Raising finance, getting named cast & writing producing and starring in your indie feature films with Sarah Megan Thomas

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, deal with rejections, working with directors as a producer and actor and we talk about her journey as a female filmmaker and her latest brilliant film that she wrote, produced, raised the money for and starred in: Libertè: A Call to Spy .  WATCH Libertè: A Call to Spy at Whistler Film Festival on 6th Dec 2019 Follow Sarah Megan Thomas on Twitter here www.twitter.com/SarahMeganT LINKS FREEBIES SPONSORS & PROMOS   This week's episode is sponsored by MusicBed  Promo Code: FILMMAKERSPOD - Get one month of subscription on MUSIC BED for free — or 20% off of a single-song purchase. Just enter promo code FILMMAKERSPOD when you check out. Tickets to the latest MAKEYOURFILM event on 10th Dec 2019 here  Raindance Use promo code 20SATURDAY20 for 20% off Saturday film school on December 7th :) https://www.raindance.org/courses/saturday-film-school/ WATCH A Serial Killers Guide to Life trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=395fp-nEkoU WATCH The Dare trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5aZVm2drjY Giles Alderson website   WATCH World of Darkness https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07BS35KQ2?pf_rd_p=855cdcfd-05d9-474f-b84d-8286a3530ba1&pf_rd_r=G5Q5NNQZR9PRZNQ4ME5D   WATCH Fanged Up https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fanged-Up-Daniel-OReilly/dp/B07F83JN6G/ref=sr_1_1?s=instant-video&ie=UTF8&qid=1542670909&sr=1-1&keywords=fanged   Follow us on Twitter @filmmakerspod @gilesalderson @robbiemckane @Food4ThoughtDoc @35mmdop @Cjamesdirect @dan710ths @FangedUpFilm @thedaremovie @philmblog   Part of the www.podfixnetwork.squarespace.com   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices