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The Honest Filmmaker — 143 episodes

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Building an Animation Career, AI, and the Future of the Industry with Tom Box

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From Commercial Director to Feature Filmmaker | Lessons from Making Kangaroo Island

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10 Filmmaking Truths That Will Save You Years with Pat Higgins

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Don't Wait for Permission. Make the Feature Film with Alex Alessi

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Building The Lonely Crowd: A First Feature Film Journey

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AI, Copyright and the Future of Filmmaking with Jonathan Yunger

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From No Film School to a 5 Day Feature Film | Evan Marcewicz

8

Why AI Faces a Filmmaker Backlash - Micro Budget Horror and Film Financing with Daniel J. Pico

9

Making a Micro Budget Horror Film: Black & White, Filmhub & Indie Film Survival | Zoe Carol & Daya Dodds

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Can Micro Budget Films Still Work? Funding, Profit & Distribution

11

Indie Film Distribution, Micro Budget Horror & Surviving Independent Filmmaking with Austin Galante

12

From YouTube Film School to Directing Indie Features & Series with Beasy Jones

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Inside the Business of Indie Film: What ‘Cheat’ Taught Us About Distribution, Revenue & Reality

14

Micro-Budget Action, Hong Kong Stunts & Filmmaking Reality – with Bruce Fontaine

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One Man, One Film: How Matt Simpson Made Disremembered Completely Solo

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What It Really Takes to Make Your First Feature Film with Shawn Goolsby

17

From Indie Hustle to Film Machine - Steve Love on Budget, Mistakes & Distribution

18

The Business of Storytelling: Practical Wisdom for Screenwriters (From Spec to Screen)

19

High Concept, Micro Budget: Making Bears on a Ship with Eduardo Castrillo

20

From First Film to Franchise: Ramon “Swift” Sloan on Indie Filmmaking

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Making a Feature on Weekends: Tobias Jon on Gifted Pain

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How to make money from your short films with ZB Siwek

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Surviving Your First Indie Feature Film - From Dog Soldiers to Director with Craig Conway

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Audience, Budget & Distribution - Building your Indie Film Career with Devon Bray

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How to Sell your Movie to HBO - with Stefan Van De Graaf

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Directing Your First Micro-Budget Feature Film with Jessica Boss

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How to Self-Distribute a Micro-Budget Feature Film with Alex Srednoselac

28

How to Fund a Micro-Budget Movie: 5 Practical Financing Strategies

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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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Is Filmhub's Relay the future of Indie Film Streaming? With Chad Wittman

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Making your Debut Indie Feature Film with Jon Hill

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No Risk, No Reward - Micro Budget Filmmaking with Justin Phillip

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The Indie Filmmaking Rollercoaster - The Blade Cuts Deeper with Gene Dolders

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Write it, Shoot it, Survive it - The Art of Getting It Done

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10 Things you should never do when making your first feature film

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How to finance your Horror film from grants and funding bodies

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16 Mistakes that Indie Filmmakers make... from my own Painful Experience

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Indie Filmmaking Essentials - Everything I learned from making The Apocalypse Box

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Everything you need to know about Directing Indie Film with Andrea M. Catinella

40

How to Make a Horror Movie with Erin Aine & Kyle Valle

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Turn your Short into a Feature film with Hillary Shakespeare & Chris Reading

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Crowd Funding Masterclass with Melissa Center

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Should your Micro Budget Feature be a Passion Project? with Alexandru Borchescu

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How to Shoot a Gritty Gangster Flick - Michael Head’s Indie Gangster Blueprint

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How to Make Your First Feature Film with Jim Eaves

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How to make a Profitable Low Budget Movies on Tubi in 2025 with Justin Milton

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Breaking into Indie Film Directing with William Kaufman

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How to Make Feature Films on a Micro Budget with Andy Edwards

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How to get your Micro Budget Short Film into festivals with Nathan Benham

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How to Work with Actors on a Micro Budget Indie Feature

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How to Direct an Episode of Black Mirror with Carl Tibbetts

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The Benefits of Shooting an Indie Feature on Film with Ian Diaz

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How to make a Successful Short Film with Vincent Wrenn DOP

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The Indie Filmmaker’s Survival Guide: 20 Things I wish I knew when I started

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How to Make an Indie Feature Film with Michael Marco

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Brutally Honest Truths about Film Distribution

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Film Hub 2025 update special with Jason Horton

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How to be a Composer for Minecraft with Crispin Hands

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Micro Budget Movie Masterclass - Film hub and Tubi - with Jason Park

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How to Start Making your Micro Budget Feature with Daniel Talbott & Andrew Klaus-Vineyard

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How to get a Famous Actor in your £30k Micro Budget Feature with Mitchell Tolliday

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Funding, Filming & Finding an Audience - Micro Budget Movie Hustle with Jake C. Young

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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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Indie Film Marketing Masterclass with Jim Fredrick

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How to sell your film direct to Distributors with Marc Marriott

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How to write a Kurt Cobain Biography with Kelly Catlin

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How to Make a Feature Film for $10,000 with Sean & Taylor King

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How to get your Debut Feature Film into Cinemas

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Getting a Distributor to Fund your Micro Budget Film with Joseph Mbah

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How to be a Controversial Filmmaker with Uwe Boll

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Can You Finance an Indie Film Using Cryptocurrency?

