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 in a £19.6M tax scam and hoe he over came it and now he is back with his wife and fellow producer D...
Mar 24, 2020•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 190
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, casting Sulphur and White, Developing a script based on true events with the real people. Directing m...
Mar 17, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 189
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 motivations in making the film, the importance of key collaborators, the screenwriting process and how he cam...
Mar 10, 2020•50 min•Ep. 188
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 convincing VFX and eschewing a traditional production process to allow for more improvisation from his actors...
Mar 03, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 187
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 discuss the benefits of enjoying a production as much as the final result, the best ways of motivating...
Feb 25, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 186
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, How he cast and directed the kids, how he prepped MONOS and how it felt to win big at Sundance. WATCH ...
Feb 21, 2020•42 min•Ep. 185
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 and TV work such as Batman and British TV and from there started to direct 2nd unit and forge a great...
Feb 18, 2020•50 min•Ep. 184
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 directing (Europe, Europe, In Darkness). PLUS she goes in depth on making the brilliant award winnin...
Feb 11, 2020•44 min•Ep. 183
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 his Hollywood debut which he wrote and directed called 'A Late Quartet' and we talk about how he made...
Feb 04, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 182
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 how to create a narrative from real world environments and events and importantly listening skills ...
Jan 28, 2020•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 181
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. How he hand processed the film and re recorded the dialogue to give Bait it's unique look & sound. B...
Jan 21, 2020•52 min•Ep. 180
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 to raise £27,500. The trio also chat about knowing your audience and how to target it, honing a film...
Jan 14, 2020•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 179
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 you have? Hanging out ‘like a waif’ on the set of Taggart, Rebus and other Scottish TV shows at age ...
Jan 07, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 178
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 The Theory of Everything. The Stephen Hawkings biopic which took 8 years. After that film became a hi...
Dec 30, 2019•58 min•Ep. 177
Director Zackary Adler (Rise of The Krays) and producer and composer James Edward Barker (Mara) discuss the merits of film-making with Giles Alderson (The Dare) and Christian James (Fanged Up) Zack discusses how he got The Krays directing job and the importance of a director composer relationship while James talks through the importance of producer/director relationships as well. The discuss how their latest feature 'The Courier' came to be, casting and working with Gary Oldman & Olga Kurylenko ...
Dec 23, 2019•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 176
Legendary director Fernando Meirelles joins us to talk about how he made his latest feature The Two Popes starring Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce. He discussed how the film came about, what his process is like on set, how he worked with massive names including Anthony Hopkins, how he prepares and performs on the day and how he cast Jonathan Pryce. He talks about lighting The Two Popes and his process working with his DoP and how they used oil paintings as reference and used a flat light. How...
Dec 17, 2019•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 175
Actor, writer and director Tom Cullen joins Giles Alderson to discuss in depth his John Cassavetes-inspired romantic drama feature Pink Wall starring Tatiana Maslany & Jay Duplass. Giles and Tom discuss football, shared inspiration to become an actor/director, a 13-year old's ideal DJ name, challenging yourself at drama school and more. Tom shares some insight on how he collaborates on set, using a semi-improvised style with actors to give them space to explore, working with a limited shooting w...
Dec 10, 2019•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 174
This week actress, producer and screenwriter Sarah Megan Thomas joins Giles Alderson to talk about her latest movie Libertè: A Call to Spy They talk about raising finance and getting to know your investors, how she approached her financiers and kept them for the next film and how you can wear multiple hats on a film set. They natter about Sundance and the film festival lottery, her screenwriting process, casting and how she got star names attached to her first feature film and how to budget, dea...
Dec 03, 2019•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 173
What happens when you take a George A Romero zombie apocalypse and place the focus on a class of 6 year olds? Director of Little Monsters Abe Forsythe shares with us how he approaches comedy, satire and blending genres in his highly original style of film-making. Robbie McKane sat down with Abe to talk about Abe’s influences, his debut feature Ned, based on Australian hero Ned Kelly, and his follow up feature Down Under, which covers on the bizarre landscape of modern polarised social politics w...
Nov 26, 2019•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 172
This week Oscar winning producer Peter Del Vecho drops by The Filmmakers Podcast at Cameo PR studios to talk his new movie Frozen 2. He discusses what goes into an animated movie, how it is all about the story and teamwork and what it was like winning the Oscar for best animated picture. He goes into detail about his career and became a producer at Walk Disney animation studios and how he fell in love with Disney and their ethos of making movies. He talks how Frozen came about and the songs as w...
