The Filmmakers Podcast

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CASTING NAMED TALENT IN YOUR FILMS & MAKING SHORTS with Nev Pierce and Jim Page Apr 24, 2018

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Director Neville Pierce and editor Jim Page chat about Nev's newly released directed short films Bricks, Ghosted and Lock In, all starring well known names including Jason Flemyng, Alice Lowe and Ray Panthaki to name a few and collaborating with Jim who edited them all.

We discuss Nev's writing for Empire Magazine (where he's a contributing editor) and learning from watching David Fincher on set with his actors while interviewing him for Total Film and after interviewing Jack Nicholson thinking can it get better than this, decided to make the leap to being a filmmaker himself. Fincher read one of his scripts and liked it and that is surely worthy of making the switch.We also discuss how important it is to have rapport with your editor who can be "a less pressured second director", Getting named cast attached to your shorts and raising finance.

The excellent shorts are available to watch here: vimeo.com/nevillepierce

Follow the boys on Twitter here: @nevpierce @iamjimpage @filmmakerspod @gilesalderson @cjamesdirect @thedaremovie

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PRODUCING BAFTA NOMINATED 'GOD’S OWN COUNTRY' with Jack Tarling Jan 30, 2018

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Jack Tarling, producer of this years BAFTA nominated and BIFA winning excellent British film God’s Own Country sits down with Giles Alderson (The Dare) and Christian James (Fanged Up) to chat making the film, How they got the money. Casting. Awards, How the BFI were involved and his next film Await Further Instructions.

Buy God’s Own Country here: https://store.hmv.com/film-tv/dvd/god-s-own-country

or https://itunes.apple.com/gb/movie/gods-own-country-2017/id1278288165

Follow Jack @ShudderFilms www.shudderfilms.co.uk – Follow God’s Own Country on Twitter here @gocfilmFollow the Podcast www.thefilmmakerspodcast.com Twitter: @filmmakerspod @gilesalderson @Cjamesdirect @TheDareMovie @FangedUpFilm

Recorded at DirectorsUK

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NEVER GIVE UP! PART 2 OF HOW A BLOCKBUSTER TAX SCAM DIDN’T STOP FILMMAKER PAUL KNIGHT Jan 25, 2018

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The 2nd Part of the in-depth look into A Landscape of Lies feature film which was the subject of a £19.6M tax fraud that has risen from the flames to be released 7 years later…Unbeknownst to Director Paul Knight, who has proved his innocence in court, of the scam that would send the producers to jail for 20 years while he was trying to make his low budget feature has now re cut the film and prepared it for release.

Paul chats with Giles Alderson (The Dare) and Christian James (Fanged Up) about what happened during the trail, How he was blackballed by the industry and had to work under a different name. How he got the film back, learnt to edit, sound mix and grade by using Adobe’s free 30 day trial and watching YouTube videos, How Lance Warlock wrote the music for free and after a successful, award winning festival run his film will be available to be seen by the world in MARCH 2018.

This a wonderful, insight, warts and all account of a horror story that all filmmakers fear but ultimately was a success.

A Landscape of Lies film will be available from March 2018

Now he is filming his next feature 24LittleHours with many of the same acting talent involved.

Follow Paul Knight here: @Lndnknts @ALOLMOVIE @24Littlehours

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Recorded at Just Voices Studio www.justvoicesagency.com

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Ep 31 THE INSIDE STORY OF HOW A BLOCKBUSTER TAX SCAM WOULDN’T STOP FILMMAKER Paul Knight – LANDSCAPE OF LIES – Pt 1 Jan 23, 2018

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A in-depth look into A Landscape of Lies feature film which was the subject of a £19.6M tax fraud that has risen from the flames to be released 7 years later..Unbeknownst to Director Paul Knight, who has proved his innocence in court, of the scam that would send the producers to jail for 20 years while he was trying to make his low budget feature has now re cut the film and prepared it for release.

Paul chats with Giles Alderson (The Dare) and Christian James (Fanged Up) about the journey, the fraud and the jail time the ‘exec producers’ received and his amazing tenacity to get his film seen by the world.

This a wonderful, insight, warts and all account of a horror story that all filmmakers fear.

The film will be available from March 2018

Follow Paul Knight here: @Lndnknts

Follow the Filmmakers Podcast here: www.thefilmmakerspodcast.com Twitter @filmmakerspod @gilesalderson @CJamesdirect

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‘TWO DOWN’ SPECIAL Pt2 with Tori & Matthew Butler-Hart, Giles Alderson & Christian James Jan 18, 2018

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Part Two of our chat with Fizz & Ginger’s film-making duo Matthew & Tori Butler-Hart who chat with hosts Giles Alderson (The Dare) & Christian James (Fanged Up) how they made their latest feature film The Isle as well as their newly released feature Two Down. They chat about how vital it is to create your own work and how important it is to have the right team around you, Paying cast and crew, Learning Wing Chung, Working together as a husband and wife team. What they learned from their first feature and brought in to the second and how they raised the money to make their films.

