Darth Vader vs Me
Using The Force to make Footprints
By Steven Peros
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/directing/article/steven_peros_footprints_hollywood_boulevard_20110408/
What's so unique about Footprints, the independent movie I directed, isn’t the price tag, though we did make it for way, way under the SAG Ultra Low budget contract of “under $200,000.” The real miracle of Footprints is the army we had to conquer—an army known as Hollywood Boulevard--and how many days it took to win the war. Sure, you can make a low-budget indie with 20-somethings mumblecoring in someone’s apartment, but try making a movie in the courtyard of Mann’s Chinese Theatre.