A podcast about how to make film and TV by filmmakers who actually make them. Interviewing guests from the film-making world from Indie film to Hollywood and everything in between. Hosts Giles Alderson (The Dare), Lucinda Rhodes Thakrar (Knights of Camelot), Christian James (Fanged Up) & Andy Rodger (World of Darkness), Dom Lenoir (Winter Ridge) and many others.
Episodes
Tuesday Jun 02, 2020
Tuesday Jun 02, 2020
Anna & The Apocalypse director John McPhail joins Giles Alderson to chat how to make films.
They discuss what makes us fall in love with movies ? How important it is to know your audience. How John made a short called ‘Notes’ based on a real story of not ever meeting a guy he used to live with.
They also chat about going from shorts to his first feature ‘Where do we go from Here?’ by using some of his award money winnings to pay for it. How important it is to have the ability to phone up and ask for things - and especially how to get money from people. The SEIS route
Getting post help to complete the feature after being turning down for government funding
Why and how to get Into film festivals and how to use them to your advantage
John describes how Anna And The Apocalypse came about and having imposter syndrome and how it felt amazing to be directing and he gives some amazing advice for filmmakers
WATCH Anna and the Apocalypse here: AATA
WATCH Where do we go from Here? here: WDWGFH
Follow John on Twitter here https://twitter.com/worryingdrake
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Joining us on June 4th at 6pm (GMT) for our ONLINE SUMMIT are guests Sharon Maguire (Bridget Jones Dairy, Bridget Jones' Baby) Dan Mazer (Borat, Bruno, Home Alone re-boot), Angie Peters (UK Actors Tweet Up) & Shakyra Dowling (Casting Director)!
Grab your Tickets here: https://makeyourfilmwebinarv3.eventbrite.co.uk
We will, as per usual be donating to support FILM AND TV EMERGENCY COVID 19 FUND
WATCH The Dare Or check out the Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5aZVm2drjY
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WATCH Fanged Up
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Tuesday May 26, 2020
Tuesday May 26, 2020
Director Jack Spring joins Giles Alderson and Christian James to talk about how he made his debut feature 'Destination Dewsbury'.
Jack tells us how he taught himself to raise money for his film by setting up a hot tub business at 18 years old and after netting over a £100K turnover sold it a year later so he could make his feature film Destination Dewsbury.
He tells us how he learnt how to package a film, how he got Destination Dewsbury into cinemas, how he get signed with William Morris Agency. What happens after filming and making a second film made is just as hard.
This such a fun episode and it's packed with stories and info and tips on how you can go and make your film too. Enjoy this weeks ep. And if so why not give us a review and share on Twitter.
Jack Spring website https://www.jackspring.co.uk/
LISTEN to Jack's podcast Locked Down But Not Out Podcast
WATCH Destination Dewsbury here https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/detail/B07QBGJ9D6/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r
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MAKE YOUR FILM is back!
Joining us on June 4th at 6pm (GMT) for our ONLINE SUMMIT are guests Sharon Maguire (Bridget Jones Dairy, Briget Jones' Baby) Dan Mazer (Borat, Bruno, Home Alone re-boot), Angie Peters (UK Actors Tweet Up) & Shakyra Dowling (Casting Director) and more announced very soon!
Grab your Tickets here: https://makeyourfilmwebinarv3.eventbrite.co.uk
We will, as per usual be donating to support FILM AND TV EMERGENCY COVID 19 FUND
Check out The MacSmiths https://www.themacsmiths.com 020 7739 6633
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WATCH The Dare Or check out the Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5aZVm2drjY
WATCH A Serial Killers Guide to Life (OUT NOW) www.aserialkillersguidetolife.com
WATCH Fanged Up
Raindance events www.raindance.org
The Filmmakers Podcast recommends Performance Insurance here https://www.astonlark.com/performance/
Giles Alderson's website
Help us out and Subscribe, listen and review us on iTunes, Spotify, Podbean or wherever you get your podcasts but more importantly, tell you pals about this podcast
Follow us on Twitter @filmmakerspod @makeyourfilm20 @gilesalderson @robbiemckane @DirDomLenoir @Food4ThoughtDoc @35mmdop@Cjamesdirect @dan710ths @FangedUpFilm @thedaremovie @philmblog @IanSharp1
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Tuesday May 19, 2020
Tuesday May 19, 2020
Ep 164 - The delightful and very talented Neasa Hardiman joins us this week to talk about her new feature film, the excellent Sea Fever (OUT NOW!)
Neasa joins Giles Alderson (The Dare) and Dom Lenoir (Winter Ridge) remotely to talk about her joy of film-making, the journey she took to get here and what she learnt along the way.
