The Filmmakers Podcast

Anna & The Apocalypse director John McPhail joins Giles Alderson to chat how to make films. They discuss what makes us fall in love with movies ? How important it is to know your audience. How John made a short called ‘Notes’ based on a real story of not ever meeting a guy he used to live with. They also chat about going from shorts to his first feature ‘Where do we go from Here?’ by using some of...

Director Jack Spring joins Giles Alderson and Christian James to talk about how he made his debut feature 'Destination Dewsbury'. Jack tells us how he taught himself to raise money for his film by setting up a hot tub business at 18 years old and after netting over a £100K turnover sold it a year later so he could make his feature film Destination Dewsbury. He tells us how he learnt how to package...

Ep 164 - The delightful and very talented Neasa Hardiman joins us this week to talk about her new feature film, the excellent Sea Fever (OUT NOW!) Neasa joins Giles Alderson (The Dare) and Dom Lenoir (Winter Ridge) remotely to talk about her joy of film-making, the journey she took to get here and what she learnt along the way. They chat going from shorts and documentaries to TV and film. Making H...

This week we talk making a MMA style Cagefighting movie with director Jesse Quinones and producer Shayne Putzlocher which releases this SAT May 16th on FITE.com Giles Alderson had a chat with Jesse and Shayne about their careers, how they got to where they are. They talk about shooting and choreographing a action film, pre vis and storyboards and why you need to come as prepared as possible. They...

This week MovieBar co owner and producer & director Esther Turan joins us to talk how to make feature films and specifically how to co-pro with a production company. Esther, whose production company Movie Bar, based in Budapest in Hungary, Europe has produced over 500 commercials and 30 films and TV productions sits down with Giles Alderson (The Dare, A Serial Killers Guide to Life) to chat about...

This week Giles Alderson (The Dare) and Ian Sharp (The Marker) had a natter with very well established movie producer Todd Garner about the state of the film industry, how you can get movies made and why now is the best time to get your projects ready! Todd Garner, the Hollywood veteran has overseen 170 films (and counting) who's credits include xXx, Are We There Yet, Next, 13 Going on 30, Anger M...

Join us on this weeks episode as we talk distribution! Alex Ferrari, director of 'This is Meg' and 'On the Corner of Ego & Desire' chats to Giles Alderson (The Dare) in his home in LA about how you can distribute your film and make money from it. They chat about the Distribber debacle, the Facebook group set up from it to help filmmakers and the best way to distribute your indie film. They also go...

Giles Alderson (The Dare) had a chat during isolation with Ravers director Bernhard Pucher about how he came to make his second feature film. They chat about his brilliant fun comedy horror film Ravers and delve into why Bernhard became a director. What his journey was to his first feature film 'Betsy & Lennard' and how he raised finance for both films! They also talk about tattoos, great films fo...

Part 2 of our Make Your Film on line summit is with award winning producers Phin Glynn & Jack Binder who join Giles Alderson (The Dare ) and Dom Lenoir (Winter Ridge) to talk about surviving the Corona Virus as filmmakers and how you can prepare you projects. Phin discusses Pitch decks and vision packs and why you should make them. How investors might be feeling now and the best way to approach th...

Scripts and development for filmmakers - This is Part 1 of our Make Your Film online summit event where Giles Alderson (The Dare) and Dom Lenoir (Winter Ridge) chat with their special guests and go in-depth about how to survive during Covid 19 and get your scripts and projects ready for when we can get back on set again! Our first guest is the very talented screenwriter Krysty Wilson–Cairns. Not o...

Chilling sci fi satire on this week's episode with an interview with Vivarium director Lorcan Finnegan, appropriately atmospheric for isolated viewing. Giles and Robbie open the pod with news on the latest MakeYourFilm online summit event amid the lockdown, followed by Robbie's interview with the writer/director. Lorcan discusses his roots in graphic design, beginnings in TV, commercials and webis...

This week husband and wife team Paul and Diane Knight stop by to chat with Giles Alderson (The Dare) ad Ian Sharp (The Marker) about making their latest movie '24 Little Hours' for just 10k in 8 Days! A real treat for filmmakers as returning favourite Paul Knight continues his chat from episodes 31 & 32 where he talked very openly about the issue he had when his film Landscape of Lies was involved...

