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 Mar 31, 2020
Tuesday Mar 31, 2020
Chilling sci fi satire on this week's episode with an interview with Vivarium director Lorcan Finnegan, appropriately atmospheric for isolated viewing.
Giles and Robbie open the pod with news on the latest MakeYourFilm online summit event amid the lockdown, followed by Robbie's interview with the writer/director.
Lorcan discusses his roots in graphic design, beginnings in TV, commercials and webisodes before charting his route into film with award-winning short Foxes, which gave him the kudos to launce two features, his first film Without Name and the much longer gestating Vivarium, out now on demand.
For the more analytical we talk colour theory and set design, and for producers taking notes we talk finance, as Lorcan reveals the story of how the film came together from an impressive array of European funding bodies.
We also discuss casting the leads, Imogen and Jesse, and how folklore and parable play into the film's story.
Watch Vivarium here: https://www.amazon.com/Vivarium-Imogen-Poots/dp/B0868SXKPZ
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Tuesday Mar 24, 2020
Tuesday Mar 24, 2020
This week husband and wife team Paul and Diane Knight stop by to chat with Giles Alderson (The Dare) ad Ian Sharp (The Marker) about making their latest movie '24 Little Hours' for just 10k in 8 Days!
A real treat for filmmakers as returning favourite Paul Knight continues his chat from episodes 31 & 32 where he talked very openly about the issue he had when his film Landscape of Lies was involved in a £19.6M tax scam and hoe he over came it and now he is back with his wife and fellow producer Diane Knight to talk about how they made a feature film in 8 days with just 10k to play with.
They talk about their process, their days to day on set, casting, asking for favours, getting the film distributed and released to the world.
Watch 24 Little Hours here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/24-Hours-London-Fiona-Skinner/dp/B0829GNHZ6/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1YS7JS03AM4TH&dchild=1&keywords=24+hours+in+london&qid=1585019910&s=instant-video&sprefix=24+lhours+in+London%2Cinstant-video%2C211&sr=1-1&swrs=42EC4D5742C2C3B8DAFD31DBFB13ABEB
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Listen to ep 85 with Ian Sharp here: http://thefilmmakerspodcast.com/ep-85-how-to-produce-indie-films-and-finance-films-with-ian-sharp-and-hosts-giles-alderson-andrew-rodger/
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Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
This week we are joined by director Julian Jarrold who talks about his new film Sulphur and White starring Mark Stanley, Anna Friel and Emily Beecham which is OUT NOW
Giles' film The Dare has just been released in the US and Canada and he tells you some tips he learnt in LA and Dom kills off some of his Bucket List.
Julian tells us about working on The Crown, where he had just come from the set, casting Sulphur and White, Developing a script based on true events with the real people.
Directing modern TV vs directing indie films, working with producers, adapting an existing script, being sensitive around real life events and dramatic backstories.
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Tuesday Mar 10, 2020
Tuesday Mar 10, 2020
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Tuesday Mar 03, 2020
Tuesday Mar 03, 2020
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Tuesday Feb 25, 2020
Tuesday Feb 25, 2020
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Friday Feb 21, 2020
Friday Feb 21, 2020
For our 150th BONUS episode we sat down with acclaimed writer and director Alejandro Landes to talk about how he made his award winning feature, the thought provoking, unsettling look at human nature in the stunning looking survivalist saga 'MONOS'! (OUT NOW)
He talks to Giles Alderson (The Dare) about how he wrote the movie, raised finance and even started shooting before he had all the money, How he cast and directed the kids, how he prepped MONOS and how it felt to win big at Sundance.
WATCH 'MONOS' here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Monos-Blu-Ray-Alejandro-Landes/dp/B07ZQN9Y1W
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Tuesday Feb 18, 2020
Tuesday Feb 18, 2020
On this episode 149 of The Filmmakers Podcast Giles Alderson ('The Dare') had a natter with director and stunt choreographer Nick Powell about working with Nicolas Cage and his latest film Primal (OUT NOW)
We chat how Nick started out as an actor and was offered a role at The National Theatre but couldn’t afford it so started doing stunts through his love of martial arts and started to get films and TV work such as Batman and British TV and from there started to direct 2nd unit and forge a great career as a stunt choreographer on films such as Three Musketeers, X-Men Last Stand, Cinderella Man, 28 Days Later and Bourne Identity to name a few.
Then after 8 or 9years he turned stunt directing work down in the hope his feature films would happen.
We talk about why movies fall apart. Why agents can’t be difficult to get through, how even with Nicolas Cage attached it still doesn’t mean your film can happen.
Working with Tom Cruise on The Last Samurai and training him and Russell Crowe and what goes into those huge films.
Nick gives us some great tips on working with actors and how sometimes you have to say no and tells us not to believe everything we hear from the producers and how you should go in with an open mind and do the best you can .
We also talk PRIMAL, shooting stunt sequences, working with animals and cgi ....
And working with Nic Cage
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Tuesday Feb 11, 2020
Tuesday Feb 11, 2020
Twice Oscar nominated screenwriter & director Agnieszka Holland joins Giles Alderson (The Dare) to talk about her film-making journey and her latest film Mr Jones (OUT NOW in cinema and on demand)
She talks about how she writes her screenplays, How she works with actors, the process of being on set and working with actors and the difference between TV directing (The Wire, House of Cards) and film directing (Europe, Europe, In Darkness).
PLUS she goes in depth on making the brilliant award winning film Mr. Jones starring James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Mawle and Peter Skarsgard
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Tuesday Feb 04, 2020
Tuesday Feb 04, 2020
Screenwriter and director Yaron Zilberman joins Giles Alderson to chat about his latest feature film Incitement.
We chat how he started making documentaries and learnt that he wanted to make movies for the rest of his life. And how he learned to raise money for his films .
We talk about his process as a screenwriter and working with acting legends Philip Seymour Hoffman and Christopher Walken on his Hollywood debut which he wrote and directed called 'A Late Quartet' and we talk about how he made the political thriller set in the Middle East about the real life story of the Assassination of the Israeli prime minister called 'Incitement' which is released in select cinemas in America this week.
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Incitement - For the first time on screen, and based on true events, acclaimed writer-director Yaron Zilberman Incitement chronicles the disturbing descent of a promising law student to a delusional ultranationalist obsessed with murdering his country’s leader, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
Theaters/Cinemas: Los Angeles (Feb 7) LAEMMLE ROYAL, LAEMMLE TOWN CENTER New Jersey (Feb 7) Bow Tie Cinemas Clairidge Cinemas (Montclair NJ), Brielle Cinemas, Montgomery Cinemas (Skillman NJ) New York (Jan 31) THE LANDMARK AT 57 WEST , ANGELIKA FILM CENTER, KEW GARDENS CINEMAS
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