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Indie Film Hustle® - A Filmmaking Podcast
The Indie Film Hustle Podcast is your #1 source for how to hack the film business and indie film world! The show is here to help as many indie filmmakers as I could. We wanted to bring the best guests, industry leaders, creative legends, and film business friends to you, the IFH Tribe.
Some of the past guests include 3X Oscar® Winning Writer/Director Oliver Stone, Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black), Alex Proyas (The Crow, I, Robot), James V. Hart (writer Dracula, Hook), John August (Big Fish…
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Indie Film Hustle® - A Filmmaking PodcastIFH 181: Trailer Editing Techniques to Cut a Badass Movie Trailer
Trailer Editing Techniques to Cut a Badass Movie Trailer I've probably edited over 500 movie trailers, network promos, and commercials in my career. So many…
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IFH 180: How to Cast a No Budget Indie Film with Backstage's Veronika Lee
How to Cast a No Budget Indie Film with Backstage's Veronika Lee Ahhhh casting. It’s probably the last thing a director or producer wants to think about during…
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IFH 179: Oscar-Winner Russell Carpenter A.S.C. - Shooting Blockbusters, Titanic & James Cameron
Oscar-Winner Russell Carpenter A.S.C. - Shooting Blockbusters, Titanic & James Cameron I can't tell you how excited I am about today's guest. I sat down with…
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IFH 178: How a 19 Yr Old Directed & Sold 6 Feature Films with Dylan Mars
How a 19 Yr Old Directed & Sold 6 Feature Films with Dylan Mars I always talk about the grind, doing the work and just going out and shoot your film. Today's…
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IFH 177: Why Facebook Watch is a Game Changer for Indie Filmmakers
Why Facebook Watch is a Game Changer for Indie Filmmakers The online video landscape is changing on a daily basis. The newest gladiator to step into the ring…
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IFH 176: How to Become a "Jack of All Trades" Indie Filmmaker
How to Become a "Jack of All Trades" Indie Filmmaker On today's episode, I want to discuss the need for indie filmmakers to become a "Jack of All Trades." As…
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IFH 175: How to Build an Audience w/ Social Media & Hustle - Hollyshorts! Conference
How to Build an Audience w/ Social Media & Hustle - Hollyshorts! Film Festival Conference In today's episode, I wanted to share the talk I did with RB Botto…
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IFH 174: Hollywood Directing: How to Choose the Right Lens for Your Shot
Hollywood Directing: How to Choose the Right Lens for Your Shot On today's episode, I wanted to give you a sneak peek of one of the best selling filmmaking…
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IFH 173: This is Meg is LIVE on iTunes & Some Other Surprises
This is Meg is LIVE on iTunes & Some Other Surprises Today is the day. This is Meg is FINALLY been released to the world on iTunes. It's pretty incredible that…
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IFH 172: Spielberg, Take Me & Directing for the Duplass Brothers with Pat Healy
Spielberg, Take Me & Directing for the Duplass Brothers with Pat Healy Today's guest prolific actor/writer/director Pat Healy. Pat discuss his new Netflix film…
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IFH 171: How to Make Money with Your Indie Film (Crazy Case Studies)
How to Make Money with Your Indie Film (Crazy Case Studies) So you want to make money with your film. Who doesn't? I've always been a hustler, and I used that…
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IFH 170: How a Screenwriter Becomes a First Time Director with Kelly Fremon Craig
How a Screenwriter Becomes a First Time Director with Kelly Fremon Craig I'm asked all the time "How does a screenwriter get the opportunity to direct one of…
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IFH 169: How to Make Money Renting Your Film Gear with ShareGrid
How to Make Money Renting Your Film Gear with ShareGrid's Brent Barbano Have you ever wanted to make a little extra cash with that film gear sitting in your…
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IFH 168: How To Be Creative - The War of Art & Turning Pro
How To Be Creative - The War of Art & Turning Pro How to be creative? This is a question that surprisingly has a simple answer. DO THE WORK! In this episode…
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IFH 167: How to Make $3 Million Selling Your Indie Film on iTunes & Amazon w/ Range 15
How to Make $3 Million Selling Your Indie Film on iTunes & Amazon w/ with Nick Palmisciano of Range 15 We all hear that self-distribution is the future for…
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IFH 166: Indie Film Self Distribution & Marketing Blueprint with This is Meg
Independent Film Self Distribution & Marketing Blueprint with This is Meg Over the past 6 months or so I've been getting an enormous amount of emails and…
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IFH 165: Why Creating Systems is Better Than Setting Goals
Why Creating Systems is Better Than Setting Goals We've all been taught that creating goals is important and they are but creating systems is even more…
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IFH 164: Vintage Lenses for Indie Filmmakers MasterClass w/ Alan Besedin
Vintage Lenses for Indie Filmmakers MasterClass w/ Alan Besedin One of the main goals of Indie Film Hustle is to give real world knowledge and resources to…
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IFH 163: Why Indie Filmmakers Need to Break the Rules
Why Indie Filmmakers Need to Break the Rules In this episode, I discuss breaking the rules. why it is important to your career as an indie filmmaker and how it…
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IFH 162: 7 Tips To Nail Your First Week On a Film Set
7 Tips To Nail Your First Week On a Film Set Your first week on a film set will be an intimidating experience. It takes time to find your feet and feel…
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IFH 161: Building an Affordable Cinema Lens w/ Veydra Lenses' Ryan Avery
Veydra Mini Cinema Primes: Real Cinema Lenses You Can Afford If you're an indie filmmaker and shoot your own stuff, the price of really good glass is generally…
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IFH 160: Ed Burns - How to Make a $9000 Feature Film (The Brothers McMullen)
How to Make a $9000 Feature Film with Ed Burns Many of you might have heard of the Sundance Film Festival winning film called The Brothers McMullen written and…
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IFH 159: How to Build a Film Brand w/ Zombie with a Shotgun's Hilton Ruiz
How to Build a Film Brand w/ Zombie with a Shotgun's Hilton Ruiz I always talk about building a fan base and making art or products that can be sold to that…
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IFH 158: How to Avoid Legal Pitfalls in Indie Film with Walter B. Batt Esq.
