In the episode we speak with award winning documentary filmmaker Sophie Robinson. 

Sophie had great success with her first documentary feature film 'My Beautiful Broken Brain' in 2014, which was executive produced by David Lynch, nominated for an Emmy and bought by Netflix. 

We chat with Sophie about what happened after the success of her first feature film and her recent journey setting up her own production company 'So&So Pictures'.

Hosted by Karoline Pelikan (@PelikanPictures) and Paul Hulligan (@paulhully).

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Episode guide:

00:39 - Introduction, Sophie's current projects

03:05 - Making ‘My Beautiful Broken Brain’

06:18 - Working with Netflix

09:06 - Why she started the company and ambitions for it

13:09 - Deciding the company name

15:00 - Promoting the company and why it’s led to more work

19:34 - Some advantages and disadvantages to being a company

23:56 - Using her success and company to give back, the importance of having a mentor

25:45 - The long term vision

26:36 - Top few tips when creating your own company

In this episode we meet with BAFTA award winning editor Joby Gee, who has been editing factual film and TV for over 30 years, on a wide variety of subjects. We speak with him to learn more about the process and challenges of editing feature length documentary films.

Hosted by Karoline Pelikan (@PelikanPictures) and Paul Hulligan (@paulhully).

In this episode we continue our conversation with professional filmmaker Thomas Meadmore, discussing his experience of successfully raising £40k through popular Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter to fund one of his latest feature documentary films titled The Cancer Conflict.

Hosted by Karoline Pelikan (@PelikanPictures) and Paul Hulligan (@paulhully).

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Episode guide:

01:10 - Synopsis of ‘The Cancer Conflict’ and it’s background

04:27 - Starting the project without funding (self financing)

05:52 - Deciding to crowdfund and approach

13:03 - Building your own niche audience, tactics

18:23 - Building the ‘machine’. Marketing tactics to gain followers and collect email addresses

35:26 - Launching the campaign, techniques

40:18 - Creating the Kickstarter ‘campaign page’

45:48 - Thoughts on its performance and response

49:27 - Managing ‘the dip’ (when people stop contributing)

52:28 - Reflections (was it worth it?) and top tips.