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18th May2020

The Filmmakers Podcast #163: How to make an action film with director Jesse Quinones

by Phil Wheat

Here’s the latest episode of the The Filmmakers Podcast, part of the ever-growing podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on the official podcast site, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres.

For those unfamiliar, with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors.

The Filmmakers Podcast #163: How to make an action film with Cagefighter: Worlds Collide director Jesse Quinones and producer Shayne Putzlocher with Giles Alderson

This week we talk making a MMA style Cagefighting movie with director Jesse Quinones and producer Shayne Putzlocher which releases this SAT May 16th on FITE.com. Giles Alderson had a chat with Jesse and Shayne about their careers, how they got to where they are. They talk about shooting and choreographing a action film, pre vis and storyboards and why you need to come as prepared as possible. They talk about Jesse’s debut movie Calloused hands and what he learnt as a filmmaker and how he met Shayne at Cannes Film Festival and pitched him the movie and six months later he was on set shooting it. Shayne talks about his process as a producer and what needs to be done to get a movie made. We chat Cagefighter:World Collide, casting, working with actors and gives so many tricks and tips to filmmakers.