Turn your Micro Budget Feature into a Directing Career with Joshua Caldwell

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This week on the podcast I talk to Director Joshua Caldwell. After making a bunch of short films Joshua went onto make his debut micro budget feature 'Layover'. It won a bunch of awards and launched his directing career. Joshua's directed television and feature films including 'Infamous' and 'Mending the Line' for Netflix starring Brian Cox.
Joshua also runs the '6k Filmmaker Micro Budget Course', one of the students of which was James Chick, who I have previously interviewed on the podcast about his micro feature 'Feet of Death'.
I talked to Joshua about his career, how he started out, how he got that first feature film put together. He also told me why he thinks it's much better to make a feature film than lots of short films and the reasons why. We also talked about his course and some of the lessons he's learned from shooting features on low budgets - very useful stuff if you are thinking of working on your own debut feature film.
Of course, I also asked him about 'Mending the Line' and what it was like working with Brian Cox - enjoy!
The Oner from 'Infamous': https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0wXaYNOtMp/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
6k Filmmaker Course: https://www.6kfilmmaker.com/

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Kapitel

1. Introduction to Joshua and his career (00:00:00)

2. How did Joshua get into the business (00:01:19)

3. Movie Magic - Did Joshua study film? (00:04:33)

4. Making a big decision for the future (00:06:02)

5. Make as many films as you can + should you go to film school? (00:09:26)

6. Film courses - is it diluted? (00:12:53)

7. Funding short films (00:13:32)

8. Short films are a giant waste of time and money (00:14:58)

9. Lessons working on a feature film and the film festival game (00:21:44)

10. 6k Micro Budget Film Course (00:23:28)

11. The 80/20 Rule (00:25:40)

12. How to start your project (00:26:20)

13. Shooting without a permit (00:27:55)

14. Dissecting the 'Oner' from 'Infamous' (00:28:15)

15. Real or fake gun flashes? (00:37:40)

16. Mending the Line with Brian Cox - did Joshua Love Fishing first? (00:40:43)

17. Brian Cox is awesome - is he grumpy in real life? (00:45:39)

18. Reasons to subscribe for more (00:48:05)