Indie Film Hustle - A Filmmaking Podcast

Alex Ferrari started Indie Film Hustle back in 2015 with a simple premise: independent filmmakers deserve real, unfiltered advice about how the business actually works. Nearly a thousand episodes later, the show has featured three-time Oscar winner Oliver Stone, Men in Black director Barry Sonnenfeld, and Avatar cinematographer Russell Carpenter, among many others. The focus sits squarely on the intersection of creative filmmaking and business survival — how to get your film financed, distributed, and in front of audiences without a studio backing you. Episodes cover everything from color grading workflows and post-production pipelines to the harsh economics of self-distribution. Ferrari's own experience making indie features gives the show credibility, and he asks the kind of blunt questions that most interviewers avoid. More recently, guest hosts like Dave Bullis have stepped in to lead conversations, which has shifted the dynamic a bit. Long-time listeners have noted this change, and some miss Ferrari's particular energy at the mic. The show also runs more ads than it used to. That said, with a 4.7-star rating from 299 reviews and an archive stretching back over a decade, the depth of knowledge in this back catalog is enormous. If you are a videographer who wants to understand the bigger picture of how films get made, funded, and sold, there are hundreds of hours of genuinely useful material here. Episodes typically run 45 minutes to two hours.