This week Timothy and Alrik welcome North Carolina Filmmaker Evan Kidd to the show to talk about his independent filmmaking experience and how he made his first feature narrative, 'Son of Clowns'.

You might not always (or ever) get the results you want with your film. How do you survive?

What's it feel like to premiere your film on-line and at a film festival? Find out with the premiere of Alrik's short film "Brother"

Many filmmakers think there's an easy path to making it big. This week, we discuss winning the filmmaking lottery. Is it really as simple as entering contests and festivals, getting noticed, and starting your career?

This week Timothy and Alrik talk about the balance between the artistic and business side of being a filmmaker.

We talk with special guest Lisa Donato about starting her career in LA and why she decided to move to Austin, TX. Plus lots of talk about diversity and patriarchal society.

This week we discuss the new Ghostbusters remake and what we think, we get some directing advice from William Friedkin from Marc Maron's WTF podcast and give our thoughts, and we discuss how we use playback and why we think it's important.

This week we talk about what makes a good Kickstarter campaign

This week we talk about Timothy's latest commercial, comparing yourself to your peers, and we give our thoughts on a listener's short film

We're breaking format this week to talk about a few smaller topics. First is where to put the camera. Then we have a clip from Roger Deakins about lenses. And finally, we theorize on how Quentin Tarantino gets such great performances from his actors.