This episode's guest is Stuart Brennan, actor, writer, director, producer and studio head.

He has established himself and his studio Stronghold with over twenty production credits including his latest film, Warlord, which is out now in the US and the UK (as well as Germany and Russia) and which stars Billy Boyd of Lord of the Rings. As well as this film, we discuss his whole career, from an early BAFTA win as an actor to working with Martin Scorsese. For the indie filmmaker, we get into how to get name actors into your film (he's worked with many established talents including Sophie Skelton, Jonathan Rhys-Davies and Rutger Hauer), and how he's developed his own studio in the model of old Hollywood. We also talk about distribution, marketing, the perils of piracy, and the importance of showing independent films some love on IMDb and other review sites.

Merchandise:

You can buy screen accurate costumes and other goodies from Stronghold on Etsy.

Stuart also recommends this Elven Mead and Elven Rum both of which are official tie-ins with Warlord.