Low-Budget Rebels: An Indie Filmmaking Podcast

On this weeks Low-Budget Rebels episode, I sat down with filmmaker Rachel S. Thomas-Medwid to talk about her adventures in indie filmmaking, the problem with squirrels, filmmaking with your family, trying to stay creative during the pandemic, finding your genre, and so much more. Rachel is a wealth of experience, coming from a very unconventional path into filmmaking, and I believe her story is on...

HEYO! I took a week off from podcasting but I'm back now and SUPER excited to get back to work on getting new shows recorded, promoting the podcast, and hopefully making this show a little more interactive. Anyone listening probably know about speakpipe.com/lowbudgetrebels, the site you can go to and leave me audio messages to play on the show! This weeks guest was great. Cameron Fife has not only...

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One of the things I love about this podcast is the variety of filmmakers I can find. Low-budget filmmaking is a diverse topic ranging from people just running and gunning, to folks running kickstarters to just get that extra little bit of cash to help bring their vision to life. I've talked to filmmakers who have been doing this half their lives and people just starting out. This week, I had the p...

Hey everyone, This weeks episode I had the pleasure to chat with Vincente DiSanti about his film Never Hike Alone. We discussed the process of making a fan film, the things you can learn from working in animation, what can go wrong working with old vehicles, tricks we've learned from watching other directors, Hitchcock, and so much more. Make sure to check out his Womp Stomp Films youtube channel!...

This week I had the amazing opportunity to chat with exploitation filmmaker Jeremy Sumrall about why we do what we do. His movie Pickaxe is the type of boobs and blood movie a lot of us grew up on in the 80's and he is continuing to make grindhouse style movies. We discuss everything from how covid could change indie filmmaking and film audiences, to film audio, how we got into the genre we work i...

It's Friday and I'm actually on time to post an episode on Patreon! This week I had the pleasure to sit down and chat with Nathan Ludwig. Nathan is the film festival director of GenreBlast Film Fest, a festival I met many of my past guests at. Because Nathan was a pretty open book and is putting on a fest I truly respect, I thought he would be the perfect guest to chat with about the inner working...

I had no idea what to expect from this podcast with filmmaker and producer B.J. Colangelo. I started following her on twitter a few years ago, and since then she's become one of those people that I truly look forward to seeing tweets from. She has a completely original take on things, especially horror movies - never just being negative to be negative, which she talks about in this episode. We dis...

On this weeks episode, I hopped on Zoom to talk with documentary filmmaker Taylor Morden (for the second time) to talk about his new feature film The Last Blockbuster. We not only talked about his new movies but also chatted about finding talent to be in his movie, looking for what's around you to make a movie about, watching The Net, movies we've watched the most, Terminator and special effects,...

It's amazing how unique each of my guests on Low-Budget Rebels has been. Each one has brought different insight and a different take on what low-budget filmmaking is. This week is definitely not an exception to that. Eric Power is an extremely talented cut out animation filmmaker. He's not only created multiple animation for youtube, many of which have hit viral success, but he's also directed and...

This is a special episode for me. Jeremy Wanek and I have been friends for many years and worked together on more projects than I can even remember. He's one of the hardest working people I've met in the industry and has worn all kinds of hats from editor to camera operator to colorist to vfx artist. He's done it all. Our conversation goes all over the place, as you'd expect a chat between two fri...

I like to use the term "punk rock filmmaker" a lot recently. It's not only a nod to an "edgy" style, but also a nice way to discuss folks who use what they have, break the rules of the process, and do whatever the hell they want to get their movie made. This weeks guest, Jason Zink, embodies this idea of doing whatever you can to get your movie made and then doing whatever you can to get your movi...

It seems like a lot of my episodes of this Low-Budget Rebels podcast start out the same. I ask the guest how they started, they say they picked up a camera when they were 7, and the rest is history. But not this week. Elena Weinberg didn't get into actually directing until later, starting as an actress in Austin, Texas (a place we both have very fond and interesting relationships with) and slippin...

