The Filmmakers Podcast

Filmmakers Tori Butler Hart & Matthew Butler Hart join us this week to chat about thier Making their Found Footage Indie Movie Dagr. The filmmakers behind Two Down, The Isle and Infinitum: Subject Unknown chat with Giles Alderson and Phil Hawkins about why they wanted to make another movie on an i-phone, why found footage and how they created another hit movie. They also discuss: How they found th...

Actor and Producer Tye Sheridan, Asphalt City, Ready Player One, Mud & Tree of Life joins us to chat his career, stepping up to produce and working with a whole host of talents including Stephen Spielberg, Terence Malick and Sean Penn. Tye chats to Dom Lenoir about: His journey as an actor. Auditions and nearly quitting. Breaking through with Tree of Life and Mud. Working with Spielberg on Ready P...

David Ayer is a writer, director and producer of numerous blockbuster films starring Hollywood actors such as Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Will Smith, Jake Gyllenhaal, and many more. During his press tour for The Beekeeper, host Dom Lenoir had the opportunity to sit down with him and have a nice chat about working with Jason Statham the beginning of his career the importance of knowing how to story d...

Yorgos Lanthimos’ Oscar-winning Poor Things (2023) starring Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Mark Ruffalo and many more, currently excites audiences around the globe. Today, producers Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe from Element Pictures come on to our show to chat with primo-host Dom Lenoir about working Yorgos Lanthimos making Poor Things running a successful production company tax credit in Hungary what pro...

On today’s show, we welcome you two to join us not in one but in two lovely conversations. In our first chat, Sam Ampah explains the new UK film tax relief to our hosts Giles Alderson & Dom Lenoir. And in our second one, we have Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, director of Netflix’s Damsel (2024), starring Millie Bobby Brown, Robin Wright, and Angela Bassett, talking about: directing Millie Bobby Brown ov...

On today’s show, we not only welcome one but two fabulous guests! Dom Lenoir sat down with director Thea Sharrock known for her work on “Britannia” (2017-2021) or “Me Before You” (2016), and writer Jonny Sweet – “Together” (2015), “Chickens” (2013) - to talk about their latest feature film “Wicked Little Letters” (2023), starring Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Timothy Spall, and many more. They al...

Writer and Director Issa López join us to chat how she went from struggling filmmaker to showrunner on HBO's True Detective: Night Country. Issa joins Dom Lenoir to chat getting THAT call from HBO and how she brought a beloved franchise back to it's roots. She talks: Shooting in dramatic locations in Alaska. Extensive development notes. Waiting years for her big break. & Developing a chilling (lit...

On today’s special Friday episode, Dom Lenoir sat down with writer & director Reinaldo Marcus Green, the man behind films and TV shows such as Amend: The Fight for America (2021), King Richard (2021) and We Own This City (2022) to chat about his latest feature film: Bob Marley: One Love (2024). They talk about making a studio movie bringing HODs from project to project shooting in multiple countri...

Director and Screenwriter Nikolaj Arcel joins us to talk about having a career as filmmaker, his latest film The Promised Land starring Mads Mikkelsen and why you should write your own films. Award winning filmmaker Nikolaj joins fellow filmmakers Giles Alderson and Dom Lenoir to discuss the film industry and why is not proud of all of his films. Nikolaj also discusses: Working as a filmmaker in D...

On today’s show, we not only have one but two juicy conversations. In our first chat, our primo-host Dom Lenoir sat down with writer-director-producer Michel Franco to have a quick talk about working with Jessica Chastain how his latest feature film “Memory” came about his learnings from his filmmaking career And then, Dom and Giles sat down to have an honest talk about the current state of the in...

This weeks guest is Sean Durkin, the writer and director of not only of the ace Martha, Marcy, May, Marlene but of the excellent The Iron Claw which stars Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Lily James and Harris Dickinson. Dom Lenoir sat down with Sean and had a wonderful chat about his process as a writer, producer and director. They discussed: Challenging the misconceptions of wrestling and putting...

Dana Kippel joins fellow filmmaker Giles Alderson to chat about her journey creating her micro budget indie film, Reflect. She talks why she chose to direct, Addiction and mental health. Why having a beginners mind is useful and her planning and prep. She talks finance and crowdfunding, writing the script in two weeks and giving notes to fellow actors when you are also acting. She also discusses w...

