Independent Filmmaker's Guide | IFG

Dec 11 2023 62 ep. 40 mins 1

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At IFG, we talk with industry leaders first-time filmmakers, department heads, technology experts all about filmmaking. Learn first hand from the filmmakers themselves. Be part of the community. From Development through Distribution - Steven Pierce, James Allerdyce, and Matt Mundy. How movies get made.

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A 2000+ Theatrical Screen release for "The Shift" featuring Brock Heasley and Ken Carpenter

Dec 11 2023 37 mins

Send us a textWelcome back to the Independent Filmmaker's Guide.In today's episode we speak with Director Brock Heasley and Producer Ken Carpenter, the filmmaking team behind "The Shift". With well over 2000 screens in their theatrical release, James Allerdyce takes us through the process of making this "faith adjacent" film from Angel Studios.IFG is created by Framework Production

How To Resurrect an Icon of Sexuality and Gender | The Disappearance of Shere Hite

Dec 05 2023 54 mins

Send us a textWelcome back to the Independent Filmmaker's Guide.In today's episode we dive right into a genre centrally important to so many independent filmmakers, documentary. Hosts James Allerdyce and Matt Mundy get to sit down with acclaimed director and producer Nicole Newnham and her latest film The Disappearance of Shere Hite. We are specifically looking into the techniques

How Independent Films Can Catch Fire with Ratings & Reviews | The Action/Horror Film HERD

Oct 24 2023 7 mins

Send us a textWelcome back to the Independent Filmmaker's Guide.In today's episode we dive right into one of the later challenges along the filmmaking journey - getting your film in front of your potential audience. How to actually break through with ratings and reviews in key places.The landscape is always changing and tomorrow it may be different. In the meantime, these particula

HERD U.S. Premiere & Creating The Captivating Key Art with Eric Vasquez

Oct 10 2023 52 mins

Send us a textFinding that visual anchor, the shorthand to an audience's memory for your film. This is just part of the importance as well as the difficulty of Key Art.How does it work, what is the relationship with the artist like? Or maybe you want to become a Key Artist yourself and wonder what a functional workflow should be? These are just some of the things covered in today's

Film Distribution | Malcolm Ingram's 30+ Year's Tales of Independent Filmmaking

Sep 26 2023 55 mins

Send us a textWelcome back to the Independent Filmmaker's GuideThe navigation of film distribution can be one of the more difficult parts of the filmmaker's process. From understanding deal memos, aligning expectations, to simply getting something you've undoubtedly spent so much time and effort on in front of, and sometimes literally in the hands of, your intended audience.These a

Comedy Central's "Office Race"

Sep 12 2023 48 mins

Send us a textThis week we connect with Jared Lapidus (director & co-writer) and James McCarthy (co-writer) who are the filmmakers behind "Office Race" the recently released ensemble comedy movie featuring Beck Bennett (SNL), Joe McHale (Community), J.B. Smoove (Curb Your Enthusiasm) and a long list of other notable actors which is now out on Comedy Central! A quick reminder, n

Strike Agreement Misconceptions & Roots of A.I. Fears

Aug 29 2023 23 mins

Send us a textWelcome back to the Independent Filmmaker's Guide.Four common misconceptions with SAG-AFTRA's Interim Agreements and how union members and independent producers can work together to bring the AMPTP back to negotiations.Afterward, we look at some of the roots of A.I. as it applies to using union members' name, image, and likeness and even touch on a case-study that cou

The State of Horror Films | Michael Gingold | Fangoria, Rue Morgue

Aug 15 2023 53 mins

Send us a textWelcome back to the Independent Filmmaker's Guide.Today hosts Steven Pierce and Matt Mundy are joined by friend and special guest and Horror Genre aficionado, Mike Gingold. He's a journalist, screenwriter, author, director, not to mention one of the most well-respected voices in the horror community today, who just may have seen every horror movie ever made.A graduate

The Entertainment Industry's Metamorphosis: the Netflix Effect

Aug 01 2023 19 mins

Send us a textWelcome back to the Independent Filmmaker's Guide.What if we told you that Netflix, your go-to for binge-watching, has not just altered your viewing habits but also rattled the very foundations of the entertainment industry? It is true, but what is unclear is if that is a good thing or even sustainable.Netflix and other streaming enterprises' entry into the scene has

A Happy Hour Flix podcast | It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World with special guest Dana Snyder

Jul 25 2023 61 mins

Send us a textHey everyone and welcome back to the Independent Filmmaker’s GuideSo a couple of weeks ago we launched our new podcast, Happy Hour Flix - where we sit down with a special guest and talk about a nostalgic film we love and love to talk about. And today we wanted to drop another one of our episodes from that podcast on this feed as another special treat. And as i said