The Honest Filmmaker
By Jim Eaves
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REAL TALK FOR ASPIRING FILMMAKERS
Are you wrapping up your film degree or contemplating a career shift into the creative industry? The Honest Filmmaker is your go-to resource for navigating the real-world challenges of micro-budget and indie filmmaking.
Hosted by award-winning filmmaker Jim Eaves, the podcast delves into the nitty-gritty of independent film production. From securing funding and managing tight budgets to distribution strategies and building a sustainable career, this is unfiltered advice and practical tips from professionals who have been in your shoes.
Whether you're a recent graduate, a career changer, or an indie filmmaker determined to make your mark, The Honest Filmmaker equips you with the tools, insights, and honest guidance to thrive in the world of independent cinema.
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How Ole Hartmann Made a $25K Feature Film After Writing It in 8 Days
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Sep 22, 2026 |
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We Thought Making Our First Feature Would Be Easier… with Devin Smock and Sam David
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Sep 15, 2026 |
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From $100 to HELLMARE: Victor Gabriel on Making Micro-Budget Feature Films
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Sep 08, 2026 |
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From a £6K Feature to an £80K Film with Peter Stylianou
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Sep 01, 2026 |
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He Got 4 MILLION Views on a £500 Short… Then Made the Feature with Cathal Fitzpatrick
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Aug 25, 2026 |
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From a £20 Short Film to a Feature: Aaron Truss on Making Films Without Permission
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Aug 18, 2026 |
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Charlie Steeds: Making 20 Feature Films on Micro Budgets
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Aug 11, 2026 |
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From First Feature to Lasting Career: Rob Hollocks on Surviving the Film Industry
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Aug 04, 2026 |
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The Reality of Making Your First Feature Film with Asif Pervez
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Jul 28, 2026 |
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Building an Animation Career, AI, and the Future of the Industry with Tom Box
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Jul 21, 2026 |
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From Commercial Director to Feature Filmmaker | Lessons from Making Kangaroo Island
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Jul 14, 2026 |
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10 Filmmaking Truths That Will Save You Years with Pat Higgins
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Jul 07, 2026 |
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Don't Wait for Permission. Make the Feature Film with Alex Alessi
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Jun 30, 2026 |
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Building The Lonely Crowd: A First Feature Film Journey
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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AI, Copyright and the Future of Filmmaking with Jonathan Yunger
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Jun 16, 2026 |
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From No Film School to a 5 Day Feature Film | Evan Marcewicz
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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Why AI Faces a Filmmaker Backlash - Micro Budget Horror and Film Financing with Daniel J. Pico
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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Making a Micro Budget Horror Film: Black & White, Filmhub & Indie Film Survival | Zoe Carol & Daya Dodds
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May 26, 2026 |
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Can Micro Budget Films Still Work? Funding, Profit & Distribution
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May 19, 2026 |
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Indie Film Distribution, Micro Budget Horror & Surviving Independent Filmmaking with Austin Galante
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May 12, 2026 |
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From YouTube Film School to Directing Indie Features & Series with Beasy Jones
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May 05, 2026 |
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Inside the Business of Indie Film: What ‘Cheat’ Taught Us About Distribution, Revenue & Reality
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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Micro-Budget Action, Hong Kong Stunts & Filmmaking Reality – with Bruce Fontaine
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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One Man, One Film: How Matt Simpson Made Disremembered Completely Solo
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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What It Really Takes to Make Your First Feature Film with Shawn Goolsby
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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From Indie Hustle to Film Machine - Steve Love on Budget, Mistakes & Distribution
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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The Business of Storytelling: Practical Wisdom for Screenwriters (From Spec to Screen)
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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High Concept, Micro Budget: Making Bears on a Ship with Eduardo Castrillo
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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From First Film to Franchise: Ramon “Swift” Sloan on Indie Filmmaking
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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Making a Feature on Weekends: Tobias Jon on Gifted Pain
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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How to make money from your short films with ZB Siwek
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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Surviving Your First Indie Feature Film - From Dog Soldiers to Director with Craig Conway
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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Audience, Budget & Distribution - Building your Indie Film Career with Devon Bray
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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How to Sell your Movie to HBO - with Stefan Van De Graaf
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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Directing Your First Micro-Budget Feature Film with Jessica Boss
