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How to Pitch to Film Investors & Demystifying Film Finance, SEIS, EIS, Tax Credits, Recoupment & SPV's on your indie films with Tony Cook, Zak Fenning & Giles Alderson

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Directing and writing 'Whalefall' – Brian Duffield & Daniel Kraus on Cinematic Constraints

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The Academy Masterclasses: Directing 'Tenzing' with Jennifer Peedom & Actress Thinley Lhamo

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Street Fighter Director Kitao Sakurai on Bringing Arcade Chaos to the Big Screen

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Directing Brad Pitt in 'Heart of the Beast' | David Ayer (Fury, Training Day) Returns to TFP

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From 'One Day' to Feature Debut: Molly Manners & Producer Sarah Brocklehurst on Adapting Short Stories, Sundance and Making 'Extra Geography'

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George MacKay on Sense and Sensibility, Wardrobe Malfunctions & an Acting Masterclass | TFP Mini-Ep

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Directing Sense and Sensibility: Georgia Oakley & Fiona Shaw on the BIG 2nd Feature, the Reality of Period Filmmaking & Cinematic Rigour

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Bad Apples: Jonatan Etzler on Nailing the Pitch, Transitioning to Features, 17 Shorts, Character Arcs & His English-Language Debut starring Saoirse Ronan

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The Business of Film Special: The Hidden UK Indie Boom, Sales Agents & Surviving the Distribution & Box Office Market

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Directing PRACTICAL MAGIC 2: Susanne Bier on Magic, Studio Sequels & A-List Casts + Giles Announces his latest project

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Dexter Fletcher on Indie Debuts to Studio Blockbusters: Rocketman, Ghosted & Directing Action [From the Vault]

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Writing, Producing & Directing Bella Ramsey & Neil Patrick Harris: George Jaques on Sunny Dancer & The Second Feature Film Hustle

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Directing Nimrods: Indie Filmmaking Realities with director and writer Lee Kirk on his Punk Rock Road Trip movie

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From Sitcoms to Feature Films: Screenwriting Secrets with Sean Clements & Directing Tips with Josh Greenbaum as they discuss new comedy 'The Dink'

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The Female Film Club Takeover: Emmy-Winning CD Olissa Rogers & Golden Globe Foundation's Miriam Spritzer chat to FFC hosts Liza van der Smissen & Nicole Lieberman

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Actors Common & Alexandria Riley talk Silo, On-Set Collaboration, Identity, Conflict, & Show Runner Graham Yost

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Shooting F1: Jerry Bruckheimer & Eddy Cue on Brad Pitt, Practical Racing, and Apple's Blockbuster Vision

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Surviving Indie Film Weather & Financing: Morgan Matthews Breaks Down the Making of '500 Miles'

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Directing Indie Folk Horror: Alex Noyer on Funding, 40% Tax Rebates, Two-Camera Setups, Ensemble Casts and his latest indie film 'Love is The Monster'

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The New Rules of Hollywood AI: Jonathan Yunger on Billion-Dollar Slates, Streamer-Approved AI, Arcana Labs and John Rambo

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How to Direct A-List Talent: Ol Parker on Office Romance, Rom-Coms, Rejection & Set Etiquette

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Business of Film: The New Rules of Film Financing: AI, Gen Z, and Getting Your Movie Made | What we learnt from Cannes and What Movie Distributors Actually Want!

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From Shorts to Docs to Features with Oscar Winner Daniel Roher on Directing Leo Woodall & Dustin Hoffman in 'Tuner'

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The Making of RIVALS: Mega-Episode with Alex Hassell, Nafessa Williams, Katherine Parkinson, Bella Maclean & diretor Elliot Hegarty & writer Laura Wade on the Disney+ Hit

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Joanne Mitchell: From Acting to Producing Indies to Directing 'Broken Bird', Shooting in Serbia & The Actor-Director Relationship

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David Frankel: Directing The Devil Wears Prada, Casting Emily Blunt & Trusting Actors

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How to Self-Finance & Distribute an Indie Thriller you shot in 8 days - 'Empire of Lies' with Matthew Hope & Joseph Millson

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Brian Cox: The Acting Legend on Directing His Debut Feature Glenrothan, Acting, Directing and Editing Secrets & Trusting Your Crew

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How a low budget Indie Horror became an A24 Box Office Smash: Ian Tuason on 'Undertone', audio horror & landing 'Paranormal Activity 8'

