Here’s the latest episode of the The Filmmakers Podcast, part of the ever-growing podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on the official podcast site, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres.
For those unfamiliar, with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors. They also shoot the breeze about their new films, The Dare, World of Darkness,...
For those unfamiliar, with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors. They also shoot the breeze about their new films, The Dare, World of Darkness,...
- 3/3/2020
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Sneak Peek footage, plus images from Mythica Entertainment's fantasy action series "Ren: The Girl with the Mark", starring Sophie Skelton ("Outlander"), directed by Kate Madison:
"...'Ren' follows a young woman who has a strange encounter in the woods, marked by an ancient spirit.
"Cast out from her small village, she is forced to leave behind the family she has spent her whole life protecting...
"...to journey across the land to find the real meaning behind the mark she bears..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Ren: The Girl With The Mark"...
"...'Ren' follows a young woman who has a strange encounter in the woods, marked by an ancient spirit.
"Cast out from her small village, she is forced to leave behind the family she has spent her whole life protecting...
"...to journey across the land to find the real meaning behind the mark she bears..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Ren: The Girl With The Mark"...
- 12/28/2017
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
This year’s festival will include an inaugural virtual reality strand and a co-production forum focused on UK-Ibero-American relations.Scroll down for line-up
The 24th Raindance Film Festival has revealed its line-up, with 90 feature films set to be screened in London September 21 – October 2.
This year’s jury will be comprised of Stephen Fry (V For Vendetta), Joanna Lumley (Absolutely Fabulous), Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake), Jodie Whittaker (Broadchurch), Anna Friel (Pushing Daisies), Jack Davenport (Pirates Of The Caribbean), Nicholas Pinnock (Top Boy) and American artist David Datuna.
They will preside over awards for a competition line-up that features the international premiere of Stephen Elliott’s After Adderall, a semi-autobiographical story about the production of the film adaptation of Elliott’s memoirs. Receiving its European premiere will be Japanese director Yoshiyuki Kishi’s A Double Life, about a young woman who is assigned to follow a stranger.
Among the seven UK premieres playing in competition are Indian drama [link=tt...
The 24th Raindance Film Festival has revealed its line-up, with 90 feature films set to be screened in London September 21 – October 2.
This year’s jury will be comprised of Stephen Fry (V For Vendetta), Joanna Lumley (Absolutely Fabulous), Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake), Jodie Whittaker (Broadchurch), Anna Friel (Pushing Daisies), Jack Davenport (Pirates Of The Caribbean), Nicholas Pinnock (Top Boy) and American artist David Datuna.
They will preside over awards for a competition line-up that features the international premiere of Stephen Elliott’s After Adderall, a semi-autobiographical story about the production of the film adaptation of Elliott’s memoirs. Receiving its European premiere will be Japanese director Yoshiyuki Kishi’s A Double Life, about a young woman who is assigned to follow a stranger.
Among the seven UK premieres playing in competition are Indian drama [link=tt...
- 8/25/2016
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Forget your $250 million budgets and A-list megastars, sometimes all you need to make a good film is a bit of creative thinking and passion for your characters (intellectual property rights optional).
With feature-length fan film Star Trek: Renegades setting fandom abuzz, here's a host of unauthorised movies that put Hollywood to shame.
1. Batman battles Predator
Back in the Dark Knight's movie wilderness years (thanks for that, George Clooney!), short Batman: Dead End made waves online thanks to a mega-twist that saw the Caped Crusader in a rain-soaked showdown against a Predator. If it bleeds, Batman can kill it.
2. A Judge gets back in the saddle
A tepid box office showing from 2012's Dredd means a sequel is probably never going to happen. However, hardcore fans had their thirst quenched by the moody Judge Minty, about an ageing Mega City One Judge striding through the Cursed Earth. Think of this as...
With feature-length fan film Star Trek: Renegades setting fandom abuzz, here's a host of unauthorised movies that put Hollywood to shame.
1. Batman battles Predator
Back in the Dark Knight's movie wilderness years (thanks for that, George Clooney!), short Batman: Dead End made waves online thanks to a mega-twist that saw the Caped Crusader in a rain-soaked showdown against a Predator. If it bleeds, Batman can kill it.
2. A Judge gets back in the saddle
A tepid box office showing from 2012's Dredd means a sequel is probably never going to happen. However, hardcore fans had their thirst quenched by the moody Judge Minty, about an ageing Mega City One Judge striding through the Cursed Earth. Think of this as...
- 8/28/2015
- Digital Spy
Last summer I was working on an independent feature when I came in one morning to find the production office abuzz with hushed gossip and Chinese whispers. Pretty quickly I found out the news: the UK Film Council was to be abolished. The immediate reaction seemed to be concern; what.s the next chapter for the UK film industry? Who will fill the gap? People shouted and petitioned, a number of high profile actors and directors got involved, but it was no good. By 31st March 2011, the UKFC was closed for business.
