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The Colin and Samir Show

How to Sell Your Movie to Netflix with Filmmaker Matt D'avella

The Colin and Samir Show

Colin and Samir

Business

4.9665 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Matt D'avella is an award-winning documentary filmmaker best known for his movie Minimalism. Matt has done something that Colin and I have always wanted to do, make a movie and sell it to Netflix. Matt asked us to be on his podcast and after we were done recording the episode we kept the mics on and asked him some questions. Make sure to check out Matt on YouTube where he releases The Ground Up Show (his podcast) in full along with insightful tips for aspiring creatives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I had been spending my entire life and career uplifting other companies, pushing their message,

0:05.1

pushing their brand forward, building their audiences. And I thought, well, why don't I just use

0:11.9

this like superpower, this skill that I've created and use it to promote myself?

0:17.2

Today on the Colin and Samir podcast, we talked to filmmaker Matt Diavella. Matt has done something

0:23.7

that Colin and I have always wanted to do. He made a movie for Netflix. The movie is called

0:29.4

Minimalism, and we highly recommend you give it a watch if you have not already. Matt documented

0:34.7

the making of minimalism on his YouTube channel, which recently crossed

0:38.8

100,000 subscribers. He also has a podcast where he interviews creatives called The Ground Up Show,

0:45.0

and he asked us to be on it. So we took that opportunity to sit him down and ask him some questions

0:50.1

for our podcast. We asked Matt about tips if you want to make a movie for Netflix.

0:56.2

We talked to him about why he decided to go onto YouTube,

0:59.5

and he gives tips about finding your own style and voice as a filmmaker.

1:04.2

We also took to Twitter to do some Q&A.

1:06.8

So enjoy our conversation with filmmaker Matt Diavella.

1:13.6

So we're conversation with filmmaker Matt Diavella. So we're here with Matt Diavella.

1:16.3

We just finished recording the Ground Up show, which is his podcast.

1:20.3

It is a podcast.

1:21.3

And it's also video as well.

1:22.8

So video podcast.

1:24.2

But I don't put it on the video podcast section on iTunes because nobody looks at those. Oh. Do you know that? I didn't even know that there's a separate podcast. Yeah. But I don't put it on the video podcast section on iTunes because nobody looks at those.

1:29.5

Oh.

1:29.9

Do you know that?

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