The Way of the Indie Filmmaker

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Matt D'Avella

Advice, Entrepreneurship, Education, Self-improvement, Business, Documentary, Selfhelp, Howto, Health & Fitness, Tv, Health, Self-help

4.9 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2017

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Alex Ferrari is a filmmaker with more than 20 years of experience in the industry. As the founder of IndieFilmHustle.com he helps creatives figure out how to make it & thrive behind the camera. We discuss mindfulness, creating at a high level, building an audience & why the Hollywood studios are scare shitless of indie filmmakers.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody and welcome back to the ground up show. My name's Matt Diavella and today I'm speaking with
0:05.2	Alex Ferrari of Indiefilmhustle.com. He's a director and filmmaker with more than 20 years of
0:11.6	experience in the industry and he helps filmmakers and creatives make and pave their own way
0:18.9	by making independent films.
0:22.2	In our conversation, we talk about how the film industry has changed,
0:26.0	how Hollywood has changed over the past 15 to 25 years,
0:31.7	and how that has given power to the content creators and independent filmmakers,
0:36.7	and why the Hollywood studios are scared
0:39.8	shitless because of that we talk about mindfulness practices and how to stay sane when creating
0:46.8	and executing at a very high level this is a guy that produces two to three podcast episodes per week
0:53.3	two to three blog posts per week,
0:55.7	an insane amount of content. And I got to say meaningful content that really help,
1:00.6	help other people. How do you execute at that level without losing your mind? How do you get seen?
1:07.2	How do you build an audience? We discuss that. It's definitely something I'm interested in. How do you take a message that's really important to you build an audience we discuss that it's definitely something i'm interested in
1:10.9	how do you take a message that's really important to you that means a lot to you and get it in
1:16.3	front of more than just your parents a difficult challenge but one that we tackle on this episode
1:21.9	and lots lots more but before we get to that conversation if you like this podcast and you liked minimalism,
1:28.6	a documentary about the important things, I've got something that you might like.
1:33.0	I recently conducted interviews with the producers of minimalism to give a detailed look at how we made the movie.
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