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From a $150k Indie to making massive Box Office Hits, Directing Rom-Coms & Making 'You, Me & Tuscany' with Kat Coiro and Will Packer

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Aaron Taylor-Johnson & David Mackenzie: The Making of FUZE & Acting and Directing Without Rules

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Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett on Ready or Not 2, Scream, and Directing as a Duo

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How to Direct Romance & Drama: Vanessa Caswill on Adapting a Bestseller 'Reminders of Him'

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RE-RELEASE 'Hamnet' Producer Liza Marshall on How to Produce TV dramas with Temple, Riviera, Taboo

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Episode 500 Special! Filmmaking Advice: Audience Q&A, IndieFilm determination & Director Secrets with Giles Alderson, Dom Lenoir and Phil Hawkins

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Steven Knight & Hannah Walters: Creating A Thousand Blows, Peaky Blinders & Boiling Point

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Making a microbudget indiefilm, Crowdfunding to Apple TV: The Story of 'Time Rewind' with writer-director Lincoln Fenner & actor Tim Cullingworth-Hudson

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How Bart Layton Turned a Novella into an 85% Rotten Tomatoes Hit with latest feature film Crime 101

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The Nun Director Corin Hardy: From Music Videos to Sundance to Hollywood Horror 'WHISTLE'

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SEND HELP: Sam Raimi (Evil Dead), Zainab Azizi & actor Dylan O’Brien on creating an Original Thriller for Cinema

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Making the BAFTA-Nominated 'I SWEAR': Producers Piers Tempest & Georgia Bayliff + Director Kirk Jones

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Oppenheimer, Mercy & The Dark Knight trilogy producer Chuck Roven: From humble begginings to Winning the Oscar.

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The Reality of Low-Budget Filmmaking: Making "A Gangster's Life" with Tony Cook & Zak Fenning

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Nia DaCosta: Directing 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple & Taking Over from Danny Boyle

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Paul Schrader: 'Taxi Driver' & 'Raging Bull' writer on Screenwriting, Directing and shooting his latest film Oh, Canada in Just 17 Days.

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Hikari: Directing Brendan Fraser in Rental Family & Creating Netflix's Beef PLUS Award Season Discussion

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James L. Brooks: Directing Ella McCay, The Simpsons, Emma Mackey & Writing Honest Dialogue

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What will 2026 hold for Filmmakers | XMAS QUIZ | Industry Insights with your HOSTS

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The Duffer Brothers: Creating STRANGER THINGS, Directing the Finale, and Surviving Hollywood Rejection

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How to Write, Produce, Direct and Star in your own micro budget movie. Mark Hampton talks Unlicensed

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How to Sell and Distribute Your Film with Sales Agent Itzchak Maghen

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Kristen Stewart: Directing Her Feature Debut AND Imogen Poots on the Craft of Acting & Adaptation in The Chronology of Water

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NOAH BAUMBACH: Directing George Clooney & Adam Sandler in "Jay Kelly" | Directing Process & Working with actors

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Michael Shannon & James Vanderbilt: The Craft of Directing and Acting the "Nuremberg" Trials

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From Sundance to Netflix: The Making of Train Dreams with Felicity Jones, Kerry Condon, Clint Bentley & Joel Edgerton

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EDGAR WRIGHT: The Running Man Director on Writing & Directing Indie Blockbusters (Baby Driver, Scott Pilgrim & The Cornetto Trilogy)

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Riz Ahmed: The Art of Acting - From Oscar Winner to Relay's Silent Fixer

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Director DAVID MACKENZIE: From Starred Up to Hell or High Water to his latest movie Relay starring Riz Ahmed & Lily James

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CHANNING TATUM & KIRSTEN DUNST and director DEREK CIANFRANCE: Talk, Acting, Directing, 'ROOFMAN'

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Jason Clarke, Haley Bennett, Dominic Cooper and showrunner Jon Bokenkamp talk The Last Frontier

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Making an Micro Budget, Award Wining indie film 'Signs of Life' with minimal crew: Director & writer Joseph Millson

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BENNY SAFDIE (Uncut Gems): Directing Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson in THE SMASHING MACHINE plus filmmaking tips.

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Nicky Bentham & Suhayla El-Bushra on Their Powerful New Film 'Brides' Producing & Screenwriting on Challenging Narratives of Indie Filmmaking.