If paperwork, contacts and E&O Insurance was as sexy as a new 8K camera then filmmaker would never get into legal trouble when making their film. Alas it is…
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IFH 157: How to Shoot 360 Video & Actually Make Money with Josh Gibson
How to Shoot 360 Video & Actually Make Money with Josh Gibson This week on the show we have Josh Gibson from 360 Video Academy. I know just enough about 360…
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IFH 156: Secrets to Directing a Killer Action Sequence with Gil Bettman
You are in for a treat IFH Tribe. Today's guest is directing guru Gil Bettman.Gil is a seasoned director shooting features, television, commercials and music…
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IFH 155: What the Heck is a Line Producer with Sevier Crespo
What the Heck is a Line Producer with Sevier Crespo I've been asked by the tribe to do a show on what the heck is a line producer. Ask and you may receive…
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IFH 154: How to Direct the Character, Not the Actor with Mark Travis
This week I have the pleasure of having directing coach Mark Travis on the show. I was introduced to him after I watched his stellar workshop Hollywood Film…
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IFH 153: Why You Need to Get Off Your Ass NOW & Make Your Film
Why You Need to Get Off Your Ass NOW & Make Your Film I think the title speaks for itself. Every once in a while I need to hear some stories that inspire me to…
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IFH 152: How to Build an 8 Million Following YouTube Empire with RocketJump's Dez Dolly
How to Build a YouTube Empire with RocketJump Co-Founder Dez Dolly So I want you to get ready for an epic podcast. Have you ever been surfing through Youtube…
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IFH 151: How to Shoot 96 Script Pages in 4 Days
So after I posted the video below I was slammed by emails and messages from the IFH Tribe asking for details on how I shot 96 pages of a visual effect heavy…
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IFH 150: How to Launch Your Indie Film on iTunes with Brad Raider
If you want to see a self-distribution pathway to get your film on iTunes and actually make some money meet writer/director Brad Raider. His film Kensho at the…
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IFH 149: Star Wars, Star Trek & Geeking Out with Greg Grunberg
Have you ever kept seeing an actor pop up in all your favorite films and television shows? Well, that guy is probably Greg Grunberg. I've been a fan of Greg…
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IFH 148: How to Write a Super Natural Hit Film with BeetleJuice Creator Larry Wilson
How to Write a Super Natural Hit Film with Beetlejuice Creator Larry Wilson If you were a kid of the late 80s or early 90s then today's guest definitely had an…
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IFH 147: Cinema Lenses MasterClass with Matthew Duclos
Cinema Lenses MasterClass with Matthew Duclos Today we are going deep down the cinema lenses rabbit hole. I was lucky enough to sit down and speak to the…
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IFH 146: Adventures at Cinequest with the Cast of This is Meg
Adventures at Cinequest with the Cast of This is Meg It's a been a long journey but This is Meg finally had it's World Premiere at the Cinequest. I was…
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IFH 145: How to Make $250K Indie Film Look Like $25 Million Blockbuster with Gaelan Connell
How to Make $250K Indie Film Look Like $25 Million Blockbuster with Gaelan Connell Every once in a while I come across a filmmaker who is just a bit crazier…
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IFH 144: The Reel Truth on How to Survive Making an Indie Film with Reed Martin
The Reel Truth on How to Survive Making an Indie Film with Reed Martin Have you ever wish that you could avoid pitfalls and mistakes that other filmmakers made…
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IFH 143: How NOT to Shoot a $50,000 Short Film
How NOT to Shoot a $50,000 Short Film So as filmmakers we all want to make the best films we can. Sometimes filmmakers think that a bigger budget is the…
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IFH 142: Lessons Learned from Running Indie Film Hustle
Lessons Learned from Running Indie Film Hustle I wanted to put together this episode to share with the IFH Tribe the amazing lessons I've learned over the past…
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IFH 141: Turbo Kid & How to Create an Indie Film Ecosystem with Shaked Berenson
Turbo Kid & How to Create an Indie Film Ecosystem with Shaked Berenson I speak a lot on IFH on how filmmakers should create their own ecosystem and revenue…
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IFH 140: 6 Mistakes To Avoid Your First Day On a Film Set