Matthew Vaughn joins us to discuss making his latest feature the spy action thriller Argylle as well as creating a brand identity and how he makes independent films. The director, producer and writer of movies such as Kick Ass, Kingsman, X Men, Layer Cake, Snatch, Rocketman, Tetris and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels chats to Giles Alderson and Dom Lenoir about making his movies. He also talks...

'The End We Start From' director Mahalia Belo chats with Dom Lenoir about making he Jodie Comer starring debut feature and why cinema is a healing machine. Mahalia discusses screening at Toronto and the feeling of releasing a movie to audiences. Adapting a novel, working with a screenwriter Alice Birch & collaborations. Trying to keep an emotional truth within storytelling. Writing letters to cast...

19-year-old Grant Heslov met 21-year-old George Clooney at drama school. Forty years later, they are a successful, Oscar-winning producer-director-actor duo. Would you like to learn more about their inspiring story? Luckily for us, Dom Lenoir sat down with Grant Heslov, producer of films like Argo (2012), Monuments Men (2014) and The Boys in the Boat (2023), to chat about... - production for direc...

This weeks guest is J. A. Bayona the director of Society of the Snow, Netflix’s new smash hit movie. He is also the director of The Orphanage, A Monster Calls, The Impossible, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and the TV series Rings of Power. J.A sits down with fellow director Giles Alderson to discuss Society of the Snow and making disaster films. Creating huge set pieces and THAT plane crash. He t...

Oppenheimer (2023) is one of the biggest films of last year. Two days ago, it won 5 Golden Globes, including Best Drama, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Original Score. And this is why today, we treat you with our epic feature-length Oppenheimer-episode: our hosts Giles Alderson and Dom Lenoir sat down with editor Jennifer Lame, costume designer Ellen Mirojnick, Make-Up...

Director and writer George C. Wolfe is our guest on the podcast this week as he chats with Dom Lenoir about re-creating black civil rights marches and moments of American history with his latest award winning film RUSTIN!. George, who has won five Tony Awards, also directed the feature Ma Rainey's Black Bottom discusses: Making a complicated homosexual factual film. Financing through President Oba...

Happy New Year and as a treat for you for 2024, Dom Lenoir sits down with director James Hawes to talk making award season features and huge streaming series and discuss his latest feature 'One Life' starring Anthony Hopkins which is out NOW. James talks about his career how he got involved in One Life, how he dealt with the difficult but rewarding story. Working with young children in a psycholog...

Our filmmaking wrap up and Christmas / New Year QUIZ of 2023! Join Giles Alderson, Stephen Follows, Dom Lenoir, Sophie Rodger, Tobias Vees and Andrew Rodger as they discuss their films of the year, what has changed in the film industry this last year & filmmaking issues their would adapt if they could. What can we/you do differently and positively in 2024 to make our films and make the change need...

Director Simon Cellan Jones joins Giles Alderson and Dom Lenoir to talk working with Hollywood stars, making a career as a filmmaker and directing the ace new action comedy The Family Plan starring Mark Wahlberg and Michelle Monaghan. Simon discusses how he worked at 20th Century Fox in the mail room before working as a runner at the BBC then made a short film and sold to to them. He went to make...

Joining us on this weeks podcast are 'Femme' directors and writers - Sam Freeman and Ng Choon Ping to talk about their BIFA winning short Femme which they then made a feature film starring George Mackay and Nathan Stewart Jarret. Sam and Ping sat down with Giles Alderson to chat how they went from theatre directing and writing to making their BIFA winning short film which led onto their feature of...

This week we are joined by directors Sam Boyd who's joins us to discuss making Working Title's 'Genie' starring Melissa McCarthy and Paapa Essiedu. Sam sits down with Giles Alderson and Dom Lenoir to talk going from short film to indie feature then from writing and directing his hit TV series 'Love Life' to Working Title feature film with 'Genie'. Sam also discusses pitching to the films writer an...

This week on the podcast we chat with writer and director Stuart Gatt about his debut feature film, the festival darling Catching Dust. Stuart sits down with fellow filmmaker Giles Alderson and discusses making the leap from shorts to feature, how he felt making Catching Dust and what he learnt along the way. They also discuss: Why making a short film a calling card is vital . Why he wants to make...

Join us for the 5th edition of The Business of Film Explained ! Our series on the business aspects on our film industry and how we can help you over come them! On this episode we dive into the fact that the SAG Strike is OVER! and now they are over what does this mean for you, the indie filmmaker. We discuss what benefits the actors negotiated and what can we expect next. Joining your ears is the...