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The Honest Filmmaker — 128 episodes

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

2

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

3

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

4

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

5

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

6

Making a Feature on Weekends: Tobias Jon on Gifted Pain

7

How to make money from your short films with ZB Siwek

8

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

9

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

10

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

11

Directing Your First Micro-Budget Feature Film with Jessica Boss

12

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

13

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

14

How to be a full time Filmmaker - Building a Micro Budget Movie Career with Gugu E. Michaels

15

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

16

Making your Debut Indie Feature Film with Jon Hill

17

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

18

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

19

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

20

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

21

How to finance your Horror film from grants and funding bodies

22

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

23

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

24

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

25

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

26

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

27

Crowd Funding Masterclass with Melissa Center

28

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

29

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

30

How to Make Your First Feature Film with Jim Eaves

31

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

32

Breaking into Indie Film Directing with William Kaufman

33

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

34

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

35

How to Work with Actors on a Micro Budget Indie Feature

36

How to Direct an Episode of Black Mirror with Carl Tibbetts

37

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

38

How to make a Successful Short Film with Vincent Wrenn DOP

39

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

40

How to Make an Indie Feature Film with Michael Marco

41

Brutally Honest Truths about Film Distribution

42

Film Hub 2025 update special with Jason Horton

43

How to be a Composer for Minecraft with Crispin Hands

44

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

45

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

46

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

47

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

48

How to have an Acting Career in L.A. with Kerstin Schulze on The Honest Filmmaker Podcast

49

Indie Film Marketing Masterclass with Jim Fredrick

50

How to sell your film direct to Distributors with Marc Marriott

51

How to write a Kurt Cobain Biography with Kelly Catlin

52

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

54

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

55

How to be a Controversial Filmmaker with Uwe Boll

56

Can You Finance an Indie Film Using Cryptocurrency?

57

Packaging your film for Investors with Rosa Camero

58

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

59

The Truth about Film Distribution with Rosa Camero

60

How to be a Television Director with Jon East

61

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

62

From Iconic Movie VFX to Writing & Directing with John Schlag

63

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

64

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

65

How to Direct a Movie for Shudder with Josh Forbes

66

Careers, Indie Filmmaking Trends and Highlights of 2024

67

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

68

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

69

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

70

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

71

Indie Film Marketing & Reaching your Audience with Chris Nials

72

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

73

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

74

What to expect from the American Film Market and how to write, fund, shoot and sell your debut feature film with Tom Malloy

75

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

76

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

77

From The Black List to Fright Fest with Darren Geare

78

How to Direct Stop Motion Movies for Aardman with Will Becher

79

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

80

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

81

How to be a Hollywood Costume Designer with Cynthia Summers

82

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

83

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

84

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

85

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

86

How to be a successful Soap Actor with Corrinne Wicks

87

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

88

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

89

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

90

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

91

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

92

How to get your movie into Sundance with Producer Isen Robbins

93

How to win an Oscar for Sound Design with Nina Hartstone

94

How to be a successful television director with Andrew Gunn

95

How to write a Commercial Screenplay with Lucy V. Hay

96

How to be a Concept Artist with John Gallagher AKA Uncannyknack

97

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

98

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

99

What is Virtual Production? with Phil Griffiths from Framesync

100

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

101

How to be a Working Actor with Mark Hampton

102

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

103

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

104

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

105

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

106

From Short Films to The Industry with Gabriel Miller

107

How to be an Ethical Filmmaker with Benn Wiebe

108

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

109

Classic Movie Make Up SFX with seasoned pro Rob Burman

110

How to make money on Film Hub with Jason Horton

111

How to Direct a Hollywood Movie with Clive Tonge

112

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

113

How to be a Big Budget Stunt Performer with Adam Basil - To be a Stuntman or Stuntwoman

114

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

115

How to play Iconic Characters with Ross Mullan - The White Walker from HBO's Game of Thrones

116

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

117

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

118

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

119

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

120

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

121

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

122

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

123

How to be a Professional Puppeteer with Olly Taylor

124

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

125

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

126

How to be a Published Author with Bev Sanford

127

How to be a Successful Freelance Filmmaker with Jake Hawkins

128

Introducing - The Honest Filmmaker Podcast