Episodes

  • We're Making A Movie: Building Your Core Team
    Jun 4 2025

    The team! The core crew. Your closest production homies. Your filmmaking ride or dies. This week, we’re talking all about the very core team of people you bring on to walk the long trudge of making a feature film together. Making a movie is no small feat, and bringing on your Director, Producer, and Cinematographer in the development phase of the production can be crucial. But who do you need this early on in the process, and what exactly are they doing?! Well, let's talk about that.


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    55 mins
  • We're Making A Movie: An Interview with Jenny Waldo
    May 28 2025

    How do you make your first indie feature film? H O W !?! If our years of making short films have taught us anything, it's to ask questions of those who have been where we want to go. Better yet, ask those questions of creators who are a few steps ahead of you on the journey, rather than those who are years down the road. We are thrilled to sit down with filmmaker Jenny Waldo and ask her: How did you develop your first feature? With her successful debut feature under her belt and her second one in the works, Jenny is truly the perfect person to chat with!



    A producer, writer, and director, Jenny Waldo’s feature film directorial debut, Acid Test, adapted from her award-winning short, premiered at the Austin Film Festival and was nominated for the Texas Independent Film Award by the Houston Film Critics Society. Experienced in both documentary and scripted storytelling, past credits include associate-producing the indie feature The Preacher’s Daughter which sold to Lifetime and the Starz feature documentary The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing among various shorts, documentary series, and music videos. Her second feature, Mustang Martha, is in development and was a Nicholl Fellowship Quarterfinalist and participant of several development labs including the Stowe Story Narrative Lab. A graduate of USC's School of Cinematic Arts with a MFA in Film Production, Jenny educates and advocates for upcoming filmmakers through her consulting, volunteer work, and as a faculty member of Houston Community College’s Filmmaking Program. Specializing in based-on-true stories with personal and intimate films, her latest short, Twofer, premiering at the Houston Latino Film Festival, expands her directing work into the thriller genre!


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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • We're Making A Movie: An Interview with Allison Moy Hayhurst
    May 21 2025

    We are very lucky that our feature film has an amazing producer already on board. Filmmaker friends, we are thrilled to introduce you to Allison Moy Hayhurst, producer with Evening Squire Productions. In this week’s episode, we’re going to open up the can of worms that is producing. What is a Producer? What do Producers do? And when does your project need a Producer? We hope to answer all of these questions, and luckily, we have Allison here to help us make sense of it all.


    Allison Moy Hayhurst is a southern-raised Chinese American NY-based producer, writer, and puppeteer. Most recently, she produced her first feature film, "And Through the Portal We Go", which premiered in 2024 and has already won multiple awards, including Best Feature, Best Actor, and Best Acting Ensemble. She is a co-founder of Evening Squire Productions and has been instrumental in the production and writing of their myriad of award-winning short films. Notable projects include live-action puppet short "The Pits"; coming-of-age dramedy "15 Down" (Amazon Prime); dark-comedy-horror-mockumentary "Cook With The Heart" (currently in development as a feature film); the spoken-word dance film "Upside Down Plain Face"; and the action-comedy "BEAT".



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    59 mins
  • We're Making A Movie: Pitch Deck
    May 7 2025

    So you gotta make a deck for your movie, and you're asking yourself, what's a deck even supposed to look like?!? Us too, friend, us too. We’ve been focused on creating a pitch deck for our feature film “Turns Out,” and after A LOT of back and forth, we’re starting to wrap our heads around what a deck really is. Never the gatekeepers, we’re excited to share everything we’ve learned and continue our research along the way.


    Links mentioned in the podcast can be found in the comment section here - https://youtube.com/live/JBE7GN3x774


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    53 mins
  • We're Making A Movie: Development - What is it??
    Apr 30 2025

    Development!? What the F is development??? Sure, we grasp the general concept of filmmaking development, but if you asked us to create a to-do list or outline a plan for it, we would be completely lost. So, we’re gonna dive in and teach ourselves all about what happens before you even start thinking about pre-production, and we want to take you on the ride with us. Let’s do this!


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    54 mins
  • We're Making A Movie: Live From JDIFF
    Apr 24 2025

    You got your film into a film festival… Now what?!?

    Well, since we're coming to you LIVE from the Filmmakers Lounge at the Julien Dubuque International Film Festival, we have some scoop in that department- with our very first Wild Card Episode. We're thrilled to return for another year at one of our favorite festivals, where we first discovered a key strength: marketing our short films. After years of hustling at festivals all over the country, we’ve often joked that we could give a TED Talk on this subject. But since we haven’t received that invitation yet, we decided to dedicate this entire episode to our wild card topic.


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    38 mins
  • We're Making A Movie: Writing Wrap Up
    Apr 16 2025

    It may seem like writing and rewriting a script is never finished, but we are definitely done with the writing section of this podcast. As we wrap up our screenwriting learning adventure, we’re highlighting what comes after you’ve put your brilliant ideas in Final Draft and hit “save” that last time.

    Log lines… treatments… screen competitions. A few things we’re touching on this episode, and we’ll even give you guys some of our hard-earned research. Research… that seems to be another element you’re never finished with in the filmmaking process.


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    48 mins
  • We're Making A Movie: Rewrites, Table Reads and Feedback
    Apr 9 2025

    Rewriting. There is nothing you will do more in the writing process than RE-writing. Between notes from your peers, pre-casting table reads, and your own "Eurekas!" along the way, every writer will open that Final Draft file at least 100 times. For us personally? Two billion five hundred and six rewrites. Now, after our research and interviews over the past few weeks- surprise, surprise- we’ve got more rewrites in mind. So let's talk about it, cause seriously it’s so important.


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    46 mins