Turn your Micro Budget Feature into a Directing Career with Joshua Caldwell

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12/03/24 • 48 min

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This week on the podcast I talk to Director Joshua Caldwell. After making a bunch of short films Joshua went onto make his debut micro budget feature 'Layover'. It won a bunch of awards and launched his directing career. Joshua's directed television and feature films including 'Infamous' and 'Mending the Line' for Netflix starring Brian Cox.
Joshua also runs the '6k Filmmaker Micro Budget Course', one of the students of which was James Chick, who I have previously interviewed on the podcast about his micro feature 'Feet of Death'.
I talked to Joshua about his career, how he started out, how he got that first feature film put together. He also told me why he thinks it's much better to make a feature film than lots of short films and the reasons why. We also talked about his course and some of the lessons he's learned from shooting features on low budgets - very useful stuff if you are thinking of working on your own debut feature film.
Of course, I also asked him about 'Mending the Line' and what it was like working with Brian Cox - enjoy!
The Oner from 'Infamous': https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0wXaYNOtMp/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
6k Filmmaker Course: https://www.6kfilmmaker.com/

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Indie Film Marketing & Reaching your Audience with Chris Nials

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This week on the podcast I talk to the founder of the Independent Horror Society and filmmaker Chris Nials. Chris started the Independent Horror Society in London as a way for horror lovers to get together and watch Horror movies. It quickly transformed and became more of a hub for filmmakers and people who love horror to connect with the horror creators.
Chris is also a producer having worked on a bunch of short films and having recently released 'Walking Against the Rain' . I talked to Chris about the Independent Horror Society, we chatted about his feature film, it was funded through the SEIS scheme in the UK so it was good to quiz him about that and find out the pitfalls and his tips for those of you thinking of doing that yourself. We talked about the feature film, the sales and distribution process.
Chris says he has a good Sales Agent, which is something you don't often hear so it was great to quiz him about that. He's also a professional marketeer so it was great to get his tips on how to promote your film, Enjoy!
Watch "Walking Against the Rain" on Prime: https://www.amazon.com/Walking-Against-Rain-Sophia-Eleni/dp/B0B8MSLS1R
Watch Jim's movie 'The Apocalypse Box': https://amberpictures.co.uk/the-apocalypse-box/

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Writing, Acting, Directing & Producing your First Feature with Dzifa Mallet

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This week on the podcast I talk to actor and director Dzifa Mallet. Dzifa decided he wanted to change careers and move into acting so made a short film and then turned this into his debut feature "Remedy for a Broken Heart".
I spoke to Dzifa about what it was like working on his debut feature for someone with very little experience behind a camera, the strains and stress of directing yourself as well as producing an entire production on your own on a shoestring.
We also talked about sales and distribution, how Dzifa ended up working with Indie Rights and how he promotes the film with a $0 marketing budget

Check out the re-release of Jim's first solo directing feature The Witches Hammer - out now on amazon
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/detail/B0F235F4T8/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r