Who says making a movie requires expensive equipment, a large crew and a script? Perhaps making a film can be a creative experiment between a few friends who are excited by the uncertainty of the journey ahead. That was Pete Os’ realization when he realized that the typical approach to filmmaking wasn’t for him.
In today’s episode, No Film School’s GG Hawkins talks to Pete Ohs, Will Madden, Frank Mosley and Charles Watson to discuss:
- Finding a location that is inspiring and accessible
- I think about editing while I’m directing
- An extremely unique and collaborative way to develop characters
- Creating music that is not traditional for other films
- Pitt’s unique approach to filmmaking
- How Pitt keeps the budget so low and why it matters
- You feel excited by the challenge of the limited resources at your disposal
- Why the uncertainty of this style of filmmaking is exciting and magical
- Their Slamdance Film Festival Experience
- Other festivals and what they like about them
- Starting with what you have available
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Pete Ochs
Pete Ohs is a multi-hyphenate filmmaker. He directs-produces-writes-shoots-edits feature films. In 2017, he filmed Everything Beautiful Is Far Away, a sci-fi fable starring Julia Garner and a robot head. Most recently in 2022, he directed the insane horror-satire Jethica, which premiered at SXSW and the BUSAN International Film Festival.
Filmography:
Jethica (2022)
Youngstown (2021)
Everything Beautiful Is Far Away (2017)
Stephanie Hunt
Stephanie Hunt is an actor and musician. Her career began on the beloved television series Friday Night Lights. She has also appeared on Glee, Californication and Parenthood. She toured the world with Megan Mullally in their vaudeville performance art troupe Nancy and Beth. She now performs under the moniker Buffalo Hunt. In 2019, Pete directed and Stephanie starred in and wrote the witness protection comedy YOUNGSTOWN.
Selected filmography:
Youngstown (2021)
California (2011)
Friday Night Lights (2006)
Will Madden
Known for his darkly comedic lead roles in the horror/comedy feature films The Wolf of Snow Hollow (Orion Classics) 15 Cameras (sequel to the cult franchise 13 Cameras) and Mean Spirited, Will Madden is an American actor whose films have premiered at Sundance , South by Southwest, and festivals around the world.
His starring role in the 2020 Sundance feature Beast Beast (executive produced by Alec Baldwin) was well received and introduced him to many future collaborators in the independent industry.
Will’s co-writing and acting collaborations with director Pete Oss, including the SXSW 2022 film Jethica, have garnered positive reviews in The New York Times, LA Times, The New Yorker, The Guardian and many other film and newspaper publications.
Selected filmography:
Jethica (2022)
Beast Beast (2020)
The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020)
Frank Moseley
Frank Moseley is an actor and director from Texas who now lives in Los Angeles. He is an alumnus of the 2015 Berlinale Talents, the 2017 NYFF Artist Academy at Lincoln Center, and the 2016 Black Factory Cinema Auteur Workshop led by Abbas Kiarostami in San Antonio de los Banos, Cuba. He also participated as an actor in the 2016 Austin Film Society Artist Intensive under the direction of Charles Burnett. His starring role with Lily Gladstone and Krisha Fairchild in Freeland (SXSW, SFFILM 2020, MUBI) was called “excellent… hauntingly slick” (The Hollywood Reporter) and that he’s a “reliably fantastic American indie mainstay” (Filmmaker Magazine).
Selected filmography:
Quantum Cowboys (2022)
Freeland (2020)
Chained for Life (2018)
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