6 Mistakes To Avoid Your First Day On a Film Set 1. Arriving Late If you’re not early, you’re late. I aim to get to work at least 15 minutes early each day on…
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IFH 139: Why I Edited My Feature Film on DaVinci Resolve
Why I Edited My Feature Film on DaVinci Resolve I've been editing features, shorts, commercial, and everything else shot on film or video for over 20 years…
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IFH 138: How to Sell Your Idea to Television with Agent Matthew Doyle
How to Sell Your Idea to Television with Agent Matthew Doyle SPECIAL SUNDANCE EDITION of the Indie Film Hustle Podcast Today's guest cracked open a door to a…
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IFH 137: Jason Michael Berman - Producing 5 Sundance Films & Making it in Hollywood
Jason Michael Berman - Producing 5 Sundance Films & Making it in Hollywood SPECIAL SUNDANCE EDITION of the Indie Film Hustle Podcast I had the honor of…
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IFH 136: How to Break into the Film Industry with Stage 32's RB Botto
How to Break into the Film Industry with Stage 32's RB Botto SPECIAL SUNDANCE EDITION of the Indie Film Hustle Podcast One of my most downloaded episodes ever…
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IFH 135: Disrupting Sundance & Helping Filmmakers with Slamdance Co-Founder Dan Mirvish
Disrupting Sundance & Helping Filmmakers with Slamdance Co-Founder Dan Mirvish SPECIAL SUNDANCE EDITION of the Indie Film Hustle Podcast In our journeys…
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IFH 134: Chasing Sly and the Family Stone Documentary for 12 years with Michael Rubenstone
Chasing Sly and the Family Stone Documentary for 12 years with Michael Rubenstone SPECIAL SUNDANCE EDITION of the Indie Film Hustle Podcast We all hear stories…
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IFH 133: Sydney Freeland: Working with Netflix & Maintaining Creative Freedom
Sydney Freeland: Working with Netflix & Maintain Creative Freedom SPECIAL SUNDANCE EDITION of the Indie Film Hustle Podcast I ran into many filmmakers while…
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IFH 132: Rebel in the Rye & How to Become a Producer with Jason Shuman
Rebel in the Rye & How to Become a Producer with Jason Shuman SPECIAL SUNDANCE EDITION of the Indie Film Hustle Podcast Every once in a while we get a real…
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IFH 131: Inside the Spec Script Market with Agent David Boxerbaum
Inside the Spec Script Market with Agent David Boxerbaum SPECIAL SUNDANCE EDITION of the Indie Film Hustle Podcast We all have heard about screenwriter selling…
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IFH 130: Elijah Wood and the SpectreVision Team - Creating a Brand & Making Killer Films
Creating a Brand & Making Killer Films with Elijah Wood and the SpectreVision Team SPECIAL SUNDANCE EDITION of the Indie Film Hustle Podcast I wanted to do…
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IFH 129: 5 Rules to Make Money Selling Indie Films
5 Rules to Make Money Selling Indie Films I feel that one of the reasons I was put on this earth was to help filmmakers and artist make money selling their…
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IFH 127: No Budget Filmmaking with Mark Stolaroff
No Budget Filmmaking with Mark Stolaroff I've been trying to get today's guest on the show for months. Mark Stolaroff is a No Budget Filmmaking maestro. Here's…
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IFH 126: Should You Own Your Own Film Gear? - Ask Alex
Should You Own Your Own Film Gear? Happy New Year IFH Tribe! We are now in 2017 and this will be ana amazing, creative and monumental year for us all. I wanted…
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IFH 125: Inspiration in 2017 & What I've Learned
Inspiration in 2017 & What I've Learned Can you believe we've arrived at out last episode of 2016? The Indie Film Hustle Podcast has had some amazing…
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IFH 124: What is Your Film Really Worth?
What is Your Film Really Worth? So you are thinking of making an indie film or you've just finished making one...now what? When filmmakers go on the long…
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IFH 123: What is Cinematic Virtual Reality with Jason Diamond
What is Cinematic Virtual Reality with Jason Diamond Is Virtual Reality the next big step in visual storytelling? Steven Spielberg said: “I think we’re moving…
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IFH 122: What "Hamilton the Musical" Can Teach Indie Filmmakers
What "Hamilton the Musical" Can Teach Indie Filmmakers If you have been living underneath a rock you probably haven't heard of the Broadway smash hit Hamilton…
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IFH 121: Joshua Caldwell - The Art of the $6000 Feature Film
The Art of the $6000 Feature Film with Joshua Caldwell I had the pleasure of meeting Joshua Caldwell, a brother in "indie filmmaking" arms. He directed a $6000…