Just Shoot It: A Podcast about Filmmaking, Screenwriting and Directing

We're back again with part two of our Quarantine check-in, rounding out our conversations with Sarah Adina Smith, Matt Pollock, Tim Wilkime and Lily Mariye. If you missed the first half of our conversation, check out episode 212!  Contribute to the Just Shoot It Patreon and help support the show:  www.patreon.com/JustShootItPod For more episodes visit  www. JustShootitPodcast.com Show your sup...

Matt and Oren zoom over to check in with some of our fav past guests to check in, and learn how to better cope and thrive during Quarantine. Tune in tomorrow for part 2!  Contribute to the Just Shoot It Patreon and help support the show:  www.patreon.com/JustShootItPod For more episodes visit  www. JustShootitPodcast.com Show your support: rate and review us on iTunes.  apple.co/2fl9ojy See who ar...

Picking the right cinematographer for your project can be hard (just like making movies). Liz Manashil and Alrik Bursell, our pals from the podcast Making Movies Is Hard to talk about Alrik's film The Alternate, and the relationship director's have with DPS.  Check out Matt's short A Gray One (finally)  https://vimeo.com/305560482 Contribute to the Just Shoot It Patreon and help suppor...

Alex Ferrari, filmmaker/podcaster/hustler extraordinaire is back on the podcast to talk about his new book, Rise of the Filmtrepreneur.  We get into it. It's a spirited discussion with some awesome takeaways.  Check out Matt's short A Gray One (finally) https://vimeo.com/305560482 Contribute to the Just Shoot It Patreon and help support the show:  www.patreon.com/JustShootItPod For more ep...

Maureen Bharaoocha's film Golden Arm was set to premiere at the SXSW film festival before fears of the Coronavirus outbreak forced programmers to cancel the event. We talk with Maureen about what that means for her film, her career, and how she's become an advocate for filmmakers all over the world who've seen their festival premiers postponed due to the outbreak.  Contribute to the Ju...

Jessie Kahnweiler is a writer, director and sometimes actor who's taken two different projects to Sundance. She's a hilarious, indomitable filmmaker filled with insight and her own unique POV.  Contribute to the Just Shoot It Patreon and help support the show:  www.patreon.com/JustShootItPod For more episodes visit  www. JustShootitPodcast.com Show your support: rate and review us on iTune...

Mickey Finnegan joins us to talk about his epic career as a music video director, and how he continues to hustle.  Contribute to the Just Shoot It Patreon and help support the show:  www.patreon.com/JustShootItPod For more episodes visit  www. JustShootitPodcast.com Show your support: rate and review us on iTunes.  apple.co/2fl9ojy See who are guests are a week early on our instagram @ JustshootIt...

As the corona virus rears its head here in Los Angeles, Oren and Matt talk about the nature of sick days as freelancers.  Unpaid Endorsements: Oren: An app called epocrates. It tells you what medications you can take together. Matt: The movie Down Hill. Watch the original (Force Majeure) and the American re- make  The adult swim show Joe Pera Talks With You Contribute to the Just Shoot It Patreon...

Micheal Parks Randa is half the directing duo behind the new musical Best Summer Ever, premiering at this year's SXSW. The film is filled with fun, great musical numbers, authenticity and features a fully integrated cast and crew of people with and without disabilities. Learn how this group of collaborators evolved a community of likeminded people into a full blown feature film.  Contribute to...

Becky Morrison founded her production company The Light with the intention of reevaluating and reinventing the way we approach production. We dive on the philosophy she's developed behind her company, and the practical ways she's reforming the system.  Contribute to the Just Shoot It Patreon and help support the show:  www.patreon.com/JustShootItPod For more episodes visit  www. JustShooti...

Oren and guest host Carlyn Hudson sit down with commercial director Tony Franklin to hear how a Minnesota transplant to LA got dozens of meetings with production companies that lead to commercial work. Fascinating. Contribute to the Just Shoot It Patreon and help support the show:  www.patreon.com/JustShootItPod For more episodes visit  www. JustShootitPodcast.com Show your support: rate and revie...

Matt and Oren talk about a listener question regarding turning Vimeo Staff Picks into actual jobs, setting specific goals, and making tough decisions regarding which job to take. Lots of disagreeing between Matt and Oren! Contribute to the Just Shoot It Patreon and help support the show:  www.patreon.com/JustShootItPod For more episodes visit  www. JustShootitPodcast.com Show your support: rate an...

