Making Movies is HARD!!!: The Struggles of Indie Filmmaking

This week Liz and Alrik talk to local independent filmmaker Eduardo Castrillo about his life of making features, from making his first feature in college to getting paid by a distributor to make a feature, we cover it all!

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This week special guest host Andrew Schrader joins Alrik to talk all things The Alternate on this very special episode of MMIH! Also Alrik gives his pitch for why you should join The Alternate Team and support the Seed and Spark Campaign!

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This week special guest host Alex Kellerman joins Alrik to talk to Davey Williams, an American actor who moved to China and spent 10 years acting in Chinese films, commercials and TV, then came back to Hollywood tackle his career in the states!

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Alrik and Liz welcome writer/director Amy Taylor to talk about her time in LA, moving back home to Virginia and how she's kept her directing/writing career going in LA from afar!

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Alrik and Liz welcome SF filmmaker Jason Ragosta to talk about ZTV! Jason tells us about his crowdfunding campaign for ZTV: Sympathy for the Devil, how he put it together and we debate the many different ways you can approach your crowdfunding campaign!

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After ten months of going it alone Alrik welcomes new full time co-host Liz Manashil to the show! Liz and Alrik spend the whole episode talking about crowdfunding, their experiences in the past and Alrik really grills Liz on all things Crowdfunding!

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After ten months of going it alone Alrik welcomes new full time co-host Liz Manashil to the show! Liz and Alrik spend the whole episode talking about crowdfunding, their experiences in the past and Alrik really grills Liz on what she thinks is the best way to approach a campaign. We go over everything from how to approach people through e-mail/social media, how to pick your perks and what to focus on in a video and much more!

Meet New Full Time Host Liz Manashil

Oh today is a big day everyone! I am so exci

This week Alrik and co-host Isaac Pingree sit down with Bay Area field Sound Mixer Jeff Dragomanovich to talk about how he got into sound as a second career, why he picked sound and how he makes a living recording sound on set in the SF Bay Area.

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This week Alrik and co-host Isaac Pingree sit down with Bay Area field Sound Mixer Jeff Dragomanovich to talk about how he got into sound as a second career, why he picked sound and how he makes a living recording sound on set in the SF Bay Area.

Meet Co-Host Isaac Pingree

It's been awhile since we did an episode with Isaac, here's his solo episode just in case you want to hear more about his background.

https://www.makingmoviesishard.com/ep195

Meet Je

This week Alrik and co-host L. Jeffrey Moore have a very special episode that started way back in November 2018. Jeff challenged Alrik to make a movie with just an iphone with zero budget.

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