Making an indie feature on a  shoe string budget with Mitchell Tolliday, Lauren Cornelius and Neil Rickatson on Murder Ballads

Making an indie feature on a shoe string budget with Mitchell Tolliday, Lauren Cornelius and Neil Rickatson on Murder Ballads

The Filmmakers Podcast · 2025-04-28

Making an indie feature on a shoe string budget and getting it released around the world with today's guests director, writer and producer Mitchell Tolliday, producer and actress Lauren Cornelius and producer and writer Neil Rickatson on Murder Ballads: How to Make it in Rock and Roll.

Host Giles Alderson talks with Mitchell, Lauren and Neil about how they made 'Murder Ballads', how they went from Short to Feature.

How their raised finance and Crowdfunded the movie.

How 'issues' on set can create magic.

Sales and Distribution and Festivals.

And they give you some brilliant practical advice so you can go and make your own indie feature.



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The Filmmakers Podcast

A podcast about how to make film and TV by filmmakers who actually make them. Interviewing guests from the film-making world from Indie film to Hollywood and everything in between. Hosts Giles Alderson (The Dare), Dom Lenoir (Winter Ridge) Lucinda Rhodes Thakrar (Wolves of War), Tori & Matthew Butler-Hart (Two Down), Phil Hawkins (Prancer: A Christmas Tale), Stephen Follows (Film Data Analyst), Christian James (Fanged Up), Andy Rodger (Three Day Millionaire) and many others explore the world behind-the-scenes of making films and TV, talking to the actors, writers, directors and producers who make them!

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