The Filmmakers Podcast
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Aaron Taylor-Johnson & David Mackenzie: The Making of FUZE & Acting and Directing Without Rules
34 mins; April 01, 2026
Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett on Ready or Not 2, Scream, and Directing as a Duo
52 mins; March 23, 2026
How to Direct Romance & Drama: Vanessa Caswill on Adapting a Bestseller 'Reminders of Him'
70 hours 17 mins; March 17, 2026
How to Make & Produce TV dramas with Liza Marshall - Temple, Riviera, Taboo
71 hours 13 mins; March 14, 2026
Episode 500 Special! Filmmaking Advice: Audience Q&A, IndieFilm determination & Director Secrets with Giles Alderson, Dom Lenoir and Phil Hawkins
90 hours 14 mins; March 09, 2026
Steven Knight & Hannah Walters: Creating A Thousand Blows, Peaky Blinders & Boiling Point
33 mins; March 02, 2026
Making a microbudget indiefilm, Crowdfunding to Apple TV: The Story of 'Time Rewind' with writer-director Lincoln Fenner & actor Tim Cullingworth-Hudson
66 hours 34 mins; February 27, 2026
How Bart Layton Turned a Novella into an 85% Rotten Tomatoes Hit with latest feature film Crime 101
34 mins; February 19, 2026
The Nun Director Corin Hardy: From Music Videos to Sundance to Hollywood Horror 'WHISTLE'
52 mins; February 13, 2026
SEND HELP: Sam Raimi (Evil Dead), Zainab Azizi & actor Dylan O’Brien on creating an Original Thriller for Cinema
43 mins; February 12, 2026
Making the BAFTA-Nominated 'I SWEAR': Producers Piers Tempest & Georgia Bayliff + Director Kirk Jones
92 hours 12 mins; February 03, 2026
Oppenheimer, Mercy & The Dark Knight trilogy producer Chuck Roven: From humble begginings to Winning the Oscar.
57 mins; January 29, 2026
The Reality of Low-Budget Filmmaking: Making "A Gangster's Life" with Tony Cook & Zak Fenning
77 hours 43 mins; January 22, 2026
Nia DaCosta: Directing 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple & Taking Over from Danny Boyle
37 mins; January 21, 2026
Paul Schrader: 'Taxi Driver' & 'Raging Bull' writer on Screenwriting, Directing and shooting his latest film Oh, Canada in Just 17 Days.
57 mins; January 17, 2026
Hikari: Directing Brendan Fraser in Rental Family & Creating Netflix's Beef PLUS Award Season Discussion
61 hours 10 mins; January 13, 2026
James L. Brooks: Directing Ella McCay, The Simpsons, Emma Mackey & Writing Honest Dialogue
27 mins; January 06, 2026
What will 2026 hold for Filmmakers | XMAS QUIZ | Industry Insights with your HOSTS
111 hours 45 mins; December 23, 2025
The Duffer Brothers: Creating STRANGER THINGS, Directing the Finale, and Surviving Hollywood Rejection
40 mins; December 18, 2025
How to Write, Produce, Direct and Star in your own micro budget movie. Mark Hampton talks Unlicensed
94 hours 1 min; December 10, 2025
How to Sell and Distribute Your Film with Sales Agent Itzchak Maghen
85 hours 50 mins; December 07, 2025
Kristen Stewart: Directing Her Feature Debut AND Imogen Poots on the Craft of Acting & Adaptation in The Chronology of Water
57 mins; December 02, 2025
NOAH BAUMBACH: Directing George Clooney & Adam Sandler in "Jay Kelly" | Directing Process & Working with actors
36 mins; November 26, 2025
Michael Shannon & James Vanderbilt: The Craft of Directing and Acting the "Nuremberg" Trials
49 mins; November 19, 2025
From Sundance to Netflix: The Making of Train Dreams with Felicity Jones, Kerry Condon, Clint Bentley & Joel Edgerton
67 hours 59 mins; November 12, 2025
EDGAR WRIGHT: The Running Man Director on Writing & Directing Indie Blockbusters (Baby Driver, Scott Pilgrim & The Cornetto Trilogy)
62 hours 6 mins; November 04, 2025
Riz Ahmed: The Art of Acting - From Oscar Winner to Relay's Silent Fixer
47 mins; October 30, 2025
Director DAVID MACKENZIE: From Starred Up to Hell or High Water to his latest movie Relay starring Riz Ahmed & Lily James
40 mins; October 27, 2025
CHANNING TATUM & KIRSTEN DUNST and director DEREK CIANFRANCE: Talk, Acting, Directing, 'ROOFMAN'
70 hours 10 mins; October 20, 2025
Jason Clarke, Haley Bennett, Dominic Cooper and showrunner Jon Bokenkamp talk The Last Frontier
59 mins; October 15, 2025
Making an Micro Budget, Award Wining indie film 'Signs of Life' with minimal crew: Director & writer Joseph Millson
79 hours 57 mins; October 06, 2025
BENNY SAFDIE (Uncut Gems): Directing Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson in THE SMASHING MACHINE plus filmmaking tips.
