On this episode of the No Movie College Podcast, Director John-Michael Powell joins host GG Hawkins to speak about his gritty Southern crime thriller Violent Ends, which hits theaters October 31. Powell shares the winding journey that led to the movie’s manufacturing—from being dropped from a university artwork program, to reducing indie movies that made it to festivals like Sundance and SXSW, to modifying the Emmy-winning Netflix sequence American Manhunt.
Remarkably, he crafted a function starring Billy Magnussen and Alexandra Shipp—with out brokers, managers, or competition help. This episode gives a uncooked, inspiring, and tactical take a look at constructing a profession from the bottom up, how you can forge significant inventive collaborations, and why the cavalry may by no means come.
On this episode, we focus on:
- How Powell transitioned from music and graphic design to filmmaking
- Why getting minimize from a university program helped form his resilience
- The lengthy street from writing Violent Ends in 2013 to securing funding a decade later
- The technique behind securing identify actors with out conventional illustration
- How he used relationships and resourcefulness to get a bidding warfare
- What filmmakers ought to learn about real-money gives and escrow
- Why adaptability and microbudget considering nonetheless matter—on any scale
- How not having illustration can truly work in your favor
- Constructing a manufacturing firm (Midnight Highway) and what’s coming subsequent
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This episode of The No Movie College Podcast was produced by Ryan Koo.
