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

This week Alrik and co-host Liz Anderson sit down with writer/director Rob Smat to talk about his new film, The Last Whistle! Rob is a graduate of USC and he talks through the making of his first feature and how he made it for $100k!

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This week Alrik and co-host Isaac Pingree sit down with writer director Andrew Stephen Lee to talk about his experience as a graduate of the Columbia Film program and the making/release of his latest short film, Manila is Full of Men Named Boy!

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This week Alrik and co-host Colin Levy sit down with writer director Searit Huluf and Producer Tiajha Nakahara to talk about the making of their upcoming short film, Gamers!

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This week Alrik and co-host Colin Levy sit down with animator, pre-viz artist and filmmaker, Michael Cawood! Michael breaks down how pre-viz is done on big budget features and gives us a breakdown of his work on a famous scene from FF7!

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This week Alrik and co-host Andrew Schrader catch up for the first time in over 6 months!

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This week Alrik and co-host L. Jeffrey Moore talk to Write/Director Hassan Said and stars Briana Walsh and Jordan Potch about the making of their one take feature, This Is Your Song! We sat down with these three filmmakers the day after they wrapped principal photography so get ready for a lively and exciting discussion of how they made this film happen!

Meet Hassan Said

You may remember Hassan from one of our early episodes, all the way back in the first year of the podcast on episode 46!

http://www.makingmoviesishard.com/episode-46-hassan-said/

Here's Hassan's bio, just in case.

Hassan was born in Egypt, moved to New York at 15 and then came to San Francisco for college (Academy of Art). He interned at Goodby Silverstein & Partners where he met Timothy. After graduating college, crewed on some SF based productions like Milk and Trauma before deciding to move to Los Angeles. He moved to LA 5-years ago to pursue his dream. Armed with 10 short films that have played at more than 50 festivals, Hassan still struggles to find producers to help him get his films made. He pays the bills by freelancing as an editor or production coordinator, he’s also an actor and does some photography work. 

Meet Co-Host L. Jeffrey Moore

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

https://www.makingmoviesishard.com/ep188

Wrapping their first Feature!

Hassan, Briana, Jordan and Jeff talk about wrapping the shoot for 'This is Your Song'!

Preparing for This Is Your Song

Hassan, Briana and Jordan talk about their process for prepping for This is Your Song.

The Importance of Film

At some point Hassan and the group drop into a deep discussion of the difference between a film and a movie.

Find Out More About This is Your Song!

https://www.facebook.com/thisisyoursongfilm

https://www.hassansaid.com/thisisyoursong

Special Thanks to Jonathan Kittrell for Editing this Episode!

This is Jonathan's second episode, you can check him out at @jkittrell94

Jonathan is also an author, check out his books on amazon!

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This week Alrik and co-host Winnie Wong talk to LA Cinematographer Ava Benjamin Shorr about making the move from shooting shorts to long form content.

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This week Alrik and co-host Liz Manashil welcome special guest Justin Warren to talk about making and releasing his first feature film, Then There Was Joe. Justin talks about how he set the value of his movie and turned down multiple distribution offers.

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This week Alrik and co-host Andrew Schrader welcome filmmaker/editor/writer Jordan Harris to the show for part 2 of their discussion.

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This week Alrik and co-host Andrew Schrader welcome filmmaker/editor/writer Jordan Harris to the show! Jordan is currently working as the story editor on a top secret Cartoon Network show and he gives us the low down on the writing process for animation!

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