After a week off, I think I've come back with one of the most knowledgeable guests yet. Noam Kroll is known for many things. A jack of all trades in every regard, Noam has not only made multiple feature films and shorts, he's created a reputation as making some of the best LUTs for cameras and editing, film grain packages, the wonderful "Show Don't Tell" podcast, and much more. He's become one of...

This week on Low-Budget Rebels, I'm joined by one of the coolest humans I know, and someone who I might have more in common with than anyone I've ever met. John Hale started making stop-motion movies as a kid (sound familiar?) and taught himself every part of the process of low-budget monster movie making (again, sound familiar?). We talk about his short film The Conduit and struggles that came al...

On this episode of the Low-Budget Rebels Podcast, I sat down with the incredible documentary filmmaker Tommy Avallone to talk about his 3 doc features, his one narrative film, his process coming up with documentary ideas, movies that are hard to watch, filming Santa, talking about Bill Murray, SXSW 2018, distribution, finding the interesting character in any moment of filming, how I got on Rebel W...

A second episode already!?? Yes. Yes it it. I had the pleasure to chat with the extremely fun and energetic Rakefet Abergel. You may know her from Superbad, New Girl, or the Disney Channel - but she has really impressed the horror community with her short films Jax in Love and Boo. On this episode, we discuss the jump from acting to writing to directing, the genre film scene, influences to get int...

On this riveting episode of the Low-Budget Rebels podcast, I sat down with the extremely talented Jaysen Buterin to talk about his award winning feature Kill Giggles. We chat about first experiments with heavy cameras, hoarding props from past movies, our favorite film fest experiences, black and white filmmaking, adapting and going with the flow on a low-budget film, being prepared for the actual...

This is seriously one of my favorite chats I've had. Cape Town, South Africa director and actor Ryan Kruger has an incredibly interesting background and enough insight to make me get off our Zoom conversation and instantly want to start making more art. His movie Fried Barry (starring Gary) is playing On Demand at Fantasia film fest in the coming weeks and looks to be one helluva' weird trip! You...

I've been busy as hell doing contracts, building the Flush audience, finishing up The Good Exorcist for Troma, writing Keith., writing Static Requiem, talking to Strauss about puppets, getting comics made, planning the future, and about a million other things, BUT somewhere in that mess - I've found time to record another podcast! This week, I have the extremely inspiring Michael J Epstein, who I...

This week, I have the amazing John Valley on the show. I met John on Rebel Without A Crew: The Series and we seemed to have a lot in common. He recently finished his feature film Duncan, which I had the pleasure of viewing early and, as you'll hear in this episode, I loved! A wonderfully weird, dark, fun flick. We discuss making movies, I ask some hypothetical questions, and John talks about getti...

Good morning! I hope everyone is doing well and keeping motivated. It's been a helluva' struggle for a lot of us, including myself. But this past weekend I really tried to push myself to get some stuff done. I began working on my newest animation. I prepped some contract work. I painted. I chatted with with Keith about our movie Keith starring Keith that will hopefully be filming in the spring of...

It's been way too long since I've been able to sit down in Flush Studios with a guest and just chat about film making, but luckily Evan Kidd reached out to me at the perfect time! Evan is a shoestring budget filmmaker who has been going out and making his own ideas, whether documentary, short, or feature length. We chatted about his process, how he got into making his own movies outside of the stu...

Hey everyone! Quarantine life goes on and on, but so does the Flush Studios podcast. This week I was able to chat with Tragedy Girls director, Tyler MacIntyre, about the challenges and fun that goes into filmmaking. We talk about where the script and idea for the brutal satire came from, issues that arise in filmmaking, how we can often find our features in the edit, making a good murder, the fun...

How's everyone doing during these very confusing times? Stressed? Bored? Adapting? I get it. On the plus side, I had the chance to sit down with one of the sweetest, nicest people ever, Brendan Steere, to talk about his movie The VelociPastor. We chatted about where the idea came from, how music influenced our process in film, great band names, the challenges of working with a minuscule budget, th...