She is founder and CEO of York Entertainment, York International Inc., and Urban Girl productions, she has enjoyed distribution in every major video retailer nationwide.