Welcome to The Anxious Filmmaker podcast! I am your host Chris Brodhead. This podcast chronicles the anxiety and excitement provoking process of becoming a working filmmaker. The goal of the show is to learn everything possible from our incredible guests on how to deal with anxiety and bring about a satisfying and successful artistic career. If you have any interest in making film, tv or art in any form you will find a ton of entertaining value here. This episode's guest is Jon Silver (@JonSilverPoop) a Chicago-based filmmaker coming from a comedy background. He is the Co-Founder of ShowPup Productions (https://showpup.com/) and has worked with Second City and other theaters to produce comedy sketches, short films, web series, TV pilots. His first feature "The Civil Hoax", was called 'Can't Miss Indie Cinema' by the Chicago Tribune, and his latest film “The Scarlet Pirate” is your real Dad. Check out Jon’s latest films Scarlet Pirate (https://amzn.to/3oeP7KJ) and The Civil Hoax (https://amzn.to/2XcHiZS) 8:00 How’d you get into filmmaking 11:00 How to finish your feature - show it to people 18:00 How to choose your next movie idea 22:30 How to get good writing feedback 29:00 Budget raised to reach that production value* 34:30 How to motivate your film production team - “Prioritize what I’m not good at”* 37:00 Where did your budget go? 80% went to people 40:00 Casting - auditions are overrated, look over their reels and reach out to casting agencies* 48:30 Don’t edit your movie yourself - show it to other editors* 53:00 Editing philosophy* 57:30 Marketing release philosophy 59:00 Live experience viewing and Indies 5 year plans* 1:09:30 When to work and when to create (Be unbearable unless you’re doing what you love)* 1:15:30 Modeling your career after anyone? 1:18:00 What are you working towards? To see the complete show notes along with specific links to everything mentioned please go to AnxiousFilmmaker.com. Now go make some art!