50 mins; September 30, 2025
Nicky Bentham & Suhayla El-Bushra on Their Powerful New Film 'Brides' Producing & Screenwriting on Challenging Narratives of Indie Filmmaking.
54 mins; September 26, 2025
Making a feature film for under 250k in 7 days with 'TAPE's Bizhan Tong and Stephen Belber
73 hours 30 mins; September 16, 2025
Willem Dafoe & Nadia Latif talk 'The Man in My Basement'
26 mins; September 09, 2025
How to write and direct comedy features with ‘Poor Things’ Writer Tony McNamara & ‘Austin Powers’ Director Jay Roach: 'The Roses'
44 mins; September 01, 2025
Sir Ben Kingsley & Chris Colombus: From Sexy Beast to Harry Potter to The Thursday Murder Club!
51 mins; August 25, 2025
Ari Aster: Hereditary, Midsommar & Beau is Afraid writer-director on making A24's Eddington
33 mins; August 19, 2025
Creativity, Burnout & Mental Health in Filmmaking with Matt Follows, Dom Lenoir & Conor Boru
55 mins; August 14, 2025
Making an indie film for under 100k! Director and writer Tony Burke and Actor & Exec Craig Russell talk making PROTEIN
76 hours 42 mins; August 05, 2025
LIVE from The Funny Life Film Festival - Join Giles Alderson & Dom Lenoir as they are chat How to Make a Feature with Hillary Shakespeare, Mitchell Tolliday, Holger Borggrefe, Mel Harris and Stephen Cookson
69 hours 28 mins; July 30, 2025
Fantastic 4 Director Matt Shakman and Actor Ralph Ineson chat with Conor Boru and Francis Annan
67 hours 25 mins; July 22, 2025
Toby Kebbell, Bjorn Franklin and Jonny Marchetta talk 'Salvable' and how they made their incredible debut movie with Toby and Shia LaBeouf starring.
56 mins; July 16, 2025
Neil Marshall & Liz Farahadi on short film-making, short film festival submissions, SohoLIFF and making their short film 'Keep Young and Beautiful'
70 hours 20 mins; July 08, 2025
Destry Allyn Spielberg on Making Your Debut indie film 'Please Don't Feed the Children' as a director
38 mins; July 02, 2025
Jerry Bruckheimer & Joseph Kosinski join Stephen Followers to talk F1, Brad Pitt, AI, Action, Race Cars and making movies!!
30 mins; June 25, 2025
'We Live in Time', 'Boy A' & 'Brooklyn' writer & director John Crowley on casting, storytelling and creative vision.
40 mins; June 17, 2025
Director Aylin Tezel talks making her debut feature film Falling into Place
42 mins; June 10, 2025
Jai Courtney and Sean Byrne talk making indie feature Dangerous Animals, acting, directing and sharks!