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Making a feature film for under 250k in 7 days with 'TAPE's Bizhan Tong and Stephen Belber

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Willem Dafoe & Nadia Latif talk 'The Man in My Basement'

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How to write and direct comedy features with ‘Poor Things’ Writer Tony McNamara & ‘Austin Powers’ Director Jay Roach: 'The Roses'

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Sir Ben Kingsley & Chris Colombus: From Sexy Beast to Harry Potter to The Thursday Murder Club!

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Ari Aster: Hereditary, Midsommar & Beau is Afraid writer-director on making A24's Eddington

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Creativity, Burnout & Mental Health in Filmmaking with Matt Follows, Dom Lenoir & Conor Boru

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Making an indie film for under 100k! Director and writer Tony Burke and Actor & Exec Craig Russell talk making PROTEIN

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LIVE from The Funny Life Film Festival - Join Giles Alderson & Dom Lenoir as they are chat How to Make a Feature with Hillary Shakespeare, Mitchell Tolliday, Holger Borggrefe, Mel Harris and Stephen Cookson

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Fantastic 4 Director Matt Shakman and Actor Ralph Ineson chat with Conor Boru and Francis Annan

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Toby Kebbell, Bjorn Franklin and Jonny Marchetta talk 'Salvable' and how they made their incredible debut movie with Toby and Shia LaBeouf starring.

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Neil Marshall & Liz Farahadi on short film-making, short film festival submissions, SohoLIFF and making their short film 'Keep Young and Beautiful'

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Destry Allyn Spielberg on Making Your Debut indie film 'Please Don't Feed the Children' as a director

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Jerry Bruckheimer & Joseph Kosinski join Stephen Followers to talk F1, Brad Pitt, AI, Action, Race Cars and making movies!!

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'We Live in Time', 'Boy A' & 'Brooklyn' writer & director John Crowley on casting, storytelling and creative vision.

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Director Aylin Tezel talks making her debut feature film Falling into Place

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Jai Courtney and Sean Byrne talk making indie feature Dangerous Animals, acting, directing and sharks!

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Business of Film: Cannes, Festivals, Indie Films, AI and Trumps' Tariffs and the QUIZ. Join Giles Alderson, Enfys Dickinson, Dom Lenoir and Stephen Follows for this SPECIAL Ep

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Waypoint Entertainment's Ken Kao on Producing Hollywood Movies with Ryan Gosling from The Favourite to The Nice Guys

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Rosie Fellner & Ross Clarke on Indie Filmmaking, Financing, Sales & Cinema Distribution of their produced feature The Uninvited.

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Making an indie feature on a shoe string budget with Mitchell Tolliday, Lauren Cornelius and Neil Rickatson on Murder Ballads

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Gareth Evans - 'Havoc', 'The Raid' and 'Gangs of London' Director and writer on his process

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'The Amateur': Shooting an Action Thriller around the world with director James Hawes & actress Caitríona Balfe

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Natalie Dormer & Ami Mann on making the indie feature 'Audrey's Children'

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Making successful Comedy Features in 2025 with "You're Cordially Invited" & "Back in Action" writer-directors Nicholas Stoller & Seth Gordon

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Companion: Crafting a smart genre blend with Writer-Director Drew Hancock & Editors Brett W. Bachman & Josh Ethier

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ADOLESCENCE: Creating the new Netflix One-Take hit series with actors Stephen Graham & Erin Doherty, director Philip Barantini & writer Jack Thorne

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'Casino Royal', 'The Legend of Zorro' director Martin Campbell on how to shoot big budget action films and his latest 'Cleaner’

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Food For Thought: Why make a passion project documentary and give it away for FREE with Giles Alderson & Dan Richardson

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Small Things Like These & Peaky Blinders Director Tim Mielants on collaborating with Cillian Murphy and making movie and TV magic

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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy director Michael Morris on Bridget, Tone and Making TV and Film

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MAKING OF 'September 5' cast & writer-director SPECIAL with Peter Sarsgaard, Leonie Benesch, Ben Chaplin, John Magaro & Tim Fehlbaum

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Zoë Saldaña, ‘Emilia Pérez’, Juliette Welfling and Oscar-longlisted short film ‘Dovecote’ dir Marco Perego

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Guy Pearce on Acting, On set tips, Working with Directors and 'The Brutalist'

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The Brutalist writer-director Brady Corbet & production designer Judy Becker on making an Oscar-nominated epic

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From 'Director Jail' to Blockbuster Movies with Nick Hamm, director & writer of William Tell, White Lines and The Hole

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From Editing to Making Amazon Prime Directorial Debut with 'Unstoppable' director William Goldenberg

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