Oppenheimer (2023) is one of the biggest films of last year. Two days ago, it won 5 Golden Globes, including Best Drama, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Original Score.And this is why today, we treat you with our epic feature-length Oppenheimer-episode: our hosts Giles Alderson and Dom Lenoir sat down with editor Jennifer Lame, costume designer Ellen Mirojnick, Make-Up and Prosthetics Designer Luisa Abel, and hair designer Jaime Leigh McIntosh to talk aboutThe creative process behind Oppenheimer.Working with Christopher Nolan.What they want from a director.tips & tricksWe had a lot of fun recording this one. So we hope, you enjoy it too! Sit back, relax and ...!OPPENHEIMER is out now! PODCASTMERCHGet your very own Tees, Hoodies, onsetwater bottles, mugs and more MERCH. https://my-store-11604768.creator-spring.com/COURSESWant to learn how to finish your film?Take our POST PRODUCTION COURSEhttps://cuttingroom.info/post-production-demystified/PATREONBig thank you to:Serena GardnerMark HammettLee HutchingsMarli J MonroeKaren NewmanWant your name in the show notes or somegreat bonus material on film-making?Join our Patreon for bonus episodes, industry survival guides andfeedback on your film projects!SUPPORT THE PODCASTCheck out our full episode archive at TheFilmmakersPodcast.comCREDITSThe Filmmakers Podcast is hosted,produced, and written by Giles Alderson @gilesaldersonEdited by @tobiasveesLogo and Banner Art by Lois Creative Theme Music by John J. HarveyCONTACT THE PODCASTemail us: thefilmmakerspodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Director and writer George C. Wolfe is our guest on the podcast this week as he chats with Dom Lenoir about re-creating black civil rights marches and moments of American history with his latest award winning film RUSTIN!.George, who has won five Tony Awards, also directed the feature Ma Rainey's Black Bottom discusses:Making a complicated homosexual factual film.Financing through President Obama.Adapting a true story using a mix of documentary techniques.Starting out in Theatre, what to show and not show when adapting for the screen. The screenwriting process and casting the perfect lead.Rustin is out now on NETFLIX!PODCAST MERCHGet your Xmas pressies here with our very own Tees, Hoodies, onset water bottles, mugs and more MERCH. https://my-store-11604768.creator-spring.com/COURSESWant to learn how to finish your film?Take our POST PRODUCTION COURSEhttps://cuttingroom.info/post-production-demystified/PATREONBig thank you to:Serena GardnerMark HammettLee HutchingsMarli J MonroeKaren NewmanWant your name in the show notes or some great bonus material on film-making?Join our Patreon for bonus episodes, industry survival guides and feedback on your film projects!SUPPORT THE PODCASTCheck out our full episode archive at TheFilmmakersPodcast.comCREDITSThe Filmmakers Podcast is hosted, produced, edited and written by Giles Alderson @gilesaldersonLogo and Banner Art by Lois Creative Theme Music by John J. HarveyCONTACT THE PODCASTemail us: thefilmmakerspodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Happy New Year and as a treat for you for 2024, Dom Lenoir sits down with director James Hawes to talk making award season features and huge streaming series and discuss his latest feature 'One Life' starring Anthony Hopkins which is out NOW.James talks about his career how he got involved in One Life, how he dealt with the difficult but rewarding story. Working with young children in a psychological situation and casting.He also with Dom about having breakfast with Anthony Hopkins and persuading him that he can direct the film.Why cinema will make a comeback.Finance, scripting and editing.Camera moves, design and finding new crew.Why you should keep coming up with collaborations and ideas.Plus he chats about making Slow Horses and the pitching scenario.ONE LIFE is OUT NOW in cinemas.Join Giles at the premiere of his latest produced feature on 5th January, the documentary on Grimsby Town FC https://cleethorpes.parkwaycinemas.co.uk/atawpremiereMERCHGet your Xmas pressies here with our very own Tees, Hoodies, onset water bottles, mugs and more MERCH. https://my-store-11604768.creator-spring.com/COURSESWant to learn how to finish your film?Take our POST PRODUCTION COURSEhttps://cuttingroom.info/post-production-demystified/PATREONBig thank you to:Serena GardnerMark HammettLee HutchingsMarli J MonroeKaren NewmanWant your name in the show notes or some great bonus material on film-making?Join our Patreon for bonus episodes, industry survival guides and feedback on your film