22nd May2023

The Filmmaker’s Podcast #339: The Business of Film Explained 3

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 Filmmaker’s Podcast #339: The Business of Film Explained III : How the writers; strike and AI affects filmmakers with Stephen Follows, Giles Alderson, Dom Lenoir and Phil Hawkins

How will will the writers strike and AI affect filmmakers? On the 3rd episode of our new strand on the filmmakers podcast called The Business of Film Explained we go deep in facts, stats, percentages and figures of film-making with film data researcher Stephen Follows and directors, producers and screenwriters Giles Alderson, Dom Lenoir and Phil Hawkins!

  • Why is the WGA writers strike happening?
  • What are the studios offering?
  • Can UK writers and producers work in the UK and Hollywood right now?
  • Why you need to be careful not to step over the picket line.
  • We answer audience questions and discuss A.I and it’s effect on screenwriting and film-making.
  • Are A.I plagiarizing machines, can they fill in BFI forms for us?
  • Should we embrace AI?
  • And we ask Chat GPT to ask us some film-making questions to quite remarkable results.

Follow The Filmmakers Podcast on Twitter: @filmmakerspod | @gilesalderson and the official website

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