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15th Oct2018

The Filmmakers Podcast #77: How to Make and Sell a Micro-Budget Indie Drama

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. They also shoot the breeze about their new films, The Dare, World of Darkness, Fanged Up, & Retribution too.

The Filmmakers Podcast #77: How to Make and Sell a Micro Budget Debut Indie Drama with the director of ‘Sink’, Mark Gillis

Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Actor and debut feature film maker Mark Gillis joins Giles Alderson and Dan Richardson on the filmmakers podcast to chat making his new indie drama Sink which was released on Friday October 12th 2018. We also talk about screenwriting and the different processes we all use, having vital rehearsals before you shoot, first time directing, raising finance, kickstarter troubles, casting a real father and son, having no budget to pay people and the cast and crew working for deferred fees and the issue of post on a low budget indie film