projects!SUPPORT THE PODCASTCheck out our full episode archive at TheFilmmakersPodcast.comCREDITSThe Filmmakers Podcast is hosted, produced, edited and written by Giles Alderson @gilesaldersonLogo and Banner Art by Lois Creative Theme Music by John J. Harvey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Our filmmaking wrap up and Christmas / New Year QUIZ of 2023!Join Giles Alderson, Stephen Follows, Dom Lenoir, Sophie Rodger, Tobias Vees and Andrew Rodger as they discuss their films of the year, what has changed in the film industry this last year & filmmaking issues their would adapt if they could.What can we/you do differently and positively in 2024 to make our films and make the change needed to do so.Plus who will win the Christmas QUIZ? Does Dom stand a chance now Phil Hawkins can't make it?AND we talk though our top ten podcasts of the year. And what will be the top listened to episode? Will it be our episode with Christopher McQuarrie? One of our Business of Film episodes? or perhaps Simon Pegg and Rebecca Ferguson?Find out this and more and Happy New Year!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Director Simon Cellan Jones joins Giles Alderson and Dom Lenoir to talk working with Hollywood stars, making a career as a filmmaker and directing the ace new action comedy The Family Plan starring Mark Wahlberg and Michelle Monaghan.Simon discusses how he worked at 20th Century Fox in the mail room before working as a runner at the BBC then made a short film and sold to to them. He went to make TV series including Our Friends in the North, The Bill, The Expanse, Jessica Jones, Ballers, Years and Years, See, The Diplomat, as well as making his debut feature Some Voices starring Daniel Craig and being nominated for a BAFTA. He went on to direct the feature films The One and Only as well as two Mark Wahlberg films back to back: Arthur and the King and The Family Plan.He also talks about:Directing actors.Making action work.What to do when things go wrong.And gives some amazing advice to filmmakers.The Family Plan is our NOW on Apple TV PlusAll Town Aren't We PREMIERE TicketsJoin Giles at the premiere of his latest produced feature the documentary on Grimsby Town FC https://cleethorpes.parkwaycinemas.co.uk/atawpremiereMERCHGet your Xmas pressies here with our very own Tees, Hoodies, onset water bottles, mugs and more MERCH. https://my-store-11604768.creator-spring.com/COURSESWant to learn how to finish your film?Take our POST PRODUCTION COURSEhttps://cuttingroom.info/post-production-demystified/PATREONBig thank you to:Serena GardnerMark HammettLee HutchingsMarli J MonroeKaren NewmanWant your name in the show notes or some great bonus material on film-making?Join our Patreon for bonus episodes, industry survival guides and feedback on your film projects!SUPPORT THE PODCASTCheck out our full episode archive at TheFilmmakersPodcast.comCREDITSThe Filmmakers Podcast is hosted, produced, edited and written by Giles Alderson @gilesaldersonLogo and Banner Art by Lois Creative Theme Music by John J. Harvey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Joining us on this weeks podcast are 'Femme' directors and writers - Sam Freeman and Ng Choon Ping to talk about their BIFA winning short Femme which they then made a feature film starring George Mackay and Nathan Stewart Jarret.Sam and Ping sat down with Giles Alderson to chat how they went from theatre directing and writing to making their BIFA winning short film which led onto their feature of the same name Femme.How they got their cast onboard, How BBC films' Eva yates became involved and where the inspiration came from.They discuss working as a writing and directing duoshort to feature and what that involved.And what they took from directing their first feature.Femme is screening in cinemas in the UK now.MERCHGet your Xmas pressies here with our very own Tees, Hoodies, onset water bottles, mugs and more MERCH. https://my-store-11604768.creator-spring.com/COURSESWant to learn how to finish your film?Take our POST PRODUCTION COURSEhttps://cuttingroom.info/post-production-demystified/SUPPORTRob Ayling’s Greenlit campaign Punching Bag here https://greenlit.com/project/punching-bagPATREONBig thank you to:Serena GardnerMark HammettLee HutchingsMarli J MonroeKaren NewmanWant your name in the show notes or some great bonus material on film-making?Join our Patreon for bonus episodes, industry survival guides and feedback on your film projects!SUPPORT THE PODCASTCheck out our full episode archive at TheFilmmakersPodcast.comCREDITSThe Filmmakers Podcast is hosted, produced, edited