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

Natalie Metzger is on a hot streak! She's produced recent favs Thunder Road and Greener Grass, she's finishing up a studio film, and headed into her next indie. How do you have a sustainable career making passion projects with your friends? Listen to find out.  Contribute to the Just Shoot It Patreon and help support the show:  www.patreon.com/JustShootItPod For more episodes visit  www. J...

Join us for our live Halloween episode with Drew & Brett Pierce (the Wretched), Roxy Shih (Painkillers, the Tribe, Dark Web) & Dan Casey (Kin, Fast 9) for a lively conversation about making genre movies.  This episode is sponsored by Shot Lister, the better way to make your day. To learn more about this awesome app that does the hard work of managing and scheduling a shot list for you, go...

Carlyn Hudson is back to answer listener questions and catch up.  This episode is sponsored by Shot Lister, the better way to make your day. To learn more about this awesome app that does the hard work of managing and scheduling a shot list for you, go to  https://shotlister.com/ Contribute to the Just Shoot It Patreon and help support the show:  www.patreon.com/JustShootItPod As always, follow @...

Check out our bonus episode of Just Shoot It this week with our pals from Making Movies is Hard.  And check out Alrik's crowd funding campaign here:  https://www.seedandspark.com/fund/thealternate#story Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kimmy Gatewood, one of the beat down biddies from GLOW is here to talk about her directing career.  This episode is sponsored by Shot Lister, the better way to make your day. To learn more about this awesome app that does the hard work of managing and scheduling a shot list for you, go to  https://shotlister.com/ Get live show tickets here: JustShootItpod.com/Live Contribute to the Just Shoot It P...

You'll recognize Lily Mariye from her long running stint on ER, but she's moved behind the camera to do your favorite network shows as well. Her credits include How to Get Away with Murder, The Terror, MacGuyver, NCIS: LA, Criminal Minds, Nashville and probably a few more shows since this episode recorded. She's so smart, so quick and so fun. This was an episode PACKED with nuggets for...

Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas is a producer, writer, ex-agent, chick-flick-advocate and all around badass. She tells the story of how she brought the hit movie Hustlers to audiences despite hearing "no" all over hollywood, the time she got her highschool boyfriend on CHiPs, and how the term "chick flick" is a compliment of the highest order. Oren and I (Matt) take a trip over to Elaine&#...

Joseph Cross has been acting for over 20 years, and has been directed by some of the greatest, most iconic directors of all time. We're talking Steven Spielberg, Gus Van Sant, Clint Eastwood, and David Fincher. So what did he learn from these directors, and how did he use that experience when directing his first feature?  And how did Audrey Tommassini, a first time producer step up to the plat...

In our third installment of our actors intensive we sit down with Jennette McCurdy. You remember her from her 100+ episodes of TV on Nickelodeon on Sam & Cat and iCarly and her Netflix show Between. Since starting acting as a teenager, she's grown up in front of the camera, and now she's ready to take the reins, and direct.  This episode is sponsored by Shot Lister, the better way to m...

Our Actor Series continues with Ben Giroux... a comedy actor, director, writer, and voiceover artist extraordinaire! He's acted in hundreds of episodes of primetime TV (Hart of Dixie, House, 2 Broke Girls, Sam and Cat) and now he is directing TV for networks like TBS and CW. He is truly a self-made man, and he tells us how balancing a career in acting and directing have immensely complemented...

Audrey Moore is an accomplished actor and podcaster, who's dedicated herself to the education of actors. She gives us the inside scoop on how actors perceive and approach auditioning, their time on set, and much more. This kicks episode kicks off our actors intensive series. Stay tuned for more entrepreneurial actors who've taken their careers into their own hands. Learn what it's like...

Sam Reich is back to talk about launching his new streaming service Dropout. Its a deep conversation about the nature of success, what it means to be an artist, and redefining what you want out of both of those things. I (Matt) always love talking to Sam, as he's a person who's been on the forefront of digital comedy since the beginning, and is so intelligent and thoughtful on the topic. T...

Radio Silence, better known as Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett, Justin Martinez and Chad Villella, are the filmmaking collective behind the new film  Ready or Not,  out in theaters now. What does it take to tackled your first studio feature? How do they strike a balance of horror, comedy, satire and drama? How do you even make a movie with three creatives? Hear the story of how three buddies...