This week we are joined by director Julian Jarrold who talks about his new film Sulphur and White starring Mark Stanley, Anna Friel and Emily Beecham which is OUT NOW Giles' film The Dare has just been released in the US and Canada and he tells you some tips he learnt in LA and Dom kills off some of his Bucket List. Julian tells us about working on The Crown, where he had just come from the set, c...

For those who have been following the journey, director Giles Alderson's feature THE DARE is now out in the US - track it down and seek it out if you're listening stateside. Today Giles and DOP Andrew Rodger are joined by writer and director Francis Annan to discuss his stunning debut feature Escape from Pretoria starring Daniel Radcliffe. Francis speaks on some of the key influences and motivatio...

On Ep 152 Giles joins you from LA in his intro this week to celebrate the US release of his long-awaited feature film THE DARE. Headlining today's episode, we chat with Aleem Hossain director of sci-fi feature After We Leave, winner of best feature film at sci-fi London 2019 and best director at Berlin Sci-Fi. Aleem gives Giles some insight into his process, in going low-budget, creating convincin...

Giles and Robbie sit down with Kate Madison, director of the phenomenal web series Ren, a fantasy saga complete with swordplay, magic and homages to everything Tolkienesque. Kate tells us about how she gathered a loyal following of fans, from helming the Lord of the Rings fan film Born of Hope, all the way through to financing the first season of Ren with an impressive crowdfunding campaign. We di...

 For our 150th BONUS episode we sat down with acclaimed writer and director Alejandro Landes to talk about how he made his award winning feature, the thought provoking, unsettling look at human nature in the stunning looking survivalist saga 'MONOS'! (OUT NOW) He talks to Giles Alderson (The Dare) about how he wrote the movie, raised finance and even started shooting before he had all the money, H...

On this episode 149 of The Filmmakers Podcast Giles Alderson ('The Dare') had a natter with director and stunt choreographer Nick Powell about working with Nicolas Cage and his latest film Primal (OUT NOW) We chat how Nick started out as an actor and was offered a role at The National Theatre but couldn’t afford it so started doing stunts through his love of martial arts and started to get films a...

Twice Oscar nominated screenwriter & director Agnieszka Holland joins Giles Alderson (The Dare) to talk about her film-making journey and her latest film Mr Jones (OUT NOW in cinema and on demand) She talks about how she writes her screenplays, How she works with actors, the process of being on set and working with actors and the difference between TV directing (The Wire, House of Cards) and film...

Screenwriter and director Yaron Zilberman joins Giles Alderson to chat about his latest feature film Incitement. We chat how he started making documentaries and learnt that he wanted to make movies for the rest of his life. And how he learned to raise money for his films . We talk about his process as a screenwriter and working with acting legends Philip Seymour Hoffman and Christopher Walken on h...

Shola Amoo, The director and screenwriter of the BIFA winning 'The Last Tree' sits down with Giles Alderson and Robbie McKane to chat how he makes his films on episode 146 of TFP He talks about his start in journalism and his route to film through documentary film-making, Learning transferable skills from journalism, critical reading, analysing texts and applying that through documentary, learning...

Live from 'Dirt in the Gate's' screening at The Shelley Theatre in Bournemouth as Director, DoP, writer, producer, composer and editor Mark Jenkins sat down with his camera lighting man Colin Holt and host Shaun Kimber to discuss how he made his award winning feature BAIT. They talk the shot the film on 16mm film using 130 roles of film down on the Cornish coast with his mates and minimal budget....

This week we're joined by filmmakers Staten Cousins Roe and Poppy Roe where they discuss their killing spree filled black comedy A Serial Killer's Guide to Life with host and producer Giles Alderson  Poppy and Staten discuss the importance of appreciating the collaborators and creators around you, savvy ways to keep a cost-effective shoot, and the knack of running a successful Kickstarter campaign...

We chat with the lovely and talented Krysty Wilson-Cairns on this weeks podcast all about screenwriting, her process and working with Sam Mendes on the brilliant and epic 1917 war film. OUT on 10th Jan 2020 Krysty chats with Giles Alderson (The Dare), Dom Lenoir (Winter Ridge) and Robbie McKane about what a typical full time screenwriting day look like - when do you get up? How many Deliveroos do...

Screenwriter and producer Anthony McCarten joins Giles Alderson (The Dare) and Dom Lenoir (Winter Ridge) to talk about writing The Two Popes, Bohemian Rhapsody, The Theory of Everything & Darkest Hour. He talks about where the ideas come from. How to work through the script and how to write the characters who are real whilst re- checking the research  Anthony discusses getting permission to write...