61 hours 6 mins; June 02, 2025
Business of Film: Cannes, Festivals, Indie Films, AI and Trumps' Tariffs and the QUIZ. Join Giles Alderson, Enfys Dickinson, Dom Lenoir and Stephen Follows for this SPECIAL Ep
119 hours 41 mins; May 26, 2025
Waypoint Entertainment's Ken Kao on Producing Hollywood Movies with Ryan Gosling from The Favourite to The Nice Guys
63 hours 37 mins; May 21, 2025
Rosie Fellner & Ross Clarke on Indie Filmmaking, Financing, Sales & Cinema Distribution of their produced feature The Uninvited.
64 hours 46 mins; May 05, 2025
Making an indie feature on a shoe string budget with Mitchell Tolliday, Lauren Cornelius and Neil Rickatson on Murder Ballads
97 hours 29 mins; April 28, 2025
Gareth Evans - 'Havoc', 'The Raid' and 'Gangs of London' Director and writer on his process
43 mins; April 21, 2025
'The Amateur': Shooting an Action Thriller around the world with director James Hawes & actress Caitríona Balfe
61 hours 11 mins; April 14, 2025
Natalie Dormer & Ami Mann on making the indie feature 'Audrey's Children'
75 hours 19 mins; April 07, 2025
Making successful Comedy Features in 2025 with "You're Cordially Invited" & "Back in Action" writer-directors Nicholas Stoller & Seth Gordon
75 hours 47 mins; March 31, 2025
Companion: Crafting a smart genre blend with Writer-Director Drew Hancock & Editors Brett W. Bachman & Josh Ethier
96 hours 30 mins; March 24, 2025
ADOLESCENCE: Creating the new Netflix One-Take hit series with actors Stephen Graham & Erin Doherty, director Philip Barantini & writer Jack Thorne
78 hours 22 mins; March 18, 2025
'Casino Royal', 'The Legend of Zorro' director Martin Campbell on how to shoot big budget action films and his latest 'Cleaner’
70 hours 6 mins; March 10, 2025
Food For Thought: Why make a passion project documentary and give it away for FREE with Giles Alderson & Dan Richardson
62 hours 9 mins; March 03, 2025
Small Things Like These & Peaky Blinders Director Tim Mielants on collaborating with Cillian Murphy and making movie and TV magic
54 mins; February 25, 2025
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy director Michael Morris on Bridget, Tone and Making TV and Film
53 mins; February 18, 2025
MAKING OF 'September 5' cast & writer-director SPECIAL with Peter Sarsgaard, Leonie Benesch, Ben Chaplin, John Magaro & Tim Fehlbaum
87 hours 30 mins; February 10, 2025
Zoë Saldaña, ‘Emilia Pérez’, Juliette Welfling and Oscar-longlisted short film ‘Dovecote’ dir Marco Perego
67 hours 46 mins; February 03, 2025
Guy Pearce on Acting, On set tips, Working with Directors and 'The Brutalist'
39 mins; January 30, 2025
The Brutalist writer-director Brady Corbet & production designer Judy Becker on making an Oscar-nominated epic
79 hours 52 mins; January 28, 2025
From 'Director Jail' to Blockbuster Movies with Nick Hamm, director & writer of William Tell, White Lines and The Hole
50 mins; January 21, 2025
From Editing to Making Amazon Prime Directorial Debut with 'Unstoppable' director William Goldenberg
56 mins; January 13, 2025
Coralie Fargeat on making The Substance - A body horror psychological thriller starring Demi Moore and Margret Qualley.
72 hours 49 mins; January 06, 2025
Showrunning, Directing and writing on Star Wars: Skeleton Crew with Jon Watts and Christopher Ford
61 hours 51 mins; December 30, 2024
FILMMAKING QUIZ 2024, XMAS Special with hosts Giles Alderson, Phil Hawkins, Lucinda Rhodes Thakrar, Andrew Rodger and Stephen Follows!
