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Raising finance, getting named cast & writing producing and starring in your indie feature films with Sarah Megan Thomas
Raising finance, getting named cast & writing producing and starring in your indie feature films with Sarah Megan Thomas
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Length:
74 minutes
Released:
Dec 3, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
This week actress, producer and screenwriter Sarah Megan Thomas joins Giles Alderson to talk about her latest movie Libertè: A Call to Spy
They talk about raising finance and getting to know your investors, how she approached her financiers and kept them for the next film and how you can wear multiple hats on a film set.
They natter about Sundance and the film festival lottery, her screenwriting process, casting and how she got star names attached to her first feature film and how to budget, deal with rejections, working with directors as a producer and actor and we talk about her journey as a female filmmaker and her latest brilliant film that she wrote, produced, raised the money for and starred in: Libertè: A Call to Spy .
WATCH Libertè: A Call to Spy at Whistler Film Festival on 6th Dec 2019
Follow Sarah Megan Thomas on Twitter here www.twitter.com/SarahMeganT
LINKS FREEBIES SPONSORS & PROMOS
This week's episode is sponsored by MusicBed Promo Code: FILMMAKERSPOD - Get one month of subscription on MUSIC BED for free — or 20% off of a single-song purchase. Just enter promo code FILMMAKERSPOD when you check out.
Tickets to the latest MAKEYOURFILM event on 10th Dec 2019 here
Raindance Use promo code 20SATURDAY20 for 20% off Saturday film school on December 7th :) https://www.raindance.org/courses/saturday-film-school/
WATCH A Serial Killers Guide to Life trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=395fp-nEkoU
WATCH The Dare trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5aZVm2drjY
Giles Alderson website
WATCH World of Darkness https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07BS35KQ2?pf_rd_p=855cdcfd-05d9-474f-b84d-8286a3530ba1&pf_rd_r=G5Q5NNQZR9PRZNQ4ME5D
WATCH Fanged Up https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fanged-Up-Daniel-OReilly/dp/B07F83JN6G/ref=sr_1_1?s=instant-video&ie=UTF8&qid=1542670909&sr=1-1&keywords=fanged
Follow us on Twitter @filmmakerspod @gilesalderson @robbiemckane @Food4ThoughtDoc @35mmdop @Cjamesdirect @dan710ths @FangedUpFilm @thedaremovie @philmblog
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They talk about raising finance and getting to know your investors, how she approached her financiers and kept them for the next film and how you can wear multiple hats on a film set.
They natter about Sundance and the film festival lottery, her screenwriting process, casting and how she got star names attached to her first feature film and how to budget, deal with rejections, working with directors as a producer and actor and we talk about her journey as a female filmmaker and her latest brilliant film that she wrote, produced, raised the money for and starred in: Libertè: A Call to Spy .
WATCH Libertè: A Call to Spy at Whistler Film Festival on 6th Dec 2019
Follow Sarah Megan Thomas on Twitter here www.twitter.com/SarahMeganT
LINKS FREEBIES SPONSORS & PROMOS
This week's episode is sponsored by MusicBed Promo Code: FILMMAKERSPOD - Get one month of subscription on MUSIC BED for free — or 20% off of a single-song purchase. Just enter promo code FILMMAKERSPOD when you check out.
Tickets to the latest MAKEYOURFILM event on 10th Dec 2019 here
Raindance Use promo code 20SATURDAY20 for 20% off Saturday film school on December 7th :) https://www.raindance.org/courses/saturday-film-school/
WATCH A Serial Killers Guide to Life trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=395fp-nEkoU
WATCH The Dare trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5aZVm2drjY
Giles Alderson website
WATCH World of Darkness https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07BS35KQ2?pf_rd_p=855cdcfd-05d9-474f-b84d-8286a3530ba1&pf_rd_r=G5Q5NNQZR9PRZNQ4ME5D
WATCH Fanged Up https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fanged-Up-Daniel-OReilly/dp/B07F83JN6G/ref=sr_1_1?s=instant-video&ie=UTF8&qid=1542670909&sr=1-1&keywords=fanged
Follow us on Twitter @filmmakerspod @gilesalderson @robbiemckane @Food4ThoughtDoc @35mmdop @Cjamesdirect @dan710ths @FangedUpFilm @thedaremovie @philmblog
Part of the www.podfixnetwork.squarespace.com
Released:
Dec 3, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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