Nov 19, 2019•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 171
Filmmakers Ed Boase drops in to the Union in Soho to talk how he makes his Indie films, how he raises the finance and his latest feature Trick or Treat! Ed talks about making a short now after making features and how that differs. How he got his start in film-making by getting James Bond legend Desmond Llewelyn to star in his first short film at 17 yrs old. And how Desmond was very generous and helping him become a filmmaker He talks about top tips for a premiere. whether you should go to Film s...
Nov 12, 2019•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 170
Director Tom Harper drops by Cameo Recording Studios to chat with Giles Alderson (The Dare), Dom Lenoir (Winter Ridge) and producer/editor Robbie McKane to talk about how he makes his films including 'Scouting Book For Boys', 'Woman in Black 2', 'War Book', 'Wild Rose' & 'The Aeronauts' which is OUT NOW in cinemas. We talk about he made his start in film-making by making tea in a post house, making short films and his attitude to networking and pitching to TV and film bodies and working with won...
Nov 05, 2019•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 169
This week director and screenwriter Caspar Seale Jones joins Giles Alderson (The Dare) and Fizz and Ginger to talk about his debut feature To Tokyo. He talks about coming from a film-making family and how he originally trained in a animation background . He talks about the importance of story boarding and how important it is to prep a movie. Working on the script is so important and how he set out to make four shorts. Using his families money for the first section and how he found his investors ...
Oct 29, 2019•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 168
This week director and screenwriter Ross Clarke chats about his career in film and his latest feature film The Birdcatcher. A world War II period drama set in Norway. Giles Alderson (The Dare) & Andrew Rodger (Plebs) fresh from filming Arthur & Merlin: Knights of Camelot in Wales talk about making the historical action film in wales and join Ross to talk indie film-making, how to make feature films as creatives and Ross' latest film. Ross talks about asking actor Mark Strong to be in his short f...
Oct 21, 2019•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 167
Today we're joined by Director and Composer Raine McCormack to talk classic Hammer horror, and share our mutual love for The Wicker Man as we discuss his film The Village in the Woods, out on-demand in the UK now. Producer Robbie McKane catches up with Raine at the BFI LFF 2019 whilst Creator and host Giles Alderson gets some much deserved rest after his shoot on the upcoming Arthur & Merlin: Knights of Camelot. Eager listeners may be in for a bonus episode later this week... Robbie and Raine ch...
Oct 15, 2019•56 min•Ep. 166
Director and screenwriter Rowan Athale joins us today to discuss his new film Strange But True, out on-demand in the UK now. We learn about how Rowan broke into the industry by producing shorts and commercials, eventually leading to his debut film Wasteland (known in the UK as The Rise) starring Timothy Spall and Vanessa Kirby, a script that he refused to sell without being attached as director (a trick he learned from Stallone's fight to make Rocky). We also take a deep dive into Rowan's latest...
Oct 07, 2019•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 165
Actors, writers and lifelong friends Emily Mortimer and Dolly Wells join us today to discuss their new film Good Posture, out in cinemas this week on October 4th. We learn about their inspirations, how they write, co-create and collaborate on set, in both Good Posture and their hit sitcom Doll & Em Dolly tells us a bit about her own background and her inspiration from childhood to act, write and now direct, the pair discuss the politics of being friends whilst dealing with the director/actor dyn...
Oct 01, 2019•48 min•Ep. 164
Legendary screenwriter and director David Koepp joins us to discuss his work on Jurassic Park, Mission Impossible, Death Becomes Her, Carlito's Way and Panic Room. We learn about his writing process, collaberation with directors Steven Speilberg, Brian De Palma, Robert Zemeckis and David Fincher. David also speaks about his new book Cold Storage, a sci fi thrill-ride with a potent cocktail of microbiology, body horror and clandestine government storage facilities, we discuss his research approac...
Sep 24, 2019•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 163
Director and screenwriter Simon Cox joins us to talk how he made his epic sci-fi passion project Invasion of Planet Earth with very little money and managed to get a cinema release! Simon sits down with Giles Alderson to talk about his journey as an director, his first film Driven, how that nearly broke him, how to deal with disappointments in film-making and what he learnt from that experience. Simon goes into detail about how he learnt as an editor on kids TV and how he made his first short fi...
Sep 16, 2019•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 162
Director and screenwriter David Raymond joins Giles Alderson on this weeks podcast to talk casting and working with huge named talent including Henry Cavill and Sir Ben Kingsley on his debut film NOMIS aka Night Hunter. They chat how David went from politics to watching The Lord of The Rings to wanting to make movies and how he managed to charm his way into big meeting rooms to begin his creative turnaround. How he wrote his first feature Heroes and Villians and starred in the movie with James C...
Sep 10, 2019•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 161