We lost Anton Yelchin too young, but the new documentary Love, Antosha gives us an intimate look inside the story, process and promise of a young artist. Producer and friend Drake Doremus and longtime editor turned director Garret Price join us to talk about the process of making a documentary of found footage and interview. What are the challenges in making a film like this, in this way? And how...

Rebecca Green is an accomplished producer (It Follows, I'll See You In My Dreams, And Then I Go) who runs a site called Dear Producer dedicated to teaching you what it takes to become an awesome producer. She's travelled the world giving workshops and mentoring producers for the likes of Film Independent and Sundance... and now she's on our show! So strap in for a deep dive on how to b...

We're back with another live panel event. It was an awesome night filled with insight from producers Liz Cardenas (A Ghost Story, Never Goin' Back) Jana Winternitz (Internet Famous, The Thinning, Funny Story) and Mary Pat Bentel (Buster's Mal Heart, Austin Found, Amateur Night, This Close). Stay tuned for a Q & A later this week.  Thanks to Rita House for hosting!  This episode is...

Jeff Chan and Andrew Rhymer are childhood friends, turned college friends, turned writing partners, turned ex-writing partners, turned writing and directing partners back again. It's our first directing duo episode, and it's filled with back story and details the long road it took to get their feature Plus One into theaters. It's an inspiring story of two friends who stuck together to...

Zane Rubin has a voice unto herself. Maybe that's because she mostly writes, directs and stars in her series for places like Comedy Central and Superdeluxe, but there's something else to it. In our interview with Zane we talk about how she came to become a serious filmmaker early in life, how she's overcome being rejected by tons of festivals, and found a group of incredible actors to...

In anticipation of our live show, July 21st with indie producers  Liz Cardenas, ( A Ghost Story, Never Going Back)  Mary Pat Bentel  (Midnight Swim, Austin Found, Amature Night) and   Jana Winternitz  (Funny Story, The Thinning)  we're getting the word out and giving people a little back story about our panel, and event. Think of it as your pre-game before the big night.  See you there, and ge...

  Don Cherel has spent his life directing huge commercial campaigns for Geico... but he's also a musician, DP, second unit director on features and family man. How does he juggle it all without living in Los Angeles? Don's a maverick, so get ready for a scatalogical, hilarious interview.    Visit Plotdevices. Co to get your very own story clock workbook and other awesome filmmaking tools....

This week we have on Drea Clark, producer and programmer extraordinaire! For thirteen years she was the Head of Feature Programming at Slamdance, and now she programs for Sundance. Today she talks about the many do's and don't's of applying to these top festivals, as well as how years of festival experience has helped her pick projects to produce. If you like what you hear in this epis...

Awesome casting directors Amanda Lenker Doyle and Chrissy Fiorilli sit down to talk about the process of casting. We cover everything from indie films to big budget commercials. It's a fun one, filled with war stories, big tangents, and soaked with practical advice direct from these two awesome casting directors. Check out all their work here:  www.dfcasting.com/ Visit Plotdevices. Co to get y...

Charlie Tyrell stops by this week to talk about the making of his doc shorts,  My Dead Dad's Porno Tapes  (Sundance, Vimeo Staff Pick) and  Broken Orchestra for Topic.com. Charlie's work is stunningly visual and he brings mixed media, animation, found footage, and affecting interviews to his work. He is also an exceptionally skilled collaborator and tells us about the team of experts he br...

When Rightor Doyle was a young New York actor he had no idea his stint as a bodyguard for a dominatrix would eventually inspire his own hit Netflix show. He's taken all his experience as a working actor (notably as Nick on Barry) and writer, and poured it into his latest work, Bonding. As writer and director, we talk about his decision to step behind the camera, and how he managed to elevate a...

Seth Worley is a writer/director of short films and branded content for clients like JJ Abram's Bad Robot, Red Giant, Film Riot, and Steve Taylor. He is also the cofounder of Plot Devices, and he makes killer VFX tutorial videos framed by story. Strap in for a great episode on VFX tutorials, balancing being a filmmaker with marketing tools, and the story of why he cofounded Plot Devices.  This...