Auteurpreneur: How Indie Authors Can Learn From Indie Filmmakers
The great film director, Francois Truffaut, and others of the French New Wave in the 1950s and 1960s, developed what is known as the Auteur Theory. This theory asserts that the director should be the true author of a film. As a Film and Television Writer and Novelist, I can only accept this theory if the Director is also the Writer, otherwise, not so much.
There are certainly auteurs in film, almost exclusively produced independently, movies made outside of Hollywood’s studio system. These films retain the creator’s original vision and style. A prime example of this is Truffaut’s wonderfully …