Making Movies is HARD!!!: The Struggles of Indie Filmmaking

This week Liz and Alrik are joined by Actor, Writer and Producer Naomi McDougall to talk about her journey making films in Hollywood. Naomi talks about producing her first feature and her experience …

This week Andrew Schrader and Alrik are back with another update from the set of The Alternate. Things start to get better going into the last three weeks and Andrew and Alrik talk over what it is li…

This week we have a very special episode with more guests than usual! Co-Host Liz Manashil's latest film Speed of Life played the Napa Valley Film Festival and the festival was gracious enough to all…

This week we are back with the fourth in our series of updates from the set of The Alternate! This time the other half of the podcast Liz Manashil joins Alrik to talk through the audio logs for days …

After a couple editing snafus and working on a couple of features, we are finally able to release our episode featuring the film Greener Grass with writer, directors and stars, Jocelyn DeBoer and Daw…

This week we are back with the third in a series of updates from the set of The Alternate! This time co-host Andrew Schrader is joined by Alrik to talk through the audio logs for days six, seven and …

We are back with another Speed of Life centric episode of MMIH, this time Liz Manashil sits down with two of her producers Pardis Sullins and Josh JD Compton to talk about the producing of their film…

This week Liz and Alrik talk to Liz's production designer on her second feature film, Speed of Life, Marcie Maute! Marcie tells us about how she brought the two timelines into existence, working on a…

This week we are back with the second in a series of updates from the set of The Alternate! This time co-host Andrew Schrader is joined by Alrik to talk through the audio logs for days four and five …

This week we are going to share with you the first in a series of audio logs I recorded during Principal Photography for The Alternate! For this first update co-host Andrew Schrader goes through the …

This week Alrik and Liz are excited to have Polish filmmaker Bartlomiej 'Bart' Skupien on the show to talk about his journey making short films in Poland and why he prefers to write all of his films …

This week Alrik and Liz welcome production designer Rob Riutta to the show to talk about designing the eleven feature films he has under his belt, what goes into the art department and is process for…

This week Liz and Alrik welcome back multi-hyphenate writer, director, author, podcaster and indie film podcast mogul Alex Ferrari to the show! Alex talks to us about his newest book, the Rise of the…

This week Liz Manashil and Alrik welcome Writer/Director Jennifer Reeder to the show to talk about her career as a director and her newest film, Knives and Skin which hits theaters and VOD on Friday …

On this Turkey Two-Fer we start off with L. Jeffrey Moore and Alrik talking with LA Based Actor/Writer/Producer Bruce Nachsin about his path as a filmmaker, making action shorts and his Super Hero sh…

On our second part of our Turkey Day Special co-host Winnie Wong and Alrik chat with filmmaker, musician, writer and director Dominic Mercurio! Dominic talks to us about his work in music videos and …

This week special co-host Samiat Salami and Alrik talk to writer/director/producer Dave Bundtzen about making horror short films and his strategy to make his filmmaking profitable! This and much more…

This week Liz and Alrik talk to actor turned writer/director Alex Wolff about growing up in front of the camera and discovering himself as a writer/director as a teenager which lead him down a five y…

Andrew Schrader and Gavin Murray join Alrik this week to talk about the Just Shoot It Live show they all went to the night before and to grill Alrik on how he feels about the crowdfunding campaign fo…

Matt, Oren, Alrik and new co-host Liz Manashil sit down and talk about a variety of topics including why we podcast, Liz's film Speed of Life, Alrik's film The Alternate and we even have a little tal…