production and direction

Buddy Burger escapes his home planet, lands in Hollywood, and is cast in a new television series, but must pretend his six eyes and suction-cup feet are the costume and his human skin is real.

"At the center of every successful film is a producer. Producers bring films to life by orchestrating the major players--screenwriters, directors, talent, distributors, financiers--to create movie magic. . . . author and journalist Boris Kachka shadows award-winning producers Fred Berger and Michael London and emerging producer Siena Oberman as movies are pitched, financed, developed, shot, and released. Fly between Los Angeles and New York, with a stop in Utah at the Sundance Film Festival, for a candid look at this high-stakes profession. Learn how the industry has changed over the decades--from the heyday of studios to the reign of streaming platforms"--Dust jacket.

When a Hollywood director starts filming a blockbuster action film on the otherwise sleepy island of Martha's Vineyard, thirteen-year-old Gayle and her friends set out to make their own film and solve an island mystery.

Stand-up comedian and Hollywood box-office hit Kevin Hart keeps the laughs coming in an illustrated middle-grade novel about a boy who has big dreams of making a blockbuster superhero film.

When her long-estranged father invites sixteen-year-old Liv Varanakis to help him film a documentary about his theories on Atlantis, she looks forward to reconnecting but discovers he may have invited her to Greece for a very different reason.

Told from two viewpoints, high school seniors Haley, who had a public breakdown, and shy Lewis, long-time member of the TV Production class, find that filming documentaries about their classmates' hidden talents reveals their own aspirations.

Returning home to Mistletoe, Maine, to make amends, Dante West, now a famous movie star thrilled to help boost the town's economy, starts with librarian Lucy Marshall, his first love, with whom he wants a second chance.

"Eight-year-old kid barber J.D. joins forces with his sister, who has beauty shop dreams, to find stardom online"--.

Twelve-year-old aspiring filmmaker Noah stumbles his way through the summer at a Jewish sleepaway camp while his elderly grandfather is sending him messages by carrier pigeon about saving the world.

During the summer before seventh grade, Kaia, who enjoys living in Southern California, visiting the beach with her family, and creating movie make-up effects, makes a film with her friends to win a contest and hopefullly prevent her beloved great-grandtather from moving back to the Philippines.