Indie Film Hustle® Podcast Archives: Film Directing

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  • Welcome to the Indie Film Hustle Podcast Archives. The IFH Podcast has recorded hundreds of interviews with Oscar® & Emmy® winners, filmmaking & screenwriting legends, inspirational indie filmmaker and more. Our show covers every aspect of the filmmaking process, from creating the idea to film distribution.

    We are proud of being the #1 free filmmaking and screenwriting resources online so we wanted to create an archive of our best of past episodes that was easy to find based on what topic you wanted to learn. Each archival podcast will have back catalog episodes released weekly so you will have new content all the time.

    IFH Podcast Archives Film Directing is podcast covers everything you ever needed to know about the craft of film directing. We speak to indie filmmaking legends like Richard Linklater, Edward Burns, John Sayles, Sean Baker and Edgar Wright to Oscar® Winners like Oliver Stone, Edward Zwick and Taylor Hackford.

    So subscribe, learn and of course keep on hustling.
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  • IFH Film Directing Archive: Sean Baker: ‘Tangerine' How to Shoot a Sundance Hit on Your iPhone

    IFH Film Directing Archive: Sean Baker: ‘Tangerine' How to Shoot a Sundance Hit on Your iPhone
    Jan 2 2023
    Sean Baker: 'Tangerine' How to Shoot a Sundance Hit on Your iPhone
    I've recently been looking and studying alternative shoot methods to shoot a feature film. One name that keeps coming up is Sean Baker. His ground-breaking film Tangerine made more noise at the Sundance Film Festival than the winner that year. The film was also produced by the indie film legends, Jay and Mark Duplass.
    Tangerine was shot completely on an iPhone. Yes, an iPhone. The great thing was that after his Sundance screening no one in the audience or at the film festival knew that the film was shot on an iPhone.
    What I respect about Sean Baker as a filmmaker is that he didn't focus on the technology when promoting his film, he let the story, actors and film speak for itself. If you haven't seen Tangerine you are missing out. Take a look at the RED BAND trailer below.

    I wanted to put together a post that highlighted what can be done with minimal filmmaking tech and a great story. Sean Baker has definitely what can be done in today's filmmaking world.
    Below are a ton of videos explaining the process Sean Baker and his director of photography Radium Cheung, HKSC went through making Tangerine, as well as a bunch of video explaining tips and tricks on how to turn your something you shot on an iPhone into cinematic gold. Enjoy my conversation with Sean Baker.
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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • IFH Film Directing Archive: Directing Actors & How to Become an Actor’s Director with Per Holmes

    IFH Film Directing Archive: Directing Actors & How to Become an Actor’s Director with Per Holmes
    Dec 30 2022
    Directing Actors & How to Become an Actor’s Director with Per Holmes
    Directing actors can be one of the most difficult parts of wearing the director's hat. Actors speak a language that a director must understand if they are to pull and nurture an amazing performance. Unfortunately film schools do not teach this must need "foreign language" course.
    I've worked with every kind of actor there is. From Oscar® Nominated to fresh out of acting class. Pulling a good performance can be tough and I would get very frustrated sometimes because I couldn't speak there language.
    Then I met Per Holmes. Per created a gaming change course years ago called "Hollywood Camera Work: Mastering High-End Blocking and Staging." I loved this course and it's a must for any filmmaker.
    When I heard he was creating a "Directing Actors" course I was in. I was able to take the course right before I shot my first feature film "This is Meg" and it helped me immensely. I was able to speak the actor's language and nurture the performance I needed for the story.

    I asked Per Holmes to be a guest on the show because I've never taken a course where the instructor was so detailed, thought out and passionate about the subject. Directing Actors is INSANE. Here's a bit on the course.

    Years in the making, Directing Actors is the most comprehensive acting and directing training in the world. Created by Per Holmes, the course teaches a better way to be a Director, by having extremely strong technique, and the right philosophy and personality on the set.
    Through almost a thousand examples, we cover literally every acting and directing technique, every interaction between Actor and Director, and we cast, rehearse and shoot 9 scenes.


    Directing Actors is the result of Per Holmes' personal obsession with resolving once and for all the best way to work with Actors. Every known technique has been tested, and the results are surprising, sometimes shocking. Directing Actors has involved almost 150 people through 7 years of development and 3 years of shooting and editing, including almost a hundred talented Actors who have gracefully allowed us to show the process without any filters.
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    1 hr and 37 mins
  • IFH Film Directing Archive: From Dusk Till Dawn to Nickelodeon with Director Joe Menendez

    IFH Film Directing Archive: From Dusk Till Dawn to Nickelodeon with Director Joe Menendez
    Dec 28 2022
    From Dusk Till Dawn to Nickelodeon with Director Joe Menendez
    This week on the show we have the very talented director Joe Menendez. Joe is an award-winning filmmaker of both a successful feature film director and a prolific television director/producer as well -- having moved seamlessly between both mediums his entire career. Joe Menendez has directed over 95 hours of television (both single and multi-camera), written a handful of teleplays, produced several TV series and films, and has directed eight feature films and TV movies so far. He is a multi-genre veteran of drama, action, comedy, family entertainment, horror and rom-com. His numerous and varied credits show that he is a skilled craftsman and an accomplished, versatile storyteller.
    For this reason I had to have him on the show. Joe Menendez is currently in post-production on Nickelodeon's LEGENDS OF THE HIDDEN TEMPLE, an action-adventure TV movie he directed for Nickelodeon, based on the popular game show of the same name, from the 1990s.
    His last feature, the action/comedy, LADRONES (THIEVES), was released by Pantelion Films October 9th, 2015, and received a CinemaScore of "A". LADRONES is the sequel to his 2007 feature film LADRON QUE ROBA A LADRON (TO ROB A THIEF), which opened at the time to a record-grossing opening weekend at the box-office for a Spanish-language film in the U.S.
    Joe Menendez has directed multiple episodes of the one-hour drama FROM DUSK TILL DAWN: The Series for Robert Rodriguez and his El Rey Network, multiples of the new Amazon Series JUST ADD MAGIC and the Prequel Series plus the "uncensored" episodes for the 2nd season of HULU's hit drama series EAST LOS HIGH.
    I also wanted to have him on the show to discuss what's it like working with a filmmaking legend like Robert Rodriguez. He did not disappoint. His stories are AMAZING! Get ready and enjoy my conversation with Joe Menendez.
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    Joe Menendez - Official Site
    Joe Menendez - IMDB
    From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series
    Legends of the Hidden Temple
    Ladrones

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    1 hr and 31 mins

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