What Do You Need to Make Your First Feature Film?
The most comprehensive book to produce and distribute your first feature film with just ₹5 lakhs.
An Aspiring Filmmaker’s Definite Guide to Debuting Film Career
5/5
Extensively documented production process and it has many interesting insights.
Rahul Riji Nair
National Award Winning Film's Director
10 Things This Book Will Teach You
Learn how to…
- Raise money for independent filmmaking
- Budget for low costs
- Do preproduction that saves you ₹25 lakhs
- Get free and paid resources for an easy production
- Sell your film on Amazon Prime
- Make your first feature film in 7 steps
- Make the film without big stars, or large sums of money
- Shoot on a smartphone
- Send the film to festivals
- Market and sell your film
…and much more.
Praise for the Indian Indie Film
5/5
"Filmmaking explained in simple words. The narration is so perfect and clear that we wont have the smallest of doubts in the things explained."
Abilash George
Amazon Customer Review
5/5
"More important than film history and aesthetics"
Harshitha S
Writer, Filmmaker
5/5
"An inspiration!"
Raj Bk
Actor, Filmmaker
5/5
"What is commendable is that Ashik has shared his learnings from the past 5 years into this condensed book in a selfless manner; whereas the industry is known to be highly secretive. Highly recommended.
Rajiv Mathew
Amazon Customer Review
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Let Me Tell You More About the Book…
Everyone says to go and shoot your film on a smartphone. Do it cheap. Make a low budget film. But besides a phone, what else do you need to make your first feature film? It is not stars, stunts, money, music, dance, exotic locations, camera, VFX…!
This book will help you:
- Gain knowledge and confidence to go make your movie
- Raise money and make a micro budget film for ₹5 lakhs, on a mobile phone
- Sell the movie on Amazon Prime and gain profit and international viewership
Who Is This Book For?
This book is for you if you:
- Are an aspiring writer, filmmaker, or producer
- Want to make a film with available resources
- Want to learn the dos and don’ts of smartphone filmmaking
- Want to send the film to festivals or release it on OTT platforms
This book is not for you if you:
- Want to make a star studded high budget commercial movie
The Indian Indie Film is intensive and written from experience. It is a complete guide on low budget filmmaking and selling it.
About Ashik Satheesh
Ashik’s aim is to make world class films. He set foot into the professional arena by writing and directing Munnariv (2020), the first ever Malayalam feature film to be shot entirely on a iPhone.
Besides Munnariv he also made over 10 short films, assisted several Ads and award-winning feature films like Ottamuri Velicham (2017). Ashik is an Engineer by degree who worked with Tata Consultancy Services in Mumbai. He quit, traveled across India soul searching and finally choose to follow his passion for stories. Besides making great films, he also loves to teach filmmaking.