and written by Giles Alderson @gilesaldersonLogo and Banner Art by Lois Creative Theme Music by John J. HarveyMusic supplied by – Music Bed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week we are joined by directors Sam Boyd who's joins us to discuss making Working Title's 'Genie' starring Melissa McCarthy and Paapa Essiedu.Sam sits down with Giles Alderson and Dom Lenoir to talk going from short film to indie feature then from writing and directing his hit TV series 'Love Life' to Working Title feature film with 'Genie'.Sam also discusses pitching to the films writer and Love Actually creator Richard Curtis.Why keeping working as a director and making films fuels confidence.Why this business is luck and hard work and maintaining relationships.Casting & financing - and the chicken and the egg situation.And why he nearly gave up before he made his TV series and why he tried 'one more time'.Genie is OUT NOW on Sky Cinema and Peacock.MERCHGet your Xmas pressies here with our very own Tees, Hoodies, onset water bottles, mugs and more MERCH. https://my-store-11604768.creator-spring.com/COURSESWant to learn how to finish your film?Take our POST PRODUCTION COURSEhttps://cuttingroom.info/post-production-demystified/SUPPORTRob Ayling’s Greenlit campaign Punching Bag here https://greenlit.com/project/punching-bagPATREONBig thank you to:Serena GardnerMark HammettLee HutchingsMarli J MonroeKaren NewmanWant your name in the show notes or some great bonus material on film-making?Join our Patreon for bonus episodes, industry survival guides and feedback on your film projects!SUPPORT THE PODCASTCheck out our full episode archive at TheFilmmakersPodcast.comCREDITSThe Filmmakers Podcast is hosted, produced, edited and written by Giles Alderson @gilesaldersonLogo and Banner Art by Lois Creative Theme Music by John J. HarveyMusic supplied by – Music Bed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week on the podcast we chat with writer and director Stuart Gatt about his debut feature film, the festival darling Catching Dust.Stuart sits down with fellow filmmaker Giles Alderson and discusses making the leap from shorts to feature, how he felt making Catching Dust and what he learnt along the way. They also discuss:Why making a short film a calling card is vital .Why he wants to make movies in and set in the US.His screenwriting process and using flow charts. Pitching to investors.Why he feels likes he’s made films in a vacuum with no help from anyone before Catching Dust.Why you should know your material.Talking to the cast and crating connections Directing tips and tricks that are the core of the scene.Directing process - what did he do? Being challenged by your DP in a good way.Catching DustDirected and Written by: Stuart GattProduced by: Mark David, Jon Katz, Stuart Gatt and Edward R. PressmanStarring: Erin Moriarty, Jai Courtney, Dina Shihabi and Ryan CorrGeena (Erin Moriarty) and her violent criminal husband Clyde (Jai Courtney) hide out in an abandoned commune in the Texas desert, hunted by the law and his former gang members looking to settle old scores. Geena is desperate for interaction with the outside world and exhausted by Clyde’s controlling ways. She decides to leave, but a trailer suddenly arrives carrying Amaya (Dina Shihabi) and Andy (Ryan Corr), a vacationing couple from New York City seeking to save their troubled marriage. Ignoring the risks their presence will bring, Geena convinces Clyde to let them stay, a decision with dangerous consequences for them all.Writer, director Stuart Gatt is an award-winning British filmmaker of mixed Asian heritage whose stories are often influenced by topical social themes. His short film, My Beautiful White Skin, tackled skin lightening amongst the British Asian diaspora and starred Red Notice’s Ritu Arya. His penultimate film The Dead Sea, starred BAFTA-nominated Sope Dirisu and focused on the plight of Libyan refugees’ perilous journey into Europe. Catching Dust is Stuart Gatt’s feature debut, based on his original script and had its World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year.EVENTSNetworking Xmas Party with LIFF & TFP - JOIN US. https://www.genesiscinema.co.uk/movie/liff-and-the-filmmakers-podcast-christmas-networking-party/MERCHGet your xmas pressies here with our very own Tees, Hoodies, onset water bottles, mugs and more MERCH. https://my-store-11604768.creator-spring.com/COURSESWant to learn how to finish your film?Take our POST PRODUCTION COURSEhttps://cuttingroom.info/post-production-demystified/SUPPORTRob Ayling’s Greenlit campaign Punching Bag here