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Packaging your film for Investors with Rosa Camero

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What Wedding Videos taught me about Filmmaking - Insights with Victor Hughes

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The Truth about Film Distribution with Rosa Camero

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How to be a Television Director with Jon East

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How to make a Micro Budget Action Indie Feature with James Couche

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From Iconic Movie VFX to Writing & Directing with John Schlag

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How to get your Indie Feature on Apple TV + with Tiffany Kim Stevens

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How to Make a Micro Budget Giallo Inspired Feature Film with Gene Dolders

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How to Direct a Movie for Shudder with Josh Forbes

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Careers, Indie Filmmaking Trends and Highlights of 2024

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How to shoot and release a Christmas film at the Cinema with Eric Wong

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Genre Rebels - Telling Stories that don't fit the Formula with Lorissa & C.J. Julianus

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Writing, Acting, Directing & Producing your First Feature with Dzifa Mallet

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Turn your Micro Budget Feature into a Directing Career with Joshua Caldwell

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Indie Film Marketing & Reaching your Audience with Chris Nials

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Was AFM worth it? - Two Indie Filmmakers Perspective with Henry Winnik & Lucas Rios

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Using Data & Statistics to be a Better Filmmaker with Stephen Follows

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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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How to be a Netflix Cinematographer with Benedict Spence - D.O.P on ERIC and This is going to hurt

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How to Crack Social Media with your Indie Film with Chris Mayo aka Big Fat Cult

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From The Black List to Fright Fest with Darren Geare

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How to Direct Stop Motion Movies for Aardman with Will Becher

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From Fright Fest to Film Hub with Georgia Conlan and Martin Hardwick- Charlotte the Movie

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Short Films - Funding, Shooting & Film Festivals with Hakim Zziwa

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How to be a Hollywood Costume Designer with Cynthia Summers

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How to Release your Debut Feature Film - Amazon Prime, YouTube Movies & Google Play

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Doctor Who, Marvel & Mission Impossible - Production Design with Phil Sims

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How to have a career in Television and Theatre - The actors dream with Tom Butcher

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How to Kickstart your Creative Career with Sam Hornsby from ERIC the Creative Career App

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How to be a successful Soap Actor with Corrinne Wicks

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How to turn a Short Film into a Television Career with Jamie Donoughue

103

How to make a Profitable Low Budget Movies on Tubi with Justin Milton

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How to have a Career in Visual Effects with Harry Potter Visual Effects Supervisor Christian Manz

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How to get 200,000 Streams on a Bigfoot Movie - Micro Budget Masterclass with Mitch Laing

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How to Boost your Film's Exposure - proven strategies with Amy Guth

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How to get your movie into Sundance with Producer Isen Robbins

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How to win an Oscar for Sound Design with Nina Hartstone

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How to be a successful television director with Andrew Gunn

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How to write a Commercial Screenplay with Lucy V. Hay

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How to be a Concept Artist with John Gallagher AKA Uncannyknack

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How to release a Low Budget film - Theatrical and Streaming with Gabriel Foster Prior

113

Cannes Film Festival & Sales Market 2024 Report from Mark Hampton - Marche Du Film, Palais

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What is Virtual Production? with Phil Griffiths from Framesync

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How to be a Radio Presenter with Aryana Neo - Presenting, Acting and Confidence tips

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How to be a Working Actor with Mark Hampton

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Cannes Film Festival Survival Guide - Prep, Parties, Receptions & Networking

118

Fright Fest Special with Paul McEvoy - One of the UK's biggest and brightest thriller, fantasy and horror film festivals

119

How to be a Fight Choreographer with Brahim Chab - Monkey Man, Dev Patel

120

How to be a Celebrity Stylist & Fashion Consultant with Wilfree Vasquez Torres

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From Short Films to The Industry with Gabriel Miller

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How to be an Ethical Filmmaker with Benn Wiebe

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How to Make a Living as a DOP - Director of Photography with Andrew Rodger

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Classic Movie Make Up SFX with seasoned pro Rob Burman

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How to make money on Film Hub with Jason Horton

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How to Direct a Hollywood Movie with Clive Tonge

127

How to Promote your Independent Film - Marketing Strategy with Rosa Camero

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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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How to Sell a Film - Navigating Sales Agents and Distributors as a Filmmaker

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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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How to Crowd Fund your feature film with Writer/Director MJ Dixon - Career advice from successful crowd funder

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How to be a Marvel Studios Make Up SFX Artist with Jon Moore - Career Advice from Creatives

133

How to be a Commercial Drone Pilot - Get your license and start working paid gigs

134

Film Industry Myths Busted - What Film Students are often told - debunking some common misconceptions about the film industry.

135

BAFTA Winning Secrets: Kids TV Production Insights | The Honest Filmmaker Podcast

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How to be a Sound Recordist with with THE MEG 2 Production Sound Mixer Rob Entwistle

137

Festivals, Talent Labs and Dealing with Sales Agents with Writer/Director Graham Hughes

138

How to be a Professional Puppeteer with Olly Taylor

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How to get your Script Optioned with writer/director Pat Higgins

140

How Film Sales & Distribution Works with Head of Acquisitions Ross Boyask

141

How to be a Published Author with Bev Sanford

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How to be a Successful Freelance Filmmaker with Jake Hawkins

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Introducing - The Honest Filmmaker Podcast