TWO DOWN is OUT NOW & can be bought here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0779MBMSF/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_x_sUvxAb53YRG5X

Follow Fizz and Ginger’s Journey here: www.fizzandgingerproductions.comTwitter @gilesAlderson @TheDareMovie @Cjamesdirect @MBHDirector @ToriButler-Hart

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Making a MICRO budget indie film - TWO DOWN Part 1 with Matthew & Tori Butler-Hart Jan 15, 2018

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Fizz and Gingers husband and wife team Matthew and Tori Butler-Hart join Giles Alderson (The Dare) and Christian James (Fanged Up) to chat film-making and their new film Two Down.

There was so much wonderful film-making tips and fun insights we decided to split the podcast into TWO parts.

Part Two will be out on Friday

For now LISTEN in to how Matt became friends with Ian McKellen, got him to star in Fizz and Ginger’s first award winning short film E’Gad Zombies. Their first attempt to make a feature film, The Curse of The Buxom Strumpet, a period zombie film and how acting to directing can be liberating plus the start of their just released feature film Two Down.

A wonderful insightful and fun podcast all about film-making and it’s trials and tribulations.

#MakeYourFilmIn2018

TWO DOWN is OUT NOW buy it here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0779MBMSF/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_x_sUvxAb53YRG5X

Follow Fizz and Ginger’s Journey here: www.fizzandgingerfillms.co.uk

Twitter @gilesAlderson @TheDareMovie @Cjdirect @MBHDirector @ToriButler-Hart

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HOW TO MAKE A £1K PERIOD FEATURE FILM with filmmakers George Popov & Harry Young Jan 09, 2018

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A wonderful in-depth look at how to make a indie feature film for £1k. A period civil war feature no less.

Director George Popov & cinematographer Harry Young join hosts Giles Alderson (The Dare) & Andrew Rodger (World of Darkness) to chat how they actually did it on the feature film Hex.

Links:

Twitter: @HexFilmUK @GeorgePopov @gilesalderson @35mmdop

Buy the film here: http://amzn.eu/4Fg5TQg

Recorded at Just Voices Studio in London

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SIX IMPORTANT LESSONS WE LEARNT MAKING OUR FEATURE FILMS Jan 01, 2018

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SIX IMPORTANT LESSONS TO KNOW WHEN MAKING YOUR FEATURE FILM

Director Giles Alderson (The Dare), Producer and Actor Dan Richardson (Retribution) and Cinematographer Andrew Rodger (World of Darkness) chat in depth about the 6 most important lessons they learnt while making their feature films.

With some excellent tips for first time directors to established feature film veterans from not endangering your crew, planning your days to accepting your mistakes and leadership on set.

Make 2018 the year you make your feature film.

Follow the podcast at www.thefilmmakerspodcast.comTwitter @filmmakerspod @gilesalderson @dan710ths @35mmdopwww.directedbygiles.comwww.35mmdop.com

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Finding your tribe, raising money & making indie film WINTER RIDGE with Dom Lenoir and Matt Hookings Dec 25, 2017

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Filmmakers Matt Hookings and Dom Lenoir join director Giles Alderson to chat film-making, finding your tribe, raising money, collaborating, casting, having passion and persistence, taking advice, aiming as high as you can and their new indie film Winter Ridge.

Links:www.thefilmmakerspodcast.comTwitter: @filmmakerspod

Dom Lenoir Twitter @DirDomLenoiMatt Hookings Twitter @MatthookingsFollow the progress of Winter Ridge at www.camelot-films.co.uk

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CROWDSOURCING & HOW TO GET NOTICED AS A FILMMAKER with Stage 32's Rich Botto Dec 18, 2017

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Rich Botto aka RB joins Giles Alderson on The Filmmakers Podcast to chat film-making, screenwriting and crowdsourcing your film, which means building your tribe, your army, your boots on the ground essentially one of the most important factors of being a filmmaker, your fans. We discuss how to bring value to a project, how to stand out form the crowd, what makes a good low budget indie and his book Crowdsourcing for Filmmakers.RB is the Founder and CEO of Stage 32 (www.stage32.com), the world’s largest social media site and educational hub for film, television and theater creatives.

Buy RB’s excellent book CROWDSOURCING FOR FILMMAKERS HERE:http://crowdsourcingforfilmmakers.com/Follow Rich Botto here: Twitter @RBwalksintoabar @stage32 www.stage32.com

Follow Giles Alderson here: Twitter @GilesAldersonwww.directedbygiles.com

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