Cut to nine months later and a house in South Devon, where director David M. Reynolds is launching an appeal . via online crowdfunding website Kickstarter – to publically fund his latest venture, The Underwater Realm. The project is a series of short films taking its audience from the height of the Roman empire right through to modern day, chronicling...
Cut to nine months later and a house in South Devon, where director David M. Reynolds is launching an appeal . via online crowdfunding website Kickstarter – to publically fund his latest venture, The Underwater Realm. The project is a series of short films taking its audience from the height of the Roman empire right through to modern day, chronicling...
- 12/29/2011
- by Alex Turner
- Obsessed with Film
Dragon Con SymbolThe Dragon Con Independent Film Festival has announced a full list of short and features films for the event. One of the largest film festivals in America, Dragon Con takes place in Atlanta, Georgia beginning September 3rd. This years feature highlights involve a zombie apocalypse taking place at a prom in As Good As Dead, two students trying to save the world from terrorists in Horrible Turn, and a prequel to J.R.R. Tolkien's story The Lord of the Rings in Born of Hope. This is only a brief intro' and fans of independent film and creativity can check out the schedule for the film festival below, or at the Dragon Con website.
The full synopsis for Born of Hope:
"A scattered people, the descendants of storied sea kings of the ancient West, struggle to survive in a lonely wilderness as a dark force relentlessly bends its will toward their destruction.
The full synopsis for Born of Hope:
"A scattered people, the descendants of storied sea kings of the ancient West, struggle to survive in a lonely wilderness as a dark force relentlessly bends its will toward their destruction.
- 7/29/2010
- by 28DaysLaterAnalysis@gmail.com (Michael Ross Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
A budget Lord of the Rings prequel put together by hundreds of people working for nothing has recorded nearly a million hits on video streaming sites
On the eastern flank of Epping Forest, a short walk in from the town of Debden, there is a huge tree, lying on its side, upended by a storm. It was in this clearing that independent film-maker Kate Madison, along with dozens of game volunteers, filmed Born of Hope, a homemade prequel to Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy that has caused a great stir since its release in December. A production pulled together over four years with a budget of a mere £25,000 – about a tenth of one per cent of the cost of Jackson's epic – it has impressed critics and recorded close to a million views on video streaming sites. The upended tree seems a fitting place for it all to have begun.
On the eastern flank of Epping Forest, a short walk in from the town of Debden, there is a huge tree, lying on its side, upended by a storm. It was in this clearing that independent film-maker Kate Madison, along with dozens of game volunteers, filmed Born of Hope, a homemade prequel to Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy that has caused a great stir since its release in December. A production pulled together over four years with a budget of a mere £25,000 – about a tenth of one per cent of the cost of Jackson's epic – it has impressed critics and recorded close to a million views on video streaming sites. The upended tree seems a fitting place for it all to have begun.
- 3/7/2010
- by Tom Lamont
- The Guardian - Film News
There are cute, inexpensive fan films, and then there are epic, big-budgeted Fan films. Directed and produced by uber Lord of the Rings super geek Kate Madison, Born of Hope falls into the latter category with its close to $40,000 budget and 400 actors and extras. The full-length feature film (roughly 71 minutes) took about a year to make and is set well before the events of the first three films.
In order to help fund the film, Madison took a unique approach in asking for donations through YouTube, and though we don't have specific dollar amounts, Born of Hope may have set a record for the most amount of money raised through YouTube for an independent fan film. In addition to the donations -- and to show you just how much of a fan this girl is -- Madison also cleared out her entire savings and took on a job as an...
In order to help fund the film, Madison took a unique approach in asking for donations through YouTube, and though we don't have specific dollar amounts, Born of Hope may have set a record for the most amount of money raised through YouTube for an independent fan film. In addition to the donations -- and to show you just how much of a fan this girl is -- Madison also cleared out her entire savings and took on a job as an...
- 2/16/2010
- by Erik Davis
- Cinematical
It's a slow day at work so I'm trawling the net to keep myself entertained and what do I stumble (well not stumble as it was Yahoo's lead story) upon but the trailer to a prequel to Lord of the Rings that has been made by fan Kate Madison. Now I'm not a fanatic when it comes to the Rings. I tried to read the Hobbit when I was a kid but was bored by about page 20 and the thought of actually wading my way through Tolkien's books fills me with dread - I barely passed French at school, let's not bring Elvish into the mix. However, I was introduced to the films at Uni as my boyfriend at the time was a massive fan and I spent countless hours racking up some Orc viewing while playing the dutiful girlfriend. Therefore, I couldn't help but sneak a peak at what this film might hold.
- 2/12/2010
- by Susannah Lee
- t5m.com
Using her and#163;25,000 ($39,000) life savings Kate Madison made her own Lord of the Rings film titled Born of Hope, and as the Daily Mail points out it is getting plenty of play online and is ready to watch at the bottom of this post.