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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How to Self-Distribute a Micro-Budget Feature Film with Alex Srednoselac
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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How to Fund a Micro-Budget Movie: 5 Practical Financing Strategies
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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How to be a full time Filmmaker - Building a Micro Budget Movie Career with Gugu E. Michaels
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Is Filmhub's Relay the future of Indie Film Streaming? With Chad Wittman
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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Making your Debut Indie Feature Film with Jon Hill
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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No Risk, No Reward - Micro Budget Filmmaking with Justin Phillip
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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The Indie Filmmaking Rollercoaster - The Blade Cuts Deeper with Gene Dolders
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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Write it, Shoot it, Survive it - The Art of Getting It Done
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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10 Things you should never do when making your first feature film
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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How to finance your Horror film from grants and funding bodies
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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16 Mistakes that Indie Filmmakers make... from my own Painful Experience
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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Indie Filmmaking Essentials - Everything I learned from making The Apocalypse Box
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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Everything you need to know about Directing Indie Film with Andrea M. Catinella
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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How to Make a Horror Movie with Erin Aine & Kyle Valle
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Turn your Short into a Feature film with Hillary Shakespeare & Chris Reading
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Crowd Funding Masterclass with Melissa Center
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Should your Micro Budget Feature be a Passion Project? with Alexandru Borchescu
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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How to Shoot a Gritty Gangster Flick - Michael Head’s Indie Gangster Blueprint
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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How to Make Your First Feature Film with Jim Eaves
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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How to make a Profitable Low Budget Movies on Tubi in 2025 with Justin Milton
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Breaking into Indie Film Directing with William Kaufman
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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How to Make Feature Films on a Micro Budget with Andy Edwards
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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How to get your Micro Budget Short Film into festivals with Nathan Benham
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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How to Work with Actors on a Micro Budget Indie Feature
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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How to Direct an Episode of Black Mirror with Carl Tibbetts
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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The Benefits of Shooting an Indie Feature on Film with Ian Diaz
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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How to make a Successful Short Film with Vincent Wrenn DOP
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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The Indie Filmmaker’s Survival Guide: 20 Things I wish I knew when I started
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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How to Make an Indie Feature Film with Michael Marco
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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Brutally Honest Truths about Film Distribution
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Film Hub 2025 update special with Jason Horton
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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How to be a Composer for Minecraft with Crispin Hands
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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Micro Budget Movie Masterclass - Film hub and Tubi - with Jason Park
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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How to Start Making your Micro Budget Feature with Daniel Talbott & Andrew Klaus-Vineyard
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May 27, 2025 |
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How to get a Famous Actor in your £30k Micro Budget Feature with Mitchell Tolliday
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May 20, 2025 |
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Funding, Filming & Finding an Audience - Micro Budget Movie Hustle with Jake C. Young
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May 13, 2025 |
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How to have an Acting Career in L.A. with Kerstin Schulze on The Honest Filmmaker Podcast
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May 06, 2025 |
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Indie Film Marketing Masterclass with Jim Fredrick
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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How to sell your film direct to Distributors with Marc Marriott
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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How to write a Kurt Cobain Biography with Kelly Catlin
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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How to Make a Feature Film for $10,000 with Sean & Taylor King
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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How to get your Debut Feature Film into Cinemas
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Getting a Distributor to Fund your Micro Budget Film with Joseph Mbah
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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How to be a Controversial Filmmaker with Uwe Boll
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Can You Finance an Indie Film Using Cryptocurrency?
