This week Giles welcomes back Ian Sharp from Sharphouse Films to co-host our interview with Piers Tempest, producer on The Wife, Killing Bono, Military Wives and Love Wedding Repeat about the craft and intrigue of producing at different levels of the industry. That’s right, it’s a full-on producing masterclass. Piers tells us his route into film, how he got into the world of production, avoiding sharks and throwing himself into productions to learn the ropes. Ian quizzes Piers on development fin...
Aug 17, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 213
Today we welcome folklore-horror director André Ovredal to discuss his new indie horror Mortal . Known for his found-footage modern masterpiece Troll Hunter as well as the chilling The Autopsy of Jane Doe , and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark André chats to Giles and Andy about his craft and process from pitch to shoot, including working with other top tier horror directors like Guillermo del Toro . André covers the road to his first feature Future Murder which he wrote in 8 days whilst at fil...
Aug 10, 2020•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 212
Today we welcome back producer Lucinda Rhodes Thakrar as well as director Ben Mole to talk about their WW2 indie Behind the Line: Escape to Dunkirk . We dive into how writer/director Ben Mole came up with a fresh concept for a WW2 thriller, how Lucinda and rallied an art department meticulous enough to handle 1940’s’ period accuracy - and how a simple coffee in a Colchester car park can lead to a great collaboration. Just like a classic genre flick, Behind the Line was shot back to back with thi...
Aug 03, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 211
On this week's episode, we welcome writer and director Matt Eskandari to discuss his career which includes three collaborations with action superstar Bruce Willis. From the recently released Survive the Night , to their first feature together Trauma Center , and the upcoming Hard Kill. Matt lets us in on his approach to building a good rapport with bigger name actors, tells us the benefits of learning about cinema history and how he made his first short with off-cuts of 35mm film given to him by...
Jul 28, 2020•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 210
On this episode, we welcome the team behind Break, a competitive sports/crime drama from first-time writer/director Michael Elkin, first-time producer Terri Dwyer and veteran producer Dean Fisher Giles discusses scripting with Michael and the challenges of getting the film financed and greenlit with Terri and Dean, including their pitch deck and presentation strategies to individual investors. They also talk about purposefully incorporating international elements to the story such as filming in ...
Jul 20, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 209
Part 2 of our inspiring Arthur & Merlin: Knights of Camelot podcast Special Making Of Master Class with cast and crew from the film with Production Designer Jamie Foote, Editor Oliver Parker, Producer and Post Supervisor Jeet Thakrar and actors Jennifer Matter (Vortigone), Joel Phillimore (Modred) and Stella Stocker (Guinevere) We go deep into making a single film on this weeks bumper edition as some of the main cast and crew from the recently released Arthur & Merlin : Knights of Camelo...
Jul 17, 2020•1 hr 46 min•Ep. 208
This is a Arthur & Merlin: Knights of Camelot podcast Special Making Of with cast and crew from the film with actors including Richard Brake (Merlin) & Richard Short (King Arthur) and his Knights, crew members from Art Dept, Make Up, Costume, 1st AD, Production Manager, Editor and Post Supervisor. We go deep into making a single film on this weeks bumper edition as some of the main cast and crew from the recently released Arthur & Merlin : Knights of Camelot come and chat about how t...
Jul 14, 2020•2 hr 8 min•Ep. 207
This weeks we chat to experienced filmmaker and all round great guy Ross Boyask about making action films, creativity on set and his latest film and sequel, I am Vengeance: Retaliation starring Stu Bennett and Vinnie Jones . Hosts Giles Alderson (Arthur & Merlin) and producer Robbie McKane dive deep with Ross into action film-making, how to prepare the scenes, working on set, getting performance from actors and creating a safe environment to do so. We discuss the virtual Cannes Film Festival...
Jul 06, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 206
This week Giles Alderson (The Dare) sits down for a natter with directing & producing legend AND master of horror Danny Draven to talk about his journey and how and why he can make very successful movies some in just four days! Including William Shatner’s Full Moon Fright Night’s Horror Vision, Danny Draven’s Masters of Terror & Horror Vault, Patient Seven, Stuart Gordon Presents Deathbed, The Offerings (a.k.a. Ghost Month), Hell Asylum, and Reel Evil. We chat about his books, he has wri...
Jun 29, 2020•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 205
This week we are joined by prolific filmmaker James Cullen Bressack who has made over 50 released feature films and he's not yet 30! Giles Alderson (The Dare) and Ian Sharp (The Marker) had a good ol' natter with James about his career and what goes into making so many feature films. We talk about one of his latest feature films Beyond the Law starring Steven Segal and how he loves to change genres. We discuss how he was coming up with ideas for his Dad's shows when he was 3 and made his first f...
Jun 23, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 204
This week we are joined by returning hero George Popov who appeared on Ep 28 talking about his first feature film HEX made for just 10k. Now after a very successful release with that film he is back to talk about his second feature film The Droving. He sits down (remotely, obviously) with director Giles Alderson (The Dare) and DoP Andrew Rodger (Arthur & Merlin: Knights of Camelot) to chat about self distribution on Amazon, hoe he got success with HEX and how he brought on a distribution com...
Jun 16, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 203
Exec Producer Marc Goldberg, CEO of Signature Entertainment and producer of movies including Final Score, The Courier, The Peanut Butter Falcon, American Woman, Robin Hood: The Rebellion, The Birdcatcher and Arthur & Merlin: Knights of Camelot has a chat with Giles Alderson from his home in LA. They talk about acquiring and distributing films and the strategy behind producing movies, understanding the model and business of films and how a distribution company like Signature Ent. works. They ...
Jun 09, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 202
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 his award money winnings to pay for it. How important it is to have the ability to phone up and...
Jun 01, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 201
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 a film, how he got Destination Dewsbury into cinemas, how he get signed with William Morris Agency....
May 26, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 200
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 Happy Valley and winning a BAFTA for doing so, going on to big US TV shows such as Jessica Jones and ...
May 19, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 199
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 talk about Jesse's debut movie Calloused hands and what he learnt as a filmmaker and how he met Shay...
May 11, 2020•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 198
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 her career, how she made a name for herself producing and directing BP Underground and moving to...
May 04, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 197
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 Management, The Fog, The Sorcerers Apprentice, Scouts Guide to the Apocalypse, Haunt, HellBoy, Tag an...
Apr 28, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 196
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 into detail about when distribution should be talked about when making a film, how you need a n...
Apr 21, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 195
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 form 1999, American accents, great VFX, stunts and why you should always 'stick the landing' WATCH...
Apr 14, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 194
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 them at the moment and working with directors and screenwriters and finding projects that you trul...
Apr 10, 2020•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 193
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 only has she just recently been nominated for an Oscar for '1917' but also WON an BAFTA for the same ...
Apr 07, 2020•1 hr 52 min•Ep. 192
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 webisodes before charting his route into film with award-winning short Foxes, which gave him the kudos to...
Mar 31, 2020•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 191
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 produc...
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 actor...
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. WATC...
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