They chat going from shorts and documentaries to TV and film. Making Happy Valley and winning a BAFTA for doing so, going on to big US TV shows such as Jessica Jones and how Sea Fever came about.
They talk working wit actors, pitching projects to get grants, collaborating and how you have to believe in your work. Neasa talks about knowing what your project is before writing it, how you can use the language of film-making, story boarding and always knowing the budget you are aiming for.
They chat in depth about Sea Fever and how it was made, working with Dougray Scott, Connie Nielson, Hermione Corfield and the actors, filming on a boat, filming at sea, editing and distribution,
Follow Neasa on twitter @NeasaHardiman
WATCH the SEA FEVER here:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sea-Fever
Neasa website https://neasahardiman.com/
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MAKE YOUR FILM is back!
Joining us on June 4th at 6pm (GMT) for our ONLINE SUMMIT is guests Dan Mazer (Borat, Briget Jones Baby, Home Alone re-boot), Angie Peters (UK Actors Tweet Up) & Shakyra Dowling (Casting Director) and more announced very soon!
Grab your Tickets here: https://makeyourfilmwebinarv3.eventbrite.co.uk
We will, as per usual be donating to support FILM AND TV EMERGENCY COVID 19 FUND
Check out The MacSmiths https://www.themacsmiths.com 020 7739 6633
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Find them on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/macrepairhackney/
WATCH The Dare Or check out the Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5aZVm2drjY
WATCH A Serial Killers Guide to Life (OUT NOW) www.aserialkillersguidetolife.com
Raindance events www.raindance.org
The Filmmakers Podcast recommends Performance Insurance here https://www.astonlark.com/performance/
Giles Alderson's website
Help us out and Subscribe, listen and review us on iTunes, Spotify, Podbean or wherever you get your podcasts but more importantly, tell you pals about this podcast
Follow us on Twitter @filmmakerspod @makeyourfilm20 @gilesalderson @robbiemckane @DirDomLenoir @Food4ThoughtDoc @35mmdop@Cjamesdirect @dan710ths @FangedUpFilm @thedaremovie @philmblog @IanSharp1
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Tuesday May 12, 2020
Tuesday May 12, 2020
This week we talk making a MMA style Cagefighting movie with director Jesse Quinones and producer Shayne Putzlocher which releases this SAT May 16th on FITE.com
Giles Alderson had a chat with Jesse and Shayne about their careers, how they got to where they are. They talk about shooting and choreographing a action film, pre vis and storyboards and why you need to come as prepared as possible.
They talk about Jesse's debut movie Calloused hands and what he learnt as a filmmaker and how he met Shayne at Cannes Film Festival and pitched him the movie and six months later he was on set shooting it. Shayne talks about his process as a producer and what needs to be done to get a movie made.
We chat Cagefighter:World Collide, casting, working with actors and gives so many tricks and tips to filmmakers.
WATCH Cagefighter: Worlds Collide LIVE STREAM this Sat 16th May here: https://www.fite.tv/watch/cagefighter-worlds-collide/2p715/
Follow Jesse on Twitter here: www.twitter.com/Jessequinones81 & Shayne here: www.twitter.com/sputzlocher
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MAKE YOUR FILM is back!
Joining us on June 4th at 6pm (GMT) for our ONLINE SUMMIT is guests Dan Mazer (Borat, Briget Jones Baby, Home Alone re-boot), Angie Peters (UK Actors Tweet Up) & Shakyra Dowling (Casting Director) and more announced very soon!
Grab your Tickets here: https://makeyourfilmwebinarv3.eventbrite.co.uk
We will, as per usual be donating to support FILM AND TV EMERGENCY COVID 19 FUND
Check out The MacSmiths https://www.themacsmiths.com 020 7739 6633
Need your Mac repairing. Then head to The MacSmiths
Find them on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/macrepairhackney/
WATCH The Dare Or check out the Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5aZVm2drjY
WATCH A Serial Killers Guide to Life (OUT NOW) www.aserialkillersguidetolife.com
Raindance events www.raindance.org
The Filmmakers Podcast recommends Performance Insurance here https://www.astonlark.com/performance/
Giles Alderson's website
Help us out and Subscribe, listen and review us on iTunes, Spotify, Podbean or wherever you get your podcasts but more importantly, tell you pals about this podcast
Follow us on Twitter @filmmakerspod @makeyourfilm20 @gilesalderson @robbiemckane @DirDomLenoir @Food4ThoughtDoc @35mmdop@Cjamesdirect @dan710ths @FangedUpFilm @thedaremovie @philmblog @IanSharp1
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Tuesday May 05, 2020
Tuesday May 05, 2020
This week MovieBar co owner and producer & director Esther Turan joins us to talk how to make feature films and specifically how to co-pro with a production company.