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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Packaging your film for Investors with Rosa Camero
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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What Wedding Videos taught me about Filmmaking - Insights with Victor Hughes
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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The Truth about Film Distribution with Rosa Camero
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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How to be a Television Director with Jon East
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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How to make a Micro Budget Action Indie Feature with James Couche
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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From Iconic Movie VFX to Writing & Directing with John Schlag
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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How to get your Indie Feature on Apple TV + with Tiffany Kim Stevens
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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How to Make a Micro Budget Giallo Inspired Feature Film with Gene Dolders
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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How to Direct a Movie for Shudder with Josh Forbes
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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Careers, Indie Filmmaking Trends and Highlights of 2024
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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How to shoot and release a Christmas film at the Cinema with Eric Wong
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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Genre Rebels - Telling Stories that don't fit the Formula with Lorissa & C.J. Julianus
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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Writing, Acting, Directing & Producing your First Feature with Dzifa Mallet
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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Turn your Micro Budget Feature into a Directing Career with Joshua Caldwell
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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Indie Film Marketing & Reaching your Audience with Chris Nials
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Was AFM worth it? - Two Indie Filmmakers Perspective with Henry Winnik & Lucas Rios
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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Using Data & Statistics to be a Better Filmmaker with Stephen Follows
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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What to expect from the American Film Market and how to write, fund, shoot and sell your debut feature film with Tom Malloy
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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How to be a Netflix Cinematographer with Benedict Spence - D.O.P on ERIC and This is going to hurt
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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How to Crack Social Media with your Indie Film with Chris Mayo aka Big Fat Cult
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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From The Black List to Fright Fest with Darren Geare
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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How to Direct Stop Motion Movies for Aardman with Will Becher
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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From Fright Fest to Film Hub with Georgia Conlan and Martin Hardwick- Charlotte the Movie
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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Short Films - Funding, Shooting & Film Festivals with Hakim Zziwa
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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How to be a Hollywood Costume Designer with Cynthia Summers
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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How to Release your Debut Feature Film - Amazon Prime, YouTube Movies & Google Play
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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Doctor Who, Marvel & Mission Impossible - Production Design with Phil Sims
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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How to have a career in Television and Theatre - The actors dream with Tom Butcher
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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How to Kickstart your Creative Career with Sam Hornsby from ERIC the Creative Career App
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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How to be a successful Soap Actor with Corrinne Wicks
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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How to turn a Short Film into a Television Career with Jamie Donoughue
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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How to make a Profitable Low Budget Movies on Tubi with Justin Milton
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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How to have a Career in Visual Effects with Harry Potter Visual Effects Supervisor Christian Manz
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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How to get 200,000 Streams on a Bigfoot Movie - Micro Budget Masterclass with Mitch Laing
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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How to Boost your Film's Exposure - proven strategies with Amy Guth
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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How to get your movie into Sundance with Producer Isen Robbins
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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How to win an Oscar for Sound Design with Nina Hartstone
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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How to be a successful television director with Andrew Gunn
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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How to write a Commercial Screenplay with Lucy V. Hay
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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How to be a Concept Artist with John Gallagher AKA Uncannyknack
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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How to release a Low Budget film - Theatrical and Streaming with Gabriel Foster Prior
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May 28, 2024 |
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Cannes Film Festival & Sales Market 2024 Report from Mark Hampton - Marche Du Film, Palais
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May 21, 2024 |
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What is Virtual Production? with Phil Griffiths from Framesync
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May 14, 2024 |
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How to be a Radio Presenter with Aryana Neo - Presenting, Acting and Confidence tips
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May 07, 2024 |
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How to be a Working Actor with Mark Hampton
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Cannes Film Festival Survival Guide - Prep, Parties, Receptions & Networking
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Fright Fest Special with Paul McEvoy - One of the UK's biggest and brightest thriller, fantasy and horror film festivals
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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How to be a Fight Choreographer with Brahim Chab - Monkey Man, Dev Patel
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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How to be a Celebrity Stylist & Fashion Consultant with Wilfree Vasquez Torres
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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From Short Films to The Industry with Gabriel Miller
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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How to be an Ethical Filmmaker with Benn Wiebe
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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How to Make a Living as a DOP - Director of Photography with Andrew Rodger
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Classic Movie Make Up SFX with seasoned pro Rob Burman
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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How to make money on Film Hub with Jason Horton
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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How to Direct a Hollywood Movie with Clive Tonge
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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How to Promote your Independent Film - Marketing Strategy with Rosa Camero
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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How to be a Big Budget Stunt Performer with Adam Basil - To be a Stuntman or Stuntwoman
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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How to Sell a Film - Navigating Sales Agents and Distributors as a Filmmaker
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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How to play Iconic Characters with Ross Mullan - The White Walker from HBO's Game of Thrones
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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How to Crowd Fund your feature film with Writer/Director MJ Dixon - Career advice from successful crowd funder
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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How to be a Marvel Studios Make Up SFX Artist with Jon Moore - Career Advice from Creatives
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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How to be a Commercial Drone Pilot - Get your license and start working paid gigs
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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Film Industry Myths Busted - What Film Students are often told - debunking some common misconceptions about the film industry.
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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BAFTA Winning Secrets: Kids TV Production Insights | The Honest Filmmaker Podcast
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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How to be a Sound Recordist with with THE MEG 2 Production Sound Mixer Rob Entwistle
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Festivals, Talent Labs and Dealing with Sales Agents with Writer/Director Graham Hughes
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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How to be a Professional Puppeteer with Olly Taylor
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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How to get your Script Optioned with writer/director Pat Higgins
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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How to be a Successful Freelance Filmmaker with Jake Hawkins
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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How to be a Published Author with Bev Sanford
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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How Film Sales & Distribution Works with Head of Acquisitions Ross Boyask
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Introducing - The Honest Filmmaker Podcast
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Nov 05, 2023 |