Indie Film Lab

On Episode Ten of IFL, I sat down with Lesley Saliwonchyk a veteran producer of Animation. We did a broad overview of how Animation works from development through distribution.

The Harold Greenberg Fund/Le Fonds Harold Greenberg is a national funding organization that supports the development of Canadian dramatic feature films. Since 1986, they have invested almost $84 million in the Canadian film and television industry. That’s over 3,892 projects.

On Episode Eight, Brendan speaks with Dan Bekerman, Producer of such movies as The Husband, Bang Bang Baby and The Witch about his career thus far as a producer and service producer.

On episode seven of the podcast, Brendan sits down with Line Producer and Production Manager Chris Hatcher to go over what it takes to do the job and best practices for running a production. 

Chris has line produced feature films including Cast No Shadows, The Husband and is now the Canadian Producer/ Line Producer of ShadowHunters.

On episode six of the podcast, Brendan sits down with Allie Elwell, Unit Publicist for The Crown, Penny Dreadful, Hannibal (among other shows) to discuss what it takes to be a Unit Publicist and how creators can ensure they're putting their best foot forward with their projects.

On Episode Five of Indie Film Lab, Brendan sits down with Peter Huang and Evan Landry, two thirds of the creative team behind "5 Films about Technology" a BravoFact funded Short film which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and Sundance Film Festival as well as Online via The New Yorker Magazine. As if that wasn't cool enough, they're also screening before every US screening of the Indie Monster Movie, Colossal starring Anne Hathaway.

On episode four, Brendan speaks with Rachel Feldbloom-Wood and Norma Garcia, Grant Administrator and Content Coordinator for BravoFact about how the fund works and best practices for applying

Brendan sits down with veteran tv and film producer David Brady aka his Dad to discuss his forty year career.

On episode two of Indie Film Lab, Brendan sits down with Hannah Cheesman, co-creator/writer, producer and actor of the IPF funded web series, Whatever, Linda to go over her experience of working with the IPF

On the very first episode of Indie Film Lab, Brendan sits down with Andra Sheffer, CEO of the Independent Production Fund to go over what makes a succesful application.