Rise of the Filmtrepreneur: The Entrepreneurial Filmmaking Podcast with Alex Ferrari

Rise of the Filmtrepreneur: The Entrepreneurial Filmmaking Podcast with Alex Ferrari


Latest Episodes

FT 024: Rise of the Filmtrepreneur - Listen to Two Chapters for FREE
December 02, 2019

The day is finally here. My new book Rise of the Filmtrepreneur®: How to Turn Your Indie Film into a Moneymaking Business is finally out. I'm so excited to share this with you, the IFH Tribe. I've been working for months to make this happen. I wanted...

FT 023: The New Film Economy - Why Your Indie Film Isn't Worth What You Think It Is
November 26, 2019

Today's episode is a big one guys. You need to brace yourself. The film economy is going through a major shift. It is as big as when we went from Black and white films to color or adding sound to movies. Movies industry is changing from a...

FT 022: The Power of Niche Audiences with Paola di Florio & Peter Rader
November 18, 2019

Today’s guests are Oscar® Nominated writer/director Paola di Florio & and producer Peter Rader. They worked on one of my favorite documentaries in recent years called AWAKE: The Life of Yogananda. The film is an unconventional biography about the...

FT 021: On-Demand Screenings - Getting a Theatrical Release for Your Indie Film
November 11, 2019

I know it's most Filmtrepreneur's dream to have their film screen theatrically around the world. I know I always love seeing my work on the big screen. There's a magical thing about the silver screen but alas that dream was out of reach for most indie...

FT 020: Top 5 Film Festival SCAMS Filmmakers Need to Be Aware Of!
November 04, 2019

I've been at a fair share of film festivals in my life and I've submitted to many more than I've been accepted to. With that said I have seen many less than honorable film festival organizers throughout the process or outright film festival scams....

FT 019: Blair Witch Project - Marketing the Indie Film Phenomenon with Eduardo Sanchez
October 28, 2019

Who hasn't heard of the now legendary indie film rags to riches tale of The Blair Witch Project? Every film student from Los Angeles to Mumbai heard the story of how two young film students spent $27,000 (mostly from friends, family and credit cards)...

BONUS EPISODE: Hybrid Distribution & Selling Your Indie Film with Peter Broderick
October 25, 2019

What is "Hybrid Distribution?" Hybrid distribution is the state-of-the-art model more and more filmmakers are using to succeed. It enables them to have unprecedented access to audiences, to maintain overall control of their distribution, and to...

FT 018: How to Make Massive Money with YouTube with Christopher Sharpe
October 21, 2019

Today's guest is a bonafide Youtube Guru. Christopher Sharpe has not only created one but two massive Youtube Channels. His first was with his wife called Hilah's Cooking which has close to 400,000 users and launched books, speaking engagements, Food...

BONUS EPISODE: How to Raise $1 Million Using Equity Crowdfunding with David Willis
October 17, 2019

Today on the show we have filmmaker David Willis. Willis is the first producer in the United States to raise over $1 million and make a feature film by using Equity Crowdfunding. Equity Crowdfunding is a new, disruptive method of fundraising in the...

FT 017: Lloyd Kaufman & Troma Films - How I Make Money Selling Movies
October 14, 2019

What can I say about Lloyd Kaufman? Director. Writer. Producer. Indie Filmmaker. Innovator. Nice guy. Pain in the ass of mainstream media. I believe all of those statements are true and then some. Lloyd Kaufman is one of the original indie...

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