True story: A couple weeks back I spent a whirlwind couple of days in LA for a block of meetings and one of the nights there I was whisked away to a whiskey bar in some part of town where I had never been before. Not even two minutes after walking through the door - literally - my pocket buzzed with a message from a phone number that I didn't recognize. "Todd, are you in LA? At a bar in Silver Lake?"I didn't know. I had to ask. And, yes, that's where I was. And hiding in the back corner of the same bar - completely by random coincidence - were Adam Mason and Simon Boyes, the writer-director duo behind Broken, The Devil's Chair and Blood River and, more importantly, hosts of an on-again, off-again podcast series here at Twitch.
And now the podcast series is on again! Not only are these two talented film makers but they're also hugely entertaining podcasters with a very pointed insiders look at the on-the-ground realities of trying to make independent films in the current environment. Want to know what the consequences of online piracy are for the independent film maker - even established film makers like Mason and Boyes, who have screened their films at some of the biggest festivals in the world - then listen to the first five minutes of this for the brutal reality of how the economics have changed in the past couple years. And it just goes on from there in a hugely entertaining ramble on the industry from an insider perspective ...
The Mason / Boyes podcast series is now available on iTunes. Click here to subscribe.
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