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The Honest Filmmaker — 137 episodes

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

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

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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

5

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

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

7

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

8

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

9

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

10

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

11

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

12

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

13

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

14

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

15

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

18

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

19

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

22

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

23

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

24

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

27

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

31

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

32

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

34

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

35

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

36

Crowd Funding Masterclass with Melissa Center

37

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

50

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

69

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

83

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

84

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

85

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

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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

105

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

107

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

112

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

113

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

114

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

120

How to Direct a Hollywood Movie with Clive Tonge

121

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

123

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

126

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

127

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

128

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

129

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

131

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

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How to be a Professional Puppeteer with Olly Taylor

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

134

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

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How to be a Published Author with Bev Sanford

136

How to be a Successful Freelance Filmmaker with Jake Hawkins

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Introducing - The Honest Filmmaker Podcast