This week on the podcast I had the chance to talk with horror exploitation filmmaker M.J. Dixon about his movies, what it's like making movies in Great Britain, the struggles of getting the take, and how to limit yourself.

I love how many filmmakers I've been able to find who truly embody this concept of low-budget, independent spirit, and MJ is now exception!

Make sure to check out all of his stuff at mycho.co.uk

Cheers! Have a great week everyone.
Josh

This week I had the pleasure of sitting down with Timothy Troy, a really talented short film director and veteran to the industry. He's work as a dolly grip on MANY really amazing features and his resume is incredibly impressive.

We discussed where our ideas come from, learning from professional film sets, exploring the concept of what actually fuels our inspiration and who we're making our movies for, where money should go when you do have some funding, Mike Flanagan, how ego can get in the way, and watching old projects.

Have a great day everyone! CHEERS!

Josh

On this weeks Low-Budget Rebels episode, I sat down with filmmaker Rachel S. Thomas-Medwid to talk about her adventures in indie filmmaking, the problem with squirrels, filmmaking with your family, trying to stay creative during the pandemic, finding your genre, and so much more. Rachel is a wealth of experience, coming from a very unconventional path into filmmaking, and I believe her story is one that will inspire a lot of you.

Make sure to check out her website: rachelspoonerthomas.com and follow her adventures to see In the Company of Crows soon!

Have a great weekend, everyone!

HEYO!
I took a week off from podcasting but I'm back now and SUPER excited to get back to work on getting new shows recorded, promoting the podcast, and hopefully making this show a little more interactive. Anyone listening probably know about speakpipe.com/lowbudgetrebels, the site you can go to and leave me audio messages to play on the show!

This weeks guest was great.
Cameron Fife has not only directed two feature films and a bunch of shorts, he's also an actor and performer, as well as working on countless music videos and other professional projects. He has a very interesting background, with a family that worked in show business and entertainment for years! We discuss what motivates us, odd film festival experiences, being told you aren't good enough, faking it til you make it, and Jordan Peele. This and much more!

Thanks, everyone, for listening!

Cheers,

Josh

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MAY 29, 2020 AT 2:38 PM

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There are only a few short days until Greywood's Plot will be screening online with the live Q&A - but I wanted to share the movie early with all my subscribers in case you aren't able to watch Sunday.

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Hey, everyone!

On this weeks podcast I was able to sit down with filmmaking couple Gina Gomez Dunn and Scott Dunn to talk about their film Mandao Returns. We discuss little tricks to improve independent films, use of props, vhs tapes, adding proper visual effects, finding funding, and learning about distribution.

This was such a fun episode and I highly recommend following Gina and Scott on social media and supporting their filmmaking endeavors in the future.

Follow Scott at @ScottyDUNNi on twitter and check out his youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/scottdunnjadedactor

Follow Gina on twitter at @GinaGomezDunn.

And make sure to check out more of their stuff and keep up to date with their new projects at dunnitfilms.com

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One of the things I love about this podcast is the variety of filmmakers I can find. Low-budget filmmaking is a diverse topic ranging from people just running and gunning, to folks running kickstarters to just get that extra little bit of cash to help bring their vision to life. I've talked to filmmakers who have been doing this half their lives and people just starting out.

This week, I had the pleasure to chat with Justin Rodriguez, a Texas based filmmaker who is early on in his career, but has a vision and eye for what he's doing that captured my imagination. We talked about the importance of forming a community, finding a rawness in your process, working with new people on every project, and kinds of art we surround ourselves with.

If you like this episode, make sure to go check out Justin's film GLOSSOLALIA on Amazon Prime and follow Justin as he continues to make movies in 2021.

Cheers,

Josh

Hey everyone,

This weeks episode I had the pleasure to chat with Vincente DiSanti about his film Never Hike Alone. We discussed the process of making a fan film, the things you can learn from working in animation, what can go wrong working with old vehicles, tricks we've learned from watching other directors, Hitchcock, and so much more.

Make sure to check out his Womp Stomp Films youtube channel!

Cheers,
Josh

This week I had the amazing opportunity to chat with exploitation filmmaker Jeremy Sumrall about why we do what we do.

His movie Pickaxe is the type of boobs and blood movie a lot of us grew up on in the 80's and he is continuing to make grindhouse style movies. We discuss everything from how covid could change indie filmmaking and film audiences, to film audio, how we got into the genre we work in, John Carpenter , and so much more!

Go check out Jeremy's work at firstweekofwinterfilms.com and check out Pickaxe on Amazon Prime!

It's Friday and I'm actually on time to post an episode on Patreon!

This week I had the pleasure to sit down and chat with Nathan Ludwig. Nathan is the film festival director of GenreBlast Film Fest, a festival I met many of my past guests at. Because Nathan was a pretty open book and is putting on a fest I truly respect, I thought he would be the perfect guest to chat with about the inner workings of festivals.

We also discuss going from being filmmaker and attending fests to starting a festival, the stress that goes along with a massive event like a film festival, what the best practices for submitting your film to a festival would be, problems festivals see with submissions, the fun of attending festivals, and so much more!

Thank you to everyone who sent in comments and questions to speakpipe.com/lowbudgetrebels! If you have anything you'd like to ask, advice for filmmakers that you have to offer, or low-budget film recommendations, don't be afraid to send 'em. I love hearing from you.

If you're a filmmaker thinking about sending your films to festivals soon, this episode might just be for you :)

CHEERS!

I had no idea what to expect from this podcast with filmmaker and producer B.J. Colangelo. I started following her on twitter a few years ago, and since then she's become one of those people that I truly look forward to seeing tweets from. She has a completely original take on things, especially horror movies - never just being negative to be negative, which she talks about in this episode.



We discuss lots of things including her overcoming cancer and realizing she wanted to make movies, starting as a film critic, the cringe writings of our youth, people saying we "wear a lot of hats", being a poor filmmaker, staying outspoken and honest, and John Waters. All of this and so much more!

Make sure to follow her on twitter @bjcolangelo. Go watch Powerbomb and all of her shorts. Check her out on imdb at https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2432090/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1#director.

Cheers and thanks for listening!