Esther, whose production company Movie Bar, based in Budapest in Hungary, Europe has produced over 500 commercials and 30 films and TV productions sits down with Giles Alderson (The Dare, A Serial Killers Guide to Life) to chat about her career, how she made a name for herself producing and directing BP Underground and moving to Hollywood.
They also talk Film School, casting, self funding feature films, getting money from the government and producing Neil Marshall's latest film The Reckoning.
She also give some amazing advice to filmmakers, directors, producers and actors.
Check out MOVIEBAR PRODUCTIONS here: http://www.movie-bar.net/film-television/
Follow EstherTuran on Twitter here: www.twitter.com/estherturan
Listen to the Podcast Episode with Neil Marshall (director of The Reckoning) here https://thefilmmakerspodcast.com/tag/neil-marshall/
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WATCH The Dare Or check out the Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5aZVm2drjY
WATCH A Serial Killers Guide to Life (OUT NOW) www.aserialkillersguidetolife.com
Raindance events www.raindance.org
The Filmmakers Podcast recommends Performance Insurance here https://www.astonlark.com/performance/
Giles Alderson's website
Help us out and Subscribe, listen and review us on iTunes, Spotify, Podbean or wherever you get your podcasts but more importantly, tell you pals about this podcast
Follow us on Twitter @filmmakerspod @makeyourfilm20 @gilesalderson @robbiemckane @DirDomLenoir @Food4ThoughtDoc @35mmdop@Cjamesdirect @dan710ths @FangedUpFilm @thedaremovie @philmblog @IanSharp1
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Tuesday Apr 28, 2020
Tuesday Apr 28, 2020
This week Giles Alderson (The Dare) and Ian Sharp (The Marker) had a natter with very well established movie producer Todd Garner about the state of the film industry, how you can get movies made and why now is the best time to get your projects ready!
Todd Garner, the Hollywood veteran has overseen 170 films (and counting) who's credits include xXx, Are We There Yet, Next, 13 Going on 30, Anger Management, The Fog, The Sorcerers Apprentice, Scouts Guide to the Apocalypse, Haunt, HellBoy, Tag and Black Hawk Down to name a few, talks about the movie business today, how he got started, what his ambitions are within cinemas and how they need to adapt.
Giles and Ian also talk to Todd about how now is the best time to write your projects and to really know what kind of movie you want to make. How you can use your imagination and how to find stories. How we will come through this pandemic and how even through wars and depressions we have always craved stories.
We also go into details about how Todd puts a project together from indie films to studio movies and he gives some brilliant advice for actors, producers, screenwriters and directors.
Follow Todd on Twitter here: www.twitter.com/Todd_Garner
Listen to Todd's brilliant podcast The Producers Guide here https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-producers-guide-todd-garner-hollywoods-elite/id1363232295
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WATCH The Marker (Out Now) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Marker-DVD-John-Hannah/dp/B074ZZTYPZ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1507538877&sr=8-1&keywords=the+marker+john+hannah
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Tuesday Apr 21, 2020
Tuesday Apr 21, 2020
Join us on this weeks episode as we talk distribution!
Alex Ferrari, director of 'This is Meg' and 'On the Corner of Ego & Desire' chats to Giles Alderson (The Dare) in his home in LA about how you can distribute your film and make money from it.
They chat about the Distribber debacle, the Facebook group set up from it to help filmmakers and the best way to distribute your indie film.
They also go into detail about when distribution should be talked about when making a film, how you need a niche and how you can actually make money from your indie film.
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WATCH Winter Ridge (OUT NOW) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Winter-Ridge-Matt-Hookings/dp/B07V7YTX44/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=winter+ridge&qid=1572912553&s=instant-video&sr=1-1
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Tuesday Apr 14, 2020
Tuesday Apr 14, 2020
Giles Alderson (The Dare) had a chat during isolation with Ravers director Bernhard Pucher about how he came to make his second feature film.
They chat about his brilliant fun comedy horror film Ravers and delve into why Bernhard became a director. What his journey was to his first feature film 'Betsy & Lennard' and how he raised finance for both films!