91 hours 57 mins; December 30, 2024
Tyler Perry and Nicole Avant on making 'The Six Triple Eight' for Netflix
42 mins; December 20, 2024
A24's HERETIC writers & directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods on crafting a modern day masterpiece
85 hours 51 mins; December 16, 2024
Sarah Brocklehurst on financing and producing The Outrun starring Saoirse Ronan
66 hours 15 mins; December 09, 2024
Richard Linklater & Glen Powell on hit movie 'Hit Man'
46 mins; December 02, 2024
'Joy' and 'Sex Education' director and Exec Ben Taylor on making a NETFLIX feature and hit TV Show.
52 mins; November 25, 2024
Jon M Chu director of Wicked, Crazy Rich Asians, In The Heights.
25 mins; November 21, 2024
Dune Prophecy: Emily Watson, Olivia Williams, Chris Mason, Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, Jodhi May and Travis Fimmel talk making and acting in an epic HBO series.
56 mins; November 18, 2024
The Piano Lesson: Making your debut feature starring Samuel L. Jackson with Netflix with writer-director Malcolm Washington & actress Danielle Deadwyler
71 hours 20 mins; November 11, 2024
Making an award winning 'calling card' and getting on Shudder with 'ManFish' and 'Members Club' director & writer Marc Coleman
87 hours 43 mins; November 04, 2024
Conclave: A Screenwriting Superclass with Oscar Nominated and Bafta winning writer Peter Straughn.
48 mins; October 28, 2024
Business of Film - Do Horror Movies Make Money? Stephen Follows, Jennifer Handorf and Giles Alderson discuss The Horror Report
99 hours 33 mins; October 21, 2024
Anna Kendrick - Acting to Directing her debut movie 'Woman of the Hour'
31 mins; October 18, 2024
Alice Lowe: Timestalker, Prevenge & Directing, Acting in and Writing your own indie films
65 hours 32 mins; October 15, 2024
Making your feature debut with Skincare director and writer Austin Peters
53 mins; October 07, 2024
Will & Harper director Josh Greenbaum on working with Will Ferrell on his new documentary
57 mins; September 30, 2024
Making Fan-Favorite TV Series Fargo, The Big Door Prize and PEN15 with cinematographer Bella Gonzales
62 hours 10 mins; September 23, 2024
Elizabeth Olsen, Carrie Coon and director Azazel Jacobs talk making His Three Daughters
64 hours 37 mins; September 16, 2024
'TOUCH' & 'BEAST' director/writer Baltasar Kormákur on going from indie films to studio films and back again.
47 mins; September 09, 2024
Making indie feature 'Sing Sing' with non actors - Director Greg Kwedar, Producer Monique Walton and Writer Clint Bentley
73 hours 8 mins; September 02, 2024
From Failure to Prime No.1 movie success with 'Jackpot' Screenwriter and Exec Rob Yescombe
84 hours 27 mins; August 26, 2024
Black Dog: The Making of an independent masterpiece with George Jaques and Ken Petrie.
98 hours 29 mins; August 19, 2024
Ted Lasso, Scrubs and Bad Monkey writer & exec Bill Lawrence and actress Michelle Monaghan
64 hours 59 mins; August 12, 2024
NO Crew! NO Problem! How to make a microbudget indie feature with Stephanie Lynn and Bryden Lando 'Aloha Also Means Goodbye'
71 hours 55 mins; August 05, 2024
How to Make a Netflix dystopian thriller with 'The Kitchen' Director Kibwe Tavares & Producer Dan Emmerson
53 mins; July 29, 2024
How to make a Hit Movie for a streaming channel -The Making of 'Robin and the Hoods' with director Phil Hawkins
102 hours 22 mins; July 22, 2024
Twisters - Ashley Jay Sandberg on rising up the ranks from Assistant to Exec Producer and getting your studio movie greenlit
70 hours 39 mins; July 15, 2024
Cinematography Masterclass with 'Lola' DOP Oona Menges
74 hours 45 mins; July 08, 2024
Making Comedy Indie Films starring Samuel L. Jackson & Uma Thurman with 'The Kill Room' director Nicol Paone
70 hours 36 mins; July 01, 2024