I Wake up Screening!: Everything You Need to Know about Making Independent Films Including a Thousand Reasons Not To

Frank D. Gilroy is a compulsive diarist who wrote I Wake Up Screening! while he made four independent feature films—each accorded three stars in Leonard Maltin’s TV Movies and Video Guide—with a total investment of two million dollars (for all four films!).

These intimate logs of the making of Desperate Characters, Once in Paris, The Gig, and The Luckiest Man in the World show clearly that a film school that doesn’t include in its curriculum dis…