Making Movies Is Hard!!! A Podcast For Independent Filmmakers | Filmmaking | Producing | Screenwriting | Directing | Features

So you've got a script and all you need is the money to shoot it. Great! But where do you start? This week, producer Yumee Jang sits down to answer all our questions about where independent financing comes from including how to find and talk to investors

Documentarian Scott Kirschenbaum joins us this week to talk about his life as a documentary filmmaker, how he goes about finding stories that will change his life and how he captured a woman giving brith in his newest film 'Of Woman Born'.

Rick Bosner joins us to talk about how he makes a living as a filmmaker including work as a line producer on Fruitvale Station and Executive Producer on Other People. And he explains why you don't have to be in LA to do it.

This week we have filmmaker extraordinaire Rob Richert on the show to give us a nice overview of his career on his filmmaker, covering film festivals, directing philosophies and being ready to pivot your story based on casting.

Timothy is back from his shoot in Chile and Alrik just wrapped his four day documentary style shoot. We wing a conversation about what's next for our feature films and share some inspiration from Gareth Edwards SXSW Film Keynote speech.

Timothy is in Santiago Chile shooting a commercial and Alrik is working on a four day doc style shoot, so the guys talk about how their prep is going and how it kind of sucks that they have both been too busy to work on their creative projects.

Timothy and Alrik decompress from their experience recording the crossover episode with the Just Shoot It Podcast.

A crossover episode with fellow filmmaking podcasters, Matt Enlow and Oren Kaplan of the Just Shoot It Podcast! We talk about our lives as directors but really quickly get into a discussion of why we aren't in LA. Enjoy!

We continue where we left off last week, talking about the shoot we're working on together, Alrik as Producer and Timothy as Director. This week we walk you through the tech scout, the last week of prep and the shoot itself.

How do you prep a production? Where do you start? This week, Alrik and Timothy describe the process of prepping a music video that Timothy is directing and Alrik is producing.

Justin Plummer III and Martin Strauss are two San Francisco Bay Area directors who get paid to direct full time. They talk with us about how they got started and what it's like to sign with a big time LA commercial production company.

This week we hear how Liz Manashil is making her movies on a microbudget, finding name actors, getting distribution and sustaining her career as a filmmaker.

We shoot the breeze this week with a few topics including La La Land, tax season, getting rejected from film festivals and a Tweet from Jay Duplass!

Ryan Thomas started his career as a grip and gaffer in San Francisco, but when the non-union reality show he was working on turned union, Ryan was able to join the local 728 and make the move to LA to level up his career as a Director of Photography.

What makes for a satisfying ending to a movie? And how the hell do you get a name actor attached to your movie when you don't have an agent or a manager?

We explore two distribution models in this episode. Filmmaker Isaac Pingree released his first feature "Day of Vengeance" through a traditional distributor but with his latest film "The Fred Eaglesmith Traveling Steam Show" he's going direct to the fans

Griffin Hammond made a 33-minute documentary about Sriracha that he self-distributed and made money. That's right. Real money. We follow his journey to success from Facebook and Kickstarter all the way to Amazon Prime.

Happy New Year everyone! We distill our entire year of experience into one awesome episode, including our first listener call in from Alex Kellerman who challenges us on the idea of "breaking in."

Over the last two weeks, Alrik pitched his feature script "The Alternate" to producers and managers. We share his results with a discussoin around the experience, the feedback, and we even listen to one of the actual pitches

Everyone can make a movie but when it's done, what's the best way to get it out into the world? This week we have filmmaker Lucas Kitchen on the show to talk about his experience working with the aggregator Distribber, how much money his movie brought in