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b"Giles Alderson (The Dare, World of Darkness) sits down with director, writer and producer Tom Paton to chat how he made his films, Pandorica, Redwood, Black Site, Stairs and G-Loc and how important it is to have a business head on as a filmmaker.\\nEp Sponsored by The Tracking Board https://www.tracking-board.com/\\nOn the podcast this week we chat with Tom Paton about how he went from a Club Rep in Cyprus to becoming a Filmmaker and how he started with no real knowledge of cameras or production. How he self taught himself film-making and learnt to edit and understand VFX and graphics because he has no choice. How he didn't want to make a short but a feature first and how he raised finance using his background in selling to secure investment . for his first feature - Pandorica, shot at night in outdoor locations - high sensitivity camera used, in combination with DIY space lights to shoot a post-apocalyptic forest setting.\\n\\nHow he pushed on after his first feature onto his second feature - Redwood, which was a bigger budget, vampire film set in eastern Europe and the lessons he learnt from first feature he carried over to second feature.\\nHis third film Black Site, out later this year, is a back to his roots, lower budget, exploitation John Carpenter-esque horror thriller.\\nWe discuss what actors look for in a director - and vice versa and producing your own work - and find good collaborators. We discuss his fourth film - Stairs and his 5th feature G-Lock which are both now in post\\nPLUS loads of advice for filmmakers new and old\\n\\nBlack Site TRAILER https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3paRCrafmU\\nTom Paton WEBSITE https://www.tompatonfilm.com/\\n\\nFollow Tom on TWITTER here https://twitter.com/TomPatonFilm\\n\\nLINKS\\nOur Sponsors this week THE TRACKING BOARD\\nThis episode is sponsored by The Tracking Board, featuring the Launch Pad screenwriting competitions. The Launch Pad competitions are the industry's most effective writing competitions. To date, over 400 writers have signed with managers and agents through Launch Pad's annual competitions. Over 100 screenplays have been optioned or purchased. And 6 Launch Pad-winning screenplays have stared bidding wars among the major studios. Learn more at TBLaunchPad.com - and consider joining The Tracking Board as a member to get real-time access to The Tracking Board's industry tracking. The Tracking Board covers spec screenplay sales for Hollywood, industry news and jobs. Learn more at Tracking-Board.com.\\n\\nWATCH World of Darkness https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07BS35KQ2?pf_rd_p=855cdcfd-05d9-474f-b84d-8286a3530ba1&pf_rd_r=G5Q5NNQZR9PRZNQ4ME5D\\n\\nWATCH Fanged Up https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fanged-Up-Daniel-OReilly/dp/B07F83JN6G/ref=sr_1_1?s=instant-video&ie=UTF8&qid=1542670909&sr=1-1&keywords=fanged\\n\\nFollow US on Twitter @filmmakerspod\\xa0@Food4ThoughtDoc @gilesalderson\\xa0@35mmdop @Cjamesdirect @dan710ths @FangedUpFilm @thedaremovie @RobbiemcKane\\n\\nPart of the www.podfixnetwork.com\\n\\n\\nHosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices"