First Films

This week it's just Nate and Jake end the season just chatting with each other about everything they've learned so far over these forty episodes.  The podcast will kick off season 2 next year with tons of great interviews already in the works.

This week we talk to writer-director-actor-producer and all around multi-hyphenate about his career and his organization the International Screenwriters Association.  If you are a writer, you must listen into this one.  There is a lot of priceless info in here about writing, creativity and what it takes to get your first project off the ground.

This week we talk to Charlene Huang who is the Manager of Animated Music Production at Netflix.  Before Netflix she worked at Dreamworks creating music for huge movies like How Train Your Dragon 2, Paranorman, Kung Fu Panda 3, Trolls and Boss Baby.  We get philosophical on when to use music, the benefits and drawbacks of using needle drops & composing original music and where filmmakers can find composers.  Enjoy.  Please remember to subscribe if you haven't already and write a review.  Thanks!

This episode we talk to Film Finance professional and Entertainment Attorney Vinca Jarrett.  She tells us a bout falling into the film finance world after being an environmental lawyer, all of the things filmmakers do wrong when budgeting their films and everything you ever wanted to know about modern marketing in the Indie film world.

This week we have a great episode with Matt Miller and Ben Weissner of Vanishing Angle, arguably one of the most successful indie film production companies out there.  They've had films in South by Southwest, Sundance and Cannes.  They made See You Then which is the focus of one of our first episodes.  Take a listen to hear about making good movies on a lower budget and then go watch their new film The Beta Test this weekend wherever you download your movies.

This episode we talk to the great Nicol Paone about her comedy you can find on Netflix called Friendsgiving.  It boasts an all star cast with Malin Ackerman, Kat Dennings, Aisha Tyler, Jane Seymoure, Chelsea Peretti, Deon Cole and so many more great performers.  Ben Stiller's production company produced and our friends at Saban films distributed.  Take a listen to this episode and then go watch the movie.

This episode we talk to Director Tyler Savage about his thrillers Inheritance which you can find on Amazon Prime and Stalker which you can find on Hulu.  We talk about the creative side of filmmaking, self distribution and creative influences from working with Terrence Malick.

Listen in to this week's episode with Ryan Kampe, owner of Visit Films.  Ryan is both a producer and sales agent.  He was actually the sales agent for Sabrina Doyle's film Lorelei, which we covered on a previous episode.   So, if you haven't listened to that one, go back and play that, then come back to this one.  Ryan talks about when to get a sales agent, what a sales agent can do and what his experience is like at film festival. 

Today's episode involves interviewing Sana Soni, the director of sales at 1091 pictures, a huge distribution company. She delves into the world of distribution and how a first time filmmaker can grab the eye of some of the biggest streamers.

This week we talk to some Indie Producing legends.  Kevin Chinoy was one of the minds that brought you the cult classic show Greg The Bunny.  Francesca and Kevin produced Starlet, Tangerine, The Florida Project and Lorelei.  There are a lot of cool things I learned about all of those films and lots of incredible tips for first time filmmakers.  Enjoy!