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

We talk to actor Jackie Dallas about how she launched her career in the Bay Area and landed a role in Stranger Things. Plus, discussions about unions, finances and the challenges of being typecast.

Want to figure out how to get your movie sold, raise the funds or figure out how the movie is going to get seen? This week we have producer/sales rep Ben Yennie on the show to talk over all things fi…

For years, Steven Bernstein was the go-to DP for big budget comedies like Half Baked, Waterboy and White Chicks. Then he shot "Monster" with Patty Jenkins which inspired him to start writing and dire…

This week Timothy and Alrik are in the middle of a big job so they jump back to their old format and talk through a series of topics, including Insurance, Fame and if 25k budget films matter or not?

What do stand-up comedy and filmmaking having in common? A lot actually. This week we delve into the world of comedy with David Roth and talk about advertising, finding your voice and the struggles o…

An insightful conversation with Rob Chester Smith about breaking in as an actor/writer in Los Angeles. Once you've reached your goal what do you do with the feeling "I got here, and now what?"

We celebrate our two-year anniversary by inviting listeners of the show to dial in and talk about what's on their mind. This week we talk to Lindsay Serrano, Jeff Palmer and John Muth for conversatio…

Timothy and Alrik update each other on their projects, their careers and some exciting new opportunities

Rebecca Weaver tells us how she made her $11k budget feature with a two person crew and went on to win "Best American Indie" at the Sonoma Film Fest and "Best Feature" at both the Lone Star & East La…

What do you do once your first feature is done and has distribution? Today we talk with writer/director Sean Nichols Lynch who is in pre-production on his second feature 'Ride with Me' and hear about…

Jared Hess, the man behind "Napoleon Dynamite" succeeded in ways we all dream of, namely hitting big with his first film. We obviously have a ton of questions for him, so stick around for this histor…

What do you do when you first move to LA? This week we have DP and filmmaker Gavin Murray who just moved to LA from SF three months ago and he talks about how he made the move, what he's looking to a…

So you've got a script and all you need is the money to shoot it. Great! But where do you start? This week, producer Yumee Jang sits down to answer all our questions about where independent financing…

Documentarian Scott Kirschenbaum joins us this week to talk about his life as a documentary filmmaker, how he goes about finding stories that will change his life and how he captured a woman giving b…

Rick Bosner joins us to talk about how he makes a living as a filmmaker including work as a line producer on Fruitvale Station and Executive Producer on Other People. And he explains why you don't ha…

This week we have filmmaker extraordinaire Rob Richert on the show to give us a nice overview of his career on his filmmaker, covering film festivals, directing philosophies and being ready to pivot …

Timothy is back from his shoot in Chile and Alrik just wrapped his four day documentary style shoot. We wing a conversation about what's next for our feature films and share some inspiration from Gar…

Timothy is in Santiago Chile shooting a commercial and Alrik is working on a four day doc style shoot, so the guys talk about how their prep is going and how it kind of sucks that they have both been…

Timothy and Alrik decompress from their experience recording the crossover episode with the Just Shoot It Podcast.

A crossover episode with fellow filmmaking podcasters, Matt Enlow and Oren Kaplan of the Just Shoot It Podcast! We talk about our lives as directors but really quickly get into a discussion of why we…