Maureen A. Ryan is a New York-based producer concentrating on narrative and documentary fea-ture films. She is co-producer of James Marsh's Man on Wire, winner of the 2009 Academy Award for Best Documentary and the 2009 BAFTA for Best British Film. She is also the co-producer of Project Nim and the production advisor on the Netflix 10-part series Making a Murderer by Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi. She is co-executive producer of the television pilot Stanistan for USA Network / Univer-sal Cable Productions. She is the executive producer on The Penny Black, a nonfiction episodic series with a pilot episode already produced, and is the re-creations producer for both Johanna Hamilton's new feature documentary, 1971, and for Alex Gibney's feature documentary, Mea Maxima Culpa: Si-lence in the House of God.
The author is also a producer of the independent narrative film BOMBER, which premiered at the SXSW Film Festival and won numerous film festival awards. Ryan's other producer credits include Red Flag, The Gates, Grey Gardens: From East Hampton to Broadway, The Team, The King, Torte Bluma, Last Hand Standing, and Wisconsin Death Trip. Additional awards have included a Peabody Award, three AICP Awards, a Billboard Award, a Freddie, a CMA Award, an ACM Award, 11 Addys, and 5 Tellys.
Ryan is the Chair / Associate Professor of Columbia University's Graduate Film program and holds an MFA (Film) from Columbia's School of the Arts and a BA (Economics) from Boston College. Ryan has taught film seminars domestically and internationally in Toronto, Canada; Amman, Jordan; Beijing, China; Brussels, Belgium; and Kinshasa, Congo (on a Fulbright grant). The first edition of Producer to Producer has been translated into Japanese and Chinese. The companion website is [...]

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
How This Book Works and Whom It Is For
Chapter 1: Development
Chapter 2: Script Breakdown
Chapter 3: Budgeting
Chapter 4: Funding
Chapter 5: Casting
Chapter 6: Preproduction
Chapter 7: Locations
Chapter 8: Legal
Chapter 9: Insurance
Chapter 10: Schedule
Chapter 11: Production
Chapter 12: Safety
Chapter 13: Wrap
Chapter 14: Postproduction
Chapter 15: Audio
Chapter 16: Music
Chapter 17: Archive Materials
Chapter 18: Marketing / Publicity
Chapter 19: Film Festivals
Chapter 20: Distribution / Sales
Chapter 21: What's Next?
Index
About the Author