Checking out the YouTube page it is marked as in response to The Hunt for Gollum, another fan made Rings-related feature which I discussed back in May 2009 and is available to watch right here. The Hunt for Gollum follows Aragorn (Adrian Webster), the Heir of Isildur as he sets out to find the creature Gollum (voiced by Gareth Brough and Jason Perino). The creature must be found to discover the truth about the ring, and to protect the future Ringbearer.
Born of Hope is inspired by only a couple of paragraphs written by J.R.R. Tolkien in the appendices of the "Lord of the Rings." Set in...
Checking out the YouTube page it is marked as in response to The Hunt for Gollum, another fan made Rings-related feature which I discussed back in May 2009 and is available to watch right here. The Hunt for Gollum follows Aragorn (Adrian Webster), the Heir of Isildur as he sets out to find the creature Gollum (voiced by Gareth Brough and Jason Perino). The creature must be found to discover the truth about the ring, and to protect the future Ringbearer.
Born of Hope is inspired by only a couple of paragraphs written by J.R.R. Tolkien in the appendices of the "Lord of the Rings." Set in...
- 2/12/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
London -- Upstart movie jamboree the London Independent Film Festival is to give low budget movie, "Born Of Hope," made by Tolkien fanatic Kate Madison, its U.K. theatrical bow.
Madison spent her entire savings and more than six years to produce, direct and star in the one hour movie, billed as a prequel to the "Lord of The Rings" trilogy of films.
It has already played out on the Inernet with more than 500,000 viewers to date.
Festival director Erich Schultz said the scope and look of Madison's project "demonstrates everything that's possible in U.K. indie filmmaking."
The festival runs April 15 through 27 across the British capital.
Madison spent her entire savings and more than six years to produce, direct and star in the one hour movie, billed as a prequel to the "Lord of The Rings" trilogy of films.
It has already played out on the Inernet with more than 500,000 viewers to date.
Festival director Erich Schultz said the scope and look of Madison's project "demonstrates everything that's possible in U.K. indie filmmaking."
The festival runs April 15 through 27 across the British capital.
- 2/12/2010
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A Lord Of The Rings fan has spent £25,000 making Born Of Hope, an unofficial prequel movie to the J.R.R. Tolkien fantasy series, reports The Telegraph. Actress Kate Madison, 31, invested her life savings to direct and star in the project. Born Of Hope follows Arathorn and Gilraen, the parents of Aragorn, a central character in Peter Jackson's acclaimed Lord Of The Rings trilogy. The 71-minute feature has already become a huge success on YouTube, registering more than 250,000 views. "I used a couple of paragraphs in the appendices [of the original book] and we followed a timeline Tolkien had written... so we had certain facts to follow, but (more)...
- 2/11/2010
- by By Simon Reynolds
- Digital Spy
London, Feb 11 – It has emerged that a ‘Lord of the Rings’ fan has spent all her life savings to film a prequel to the blockbuster trilogy.
Kate Madison, 31, filmed, produced and starred in her hour-long film, ‘Born of Hope’, which took six years to make with a volunteer cast and crew of more than 400.
She spent 8,000 pounds on the project and raised 17,000 pounds by posting a trailer on YouTube.
The final cut has been viewed by more than half a million people since it was launched online in December, and now Madison is hoping to pitch it to Hollywood distributors.
The film was shot in Epping Forest, Essex, and West Stow, Suffolk, and the cast.
Kate Madison, 31, filmed, produced and starred in her hour-long film, ‘Born of Hope’, which took six years to make with a volunteer cast and crew of more than 400.
She spent 8,000 pounds on the project and raised 17,000 pounds by posting a trailer on YouTube.
The final cut has been viewed by more than half a million people since it was launched online in December, and now Madison is hoping to pitch it to Hollywood distributors.
The film was shot in Epping Forest, Essex, and West Stow, Suffolk, and the cast.
- 2/11/2010
- by News
- RealBollywood.com
It has emerged that a Lord of the Rings fan has spent all her life savings to film a prequel to the blockbuster trilogy. Kate Madison, 31, filmed, produced and starred in her hour-long film, Born of Hope, which took six years to make with a volunteer cast and crew of more than 400. She spent 8,000 pounds on the project and raised 17,000 pounds by posting a trailer on YouTube. The final cut has been viewed by more than half a million people since it was launched online in December, and now Madison is hoping to pitch it to ...
- 2/11/2010
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
Beginning tomorrow, December 1, the Lord of the Rings-inspired Born of Hope will make its exclusive debut on Dailymotion. Directed by Kate Madison, and written by Alex K. Aldridge with the assistance of Christopher Dane, who also stars as Arathorn, Born of Hope is an original prequel based on the J. R. R. Tolkien trilogy and, as per the film’s press release, featuring "a host of characters never before seen on screen." Also, Born of Hope is no short film. It’s a 70-minute made-for-the-web feature that tells the story of Aragorn’s parents, Arathorn and Gilraen, along with the characters who sacrificed it all to keep Aragorn safe. Aragorn, of course, was played by Viggo Mortensen in Peter Jackson’s [...]...
- 12/1/2009
- by Michele Colbert
- Alt Film Guide
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.