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The goal of this show is to teach you exciting new ways to make more money while still having plenty of time and money left over to create all the amazing movies you’ve ever dreamed of making!

We’ll be interviewing wildly successful entrepreneurs and amazing movie making filmmakers to figure out the best ways to make a lot of money and the best ways to use that money to create great films.

Check out http://anxiousfilmmaker.com/ for videos of the 10 best moments from the episode.

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Our guest today is Seth Savoy (@SethSavoy). This year, Savoy will make his feature film debut with the upcoming crime drama "Echo Boomers" by Saban Films.

The film, which stars two-time Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon and Alex Pettyfer , follows indebted college graduate Lance Zutterland who is pulled into an underground operation in Chicago in which his peers fight the system by stealing from the rich. Led by Mel Donnelly played by Michael Shannon, the group leave behind a trail of destruction before Lance realizes he is in over his head with no way out.

Set in 2013, Savoy was inspired to pen the script after local headlines of similar break-ins in the Chicago area surfaced. He eventually took the script to the Sundance Film Festival in 2015, where he won an independent pitch competition and captured the industry's attention. "Echo Boomers" will be released in select theaters, on-demand, and digital on November 13, 2020. Please watch it and leave a review on Rotten Tomatoes

1:00 Editing your first feature

5:30 Theater nerd to full ride at Columbia

10:30 Most important mentor: John Hancock (“Bang The Drum Slowly”)

12:20 Top 3 pieces of advice from John

14:15 Directing isn’t directing

17:30 Working with Michael Shannon

24:30 Example of a bad note

31:20 Genesis of “Echo Boomers” story

41:00 Winning Sundance

44:30 Sticking to your guns to find investors

51:00 The casting process

57:00 Paying actors

1:02:00 Casting and scheduling takes the longest

1:09:30 Watch 150 movies, screenshot and save it

1:11:30 Finding the key crew

1:20:30 Production

1:30:00 Maintaining sanity on set

1:39:30 Post production - assembly cut is always going to suck

1:53:00 Working towards?

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