They also talk about tattoos, great films form 1999, American accents, great VFX, stunts and why you should always 'stick the landing'
WATCH RAVERS here https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ravers
RAVERS trailer
Follow Berhard @BerhardPucher on INSTA or Twitter
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The next Make Your Film online summit will be on Mon 20th April. 6pm (GMT) The first announced guest are A Quiet Place screenwriters Beck and Woods, Scott Beck and Bryan Woods also co wrote and directed Haunt and Nightlife. Grab your pay what you can tickets here: https://bit.ly/2XpS9kQ
Friday Apr 10, 2020
Friday Apr 10, 2020
Part 2 of our Make Your Film on line summit is with award winning producers Phin Glynn & Jack Binder who join Giles Alderson (The Dare ) and Dom Lenoir (Winter Ridge) to talk about surviving the Corona Virus as filmmakers and how you can prepare you projects.
Phin discusses Pitch decks and vision packs and why you should make them. How investors might be feeling now and the best way to approach them at the moment and working with directors and screenwriters and finding projects that you truly believe in .
Jack tries to keep us motivated and to work on your scripts and make them ready. "The Script the Script and nothing but the script". We talk about how to know when our scripts are ready and how do deal with notes. Working with directors and actors as a producer . How to get cast on. Working with junior agents. Know the costs of your money and what I could make it for.
Phin Glynn is a producer of feature films such as 'You Me and Him' starring David Tennant, Killers Retreat, Waiting for Anya, The Intruder and End Of Term and most recently Doorman with Ruby Rose and Jean Reno.
Our final guest is Major Hollywood Studio, Indie Film & TV Producer Jack Binder, whose Producer Credits include: First Reformed Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried, Paul Schrader [OSCAR® NOMINATED BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY]| A24, The Upside of Anger Kevin Costner, Joan Allen | New Line Cinema, Reign Over Me starring Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle, Liv Tyler & Donald Sutherland | Columbia Pictures, Man About Town Ben Affleck and John Cleese | Lionsgate, The Mind of the Married Man | HBO Original Series amongst others Starring Colin Firth, Alan Rickman, Rebecca Romijn, Bill Paxton, Diane Lane. Jack also runs www.filmbudget.com
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The next Make Your Film online summit will be on Mon 2oth April. 6pm (GMT) The first announced guest are A Quiet Place screenwriters Beck and Woods, Scott Beck and Bryan Woods also co wrote and directed Haunt and Nightlife. Grab your pay what you can tickets here: https://bit.ly/2XpS9kQ
The Dare has now been released in USA & Canada - Watch The Dare here: apple.co/32fSWox
WATCH The Dare trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5aZVm2drjY
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WATCH Winter Ridge (OUT NOW) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Winter-Ridge-Matt-Hookings/dp/B07V7YTX44/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=winter+ridge&qid=1572912553&s=instant-video&sr=1-1
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Tuesday Apr 07, 2020
Tuesday Apr 07, 2020
Scripts and development for filmmakers - This is Part 1 of our Make Your Film online summit event where Giles Alderson (The Dare) and Dom Lenoir (Winter Ridge) chat with their special guests and go in-depth about how to survive during Covid 19 and get your scripts and projects ready for when we can get back on set again!
Our first guest is the very talented screenwriter Krysty Wilson–Cairns. Not only has she just recently been nominated for an Oscar for '1917' but also WON an BAFTA for the same film which she co-wrote with director Same Mendes. Her latest feature is 'Last Night on Soho' co-written with filmmaking legend Edgar Wright.
We chat about how to deal with the issues we face today and give some helpful tricks and tips around this, how to work with award winning directors, producers and editors, how an agent can help you and some great editing and scriiptwriting techniques as well as getting some questions from the Make Your Film attendees, asked and moderated by Robbie McKane.
Part 2 will be released on Friday. SO do join us and our guests, award winning producers Phin Glynn, (Mad to Be Normal, You Me and Him starring David Tennant, Killers Retreat, Waiting for Anya, The Intruder and End Of Term and most recently Doorman with Ruby Rose and Jean Reno) and Our final guest is Major Hollywood Studio, Indie Film & TV Producer Jack Binder, whose Producer Credits include: First Reformed Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried, Paul Schrader [OSCAR® NOMINATED BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY]| A24, The Upside of Anger Kevin Costner, Joan Allen | New Line Cinema, Reign Over Me starring Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle, Liv Tyler & Donald Sutherland | Columbia Pictures, Man About Town Ben Affleck and John Cleese | Lionsgate, The Mind of the Married Man | HBO Original Series amongst others Starring Colin Firth, Alan Rickman, Rebecca Romijn, Bill Paxton, Diane Lane. Jack also runs www.filmbudget.com
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The Dare has now been released in USA & Canada - Watch The Dare here: apple.co/32fSWox
WATCH The Dare trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5aZVm2drjY
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WATCH Winter Ridge (OUT NOW) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Winter-Ridge-Matt-Hookings/dp/B07V7YTX44/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=winter+ridge&qid=1572912553&s=instant-video&sr=1-1
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