Matt and Oren dive into the mailbag to answer your pressing listener questions. Do you need a resume? What if there are gaps? What's the difference between a job and a gig? What sort of gear do you need to start practicing? We dig in, so get ready!  Contribute to the Just Shoot It Patreon and help support the show:  www.patreon.com/JustShootItPod For more episodes visit  www. JustShootitPodcas...

Matt and Oren look back on the last 100 episodes of Just Shoot It to recount all the awesome things they've learned. Check it out to learn about all the best tips from those episodes. We all know the cliff's notes is better than reading the book, so apologies if you listened to eps 100-200, as you've clearly wasted your time.  Contribute to the Just Shoot It Patreon and help support th...

Joe Hardesty has sky rocketed from PA picking up gear at Oren's apartment to the Producer of shows like Dead to Me, American Vandal and No Activity. How did he do it? It definitely has something to do with working with Matt.    Unpaid Endorsements:   Joe - Starbucks Reserve   Matt - Netflix show "The Circle"         - "The Marriage Story" score is a great orchestral soundtrack...

Matt and Oren sit down with WeFunder's Jonny Price to talk about what crowd equity is, and how it applies to filmmakers. Matt is in the middle of a feature partially funded through wefunder, and we thought our listeners would want to get the low-down from the inside on how we raised our investment round.  Visit  https://wefunder.com/what.are.you.doing.new.years  to check out Matt's progres...

Josh Ruben returns to catch up with Oren and I (Matt). Last time we had Josh on the show, he was dreaming of a DIY feature that he'd write, perform in and direct. Now that feature (Scare Me) is on its way to Sundance. We'll leave it to you to connect the dots.    Contribute to the Just Shoot It Patreon and help support the show:  www.patreon.com/JustShootItPod For more episodes visit  www....

Matt and Oren settle in for a few weeks of hibernation, now that the holidays have come and gone, and there's nary a job to book. What should one do with all this free time?  Contribute to the Just Shoot It Patreon and help support the show:  www.patreon.com/JustShootItPod For more episodes visit  www. JustShootitPodcast.com Show your support: rate and review us on iTunes.  apple.co/2fl9ojy Se...

Matt and Oren join directors Roxy Shih, Carlyn Hudson, and Tim Nakashi to chat about the highs and lows of directing in 2019. Lots of insults and a few compliments are hurled. Contribute to the Just Shoot It Patreon and help support the show:  www.patreon.com/JustShootItPod For more episodes visit  www. JustShootitPodcast.com Show your support: rate and review us on iTunes.  apple.co/2fl9ojy See w...

Pals Zach Lipovsky & Adam Stein swing by to talk about their new movie, Freaks. It was a hit on the festival circuit, and now it's out across all platforms. So dig in on this DIY indie scifi hit!  iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/freaks/id1474345487   Google Play store: https://play.google.com/store/movies/details?id=pxQY5GM-7SI.P   Amazon link for the BluRay/DVD: https://www.amaz...

Micah Fitzerman-Blue, co-writer behind the new film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood joins Matt and Oren on the podcast to talk about life as a producer, making TV shows like Transparent, and developing passion projects over the long term.    Contribute to the Just Shoot It Patreon and help support the show:  www.patreon.com/JustShootItPod For more episodes visit  www. JustShootitPodcast.com Sh...

Eric B Fleischman has produced 20+ films and he's barely 30. Under the tutelage of Jason Blum (he was Blumhouse's 4th employee) Eric's career is a testament to learning by doing. He's played all the major festivals, started a handful of companies, and now he's starting his own endeavor and slate. But why genre films? And what makes a good one? We dive in DEEP, and end on his se...

We sit down with manager and co-founder of The Underground, Josh McGuire to figure out just what a manager does, why you might want one, and exactly which barbecue to attend to meet your first.  Contribute to the Just Shoot It Patreon and help support the show:  www.patreon.com/JustShootItPod For more episodes visit  www. JustShootitPodcast.com Show your support: rate and review us on iTunes.  app...

Oren and I are talking shorts this week. We dig on why a working director would want to make one, what the upsides and downsides are, and what sort of strategies you can use to make yours a bit better.  Contribute to the Just Shoot It Patreon and help support the show:  www.patreon.com/JustShootItPod For more episodes visit  www. JustShootitPodcast.com Show your support: rate and review us on iTun...

Liz Shannon Miller is a TV critic who's written for basically everywhere (Variety, Indiewire, Vulture). She's joined us to talk about the way that people who criticize and champion film and TV approach the work. If you've ever read a review and  wondered about the people behind it, this episode is for you.  Contribute to the Just Shoot It Patreon and help support the show:  www.patreon...