https://greenlit.com/project/punching-bagPATREONBig thank you to:Serena GardnerMark HammettLee HutchingsMarli J MonroeKaren NewmanWant your name in the show notes or some great bonus material on film-making?Join our Patreon for bonus episodes, industry survival guides and feedback on your film projects!SUPPORT THE PODCASTCheck out our full episode archive at TheFilmmakersPodcast.comCREDITSThe Filmmakers Podcast is hosted, produced, edited and written by Giles Alderson @gilesaldersonLogo and Banner Art by Lois Creative Theme Music by John J. HarveyMusic supplied by – Music Bed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Join us for the 5th edition of The Business of Film Explained ! Our series on the business aspects on our film industry and how we can help you over come them!On this episode we dive into the fact that the SAG Strike is OVER! and now they are over what does this mean for you, the indie filmmaker.We discuss what benefits the actors negotiated and what can we expect next. Joining your ears is the legend that is film data researcher Stephen Follows and directors and producers Giles Alderson, Dom Lenoir and Phil Hawkins!Link to Stephen Follows’ websiteFurther reading https://stephenfollows.com/how-has-the-cost-of-making-a-movie-changed-in-recent-years/Links to previous Business of Film Explained episodes:Business of Film. 1 What % of directors, producers &writers make more than one feature film. LINKBusiness of Film 2 How and Why you can become a filmmaker LINKBusiness of Film 3 Audience questions and A.I and it’s effect on screenwriting and film-making LINKBusiness of Film 4 How much did Studios profit 2022 LINKCOURSESWant to learn how to finish your film?Take our POST PRODUCTION COURSEhttps://cuttingroom.info/post-production-demystified/SUPPORTRob Ayling's Greenlit campaign Punching Bag here https://greenlit.com/project/punching-bagPATREONBig thank you to:Serena GardnerMark HammettLee HutchingsMarli J MonroeKaren NewmanWant your name in the show notes or some great bonus material on film-making?Join our Patreon for bonus episodes, industry survival guides and feedback on your film projects!SUPPORT THE PODCASTCheck out our full episode archive at TheFilmmakersPodcast.comCREDITSThe Filmmakers Podcast is hosted, produced, edited and written by Giles Alderson @gilesaldersonLogo and Banner Art by Lois Creative Theme Music by John J. HarveyMusic supplied by – Music Bed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We have a bumper episode for you with not one, not two but three Oscar nominated or Oscar winning filmmakers who work with David Fincher. We have Cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt, Editor Kirk Baxter and Sound Designer Ren Kylce who have all worked with Fincher multiple times who talk about their latest collaboration The Killer which starring Michael Fassbender and Tilda Swinton.First Up. Dom Lenoir chats to Cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt:Discussing lighting techniques.How do you tell a story with the camera and the camera as a characterWhy he didn’t want to let David down.How they shot fight scenes and why you need to be efficient and responsible.Editor - Kirk BaxterWhy as an editor he wanted to make The KillerFassbenders 'moments'What he starts with when he gets the rushesWhy he shows David early cuts.What he looks for as an editor and tips and tricks.and finally Sound Designer Ren KylceDavid likes to get them to start sound design straight away.Where he finds sounds.Collecting Foley.Sharing sound files among other sound mixersCreating tension in sound design.Defining tone with the director.The Killer is OUT now on NETFLIXCOURSESWant to learn how to finish your film?Take our POST PRODUCTION COURSEhttps://cuttingroom.info/post-production-demystified/EVENTJoin Cassius Raynor at this Short 2 Feature event this Sat 11th Nov 2023Link https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-secrets-of-shorts-2-features-producers-directors-qa-networking-tickets-741405181857PATREONBig thank you to:Serena GardnerMark HammettLee HutchingsMarli J MonroeKaren NewmanWant your name in the show notes or some great bonus material on film-making?Join our Patreon for bonus episodes, industry survival guides and feedback on your film projects!SUPPORT THE PODCASTCheck out our full episode archive at TheFilmmakersPodcast.comCREDITSThe Filmmakers Podcast is hosted, produced, edited and written by Giles Alderson @gilesaldersonLogo and Banner Art by Lois Creative Theme Music by John J. HarveyMusic supplied by – Music Bed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices