Do We Even Need Reps? How Violent Ends Director John-Michael Powell Made His Theatrical Feature Without Them

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 school artwork program, to slicing indie movies that made it to festivals like Sundance and SXSW, to enhancing the Emmy-winning Netflix collection American Manhunt. Remarkably, he crafted a function starring Billy Magnussen and Alexandra Shipp—with out brokers, managers, or competition assist. This episode provides a uncooked, inspiring, and tactical have a look at constructing a profession from the bottom up, learn how to 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 filmmakingWhy getting lower from a school program helped form his resilienceThe lengthy highway from writing Violent Ends in 2013 to securing funding a decade laterThe technique behind securing title actors with out conventional representationHow he used relationships and resourcefulness to get a bidding warWhat filmmakers ought to find out about real-money provides and escrowWhy adaptability and microbudget considering nonetheless matter—on any scaleHow not having illustration can really work in your favorBuilding a manufacturing firm (Midnight Highway) and what’s coming nextGuests:Subscribe to the No Movie College Podcast on:Get your query answered on the podcast by emailing podcast@nofilmschool.comListen to extra episodes of the No Movie College podcast proper right here:This episode of The No Movie College Podcast was produced by Ryan Koo.