The Filmmakers Podcast

SPECIAL: “Wolves of War” and making an indie war movie with editor Neil Lenthall, composer Christopher Cook & director Giles Alderson – PART II


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This is part 2 of our “Wolves of War” special. If you haven’t already, do check out part 1 as director and host of the show Giles Alderson chats with DOP Stuart Nicholas White and some of his cast including Matt Willis, Jackson Bews, Anastasia Martin and Rupert Graves. Today, he talks with his editor Neil Lenthall & composer Christopher Cook.

Neil chats about:

  • what he looks for in a project
  • the editor-director relationship
  • his editing process
  • different cuts
  • his learnings from editing Wolves of War
  • And Christopher chats about:

    • inspirations
    • composing for film
    • his process
    • composer-director relationship
    • coming up with ideas
    • how to start one’s career as a composer
    • And if you haven’t checked out the film Wolves of War yet, I don’t know what you have been doing all week long. It’s out now! And we would really appreciate your support. Do go watch it, write some lovely reviews, and give it a nice rating, it would mean the world to us. Thank you! But for now, sit back, relax and listen to our amazing chat with Neil Lenthall & Christopher Cook.

       

      WOLVES OF WAR is out now!

      At the end of WWII, a tough British officer leads a band of Allied commandos into enemy territory in Bavaria on one last impossible mission to extract an American held hostage by the Nazis.

       

      EPISODE LINKS

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      Rakuten TV: https://bit.ly/WolvesofWarRakuten

       

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      CREDITS

      The Filmmakers Podcast is hosted, produced and written by Giles Alderson @gilesalderson

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