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Filmmaking talk from the working side.
Just Shoot It talks filmmaking from the ground level: budgets, collaborators, locations, festivals, pitches, and the weird luck of getting anything made. Its best moments turn casual banter with filmmakers into practical lessons about craft and career momentum.
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Just Shoot It is a long-running filmmaking conversation show with its feet planted in the actual work of directing, writing, producing, and staying employed. It has the rhythm of people who know the business from the inside. The episodes are loose, funny, and sometimes digressive, but the center of gravity is practical. Recent conversations cover micro-budget horror, comedy features, festival launches, AI in commercial work, difficult collaborators, and the strange chain of events that turns a project from an idea into a finished film. The show is especially good when people explain how much filmmaking depends on resourcefulness. Chandler Levack talks about building I Like Movies out of an abandoned Blockbuster and treating the impossible logistics of production almost like faith. Annemarie Jacir describes Palestine 36 through casting, preparation, location limits, and the realities of building a large project without easy infrastructure. BriTANick talk about the frustration of pilots, scripts, and projects that nearly happen before Pizza Movie finally arrives. Travis Wood and Alex Malice bring a full-circle story: a listener asks for advice, years pass, and The Travel Companion reaches Tribeca with Oscilloscope involved. Aaron Padniano uses It Needs Eyes as a way into micro-budget horror, crew experience, and taking a film on the road. Karlyn Hudson helps turn the topic of ending working relationships into a broader conversation about mistakes, inexperience, honesty, and set behavior. Sarah May Bates and Susan Song bring the show into current questions about AI, synthetic performers, brand work, disclosure, and what clients will or will not accept. The appeal is not polish. It is proximity. Just Shoot It feels like sitting near working filmmakers while they compare notes about what broke, what helped, who showed up, and how a career gets assembled one imperfect project at a time.
Made for: For directors, screenwriters, producers, crew members, film students, and movie obsessives who want candid process talk rather than glossy career mythmaking.
What sets it apart: The show mixes interviews with grounded production detail, so conversations about craft keep circling back to budgets, locations, collaborators, festivals, distribution, and set behavior.
Just Shoot It is a podcast about directing hosted by directors. Each week we interview filmmakers on writing, cinematography, development and acting to learn how to build a successful career as a filmmaker in the Hollywood industry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Career candor and production detail turn filmmaker interviews into a practical map of how screen work gets made.
Oren Kaplan and Matt Enloe keep their attention on the work between an idea and a finished film. Their filmmaker interviews move easily from creative choices to the practical machinery behind them, including stalled projects, limited budgets, difficult locations and changing…
An abandoned Blockbuster supplies a movie set, and your impossible location hunt has competition.
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A loose opening gives way to a candid, grounded look at scrappy filmmaking across Chandler Levesque's recent films.
This episode spends much of its time on Chandler Levesque's two new releases, Roommates and Mile and Kicks, while also returning to I Like Movies.
A dinner conversation leads to an attachment, then a year of pre-production and hand-built logistics.
Annemarie Jacir gives the film a clean burst of momentum through a dinner conversation that changes the practical stakes at once: Jeremy Irons and his wife hear about the project, Irons offers to read the script if there is a role for him, and she can return to her producers…
A candid look at Pizza Movie, stalled projects, and the practical choice between Edinburgh Fringe and a changing Hollywood plan.
Just Shoot It is sharpest when it sits with the distance between BriTANick's visible credits and the harder, messier work of getting anything finished.
A candid conversation about owning mistakes and spotting the difference between inexperience and pretending.
A mini-roast about bad collaborations gives Just Shoot It 518 its shape, but the real subject is more useful: how to decide when a shaky working relationship can be repaired, and when it is better to move on.
A grounded conversation about AI actors, brand campaigns, and disclosure rules for generated media.
AI enters Just Shoot It by way of a practical question about creative work: what changes when AI-made actors and social content start showing up in campaigns?
A grounded discussion of hiring a cinematographer who can help a bare brief grow into a more considered image.
Matt Enloe and Oren Kaplan keep this single-episode review grounded in the practical question of how cinematographers get hired, with the conversation staying close to set work, taste, and collaboration.
A grounded filmmaking conversation where preparation turns Palestine 36 into a material, contested world.
Palestine 36 comes through as both a film about 1936 Palestine and a study in how much work it takes to make that history feel physical on screen.
Screenwriting craft with production scars.
Campus talks where ideas meet the screen.
Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant explain one topic per episode, from the bicameral mind to Boeing's MCAS.
Multi-part dramatized retellings of scandals like OceanGate's Titan and the Lehman Brothers collapse.
Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins dissect Oscar races, new releases, and Hollywood news.
This episode features an interview with showrunner and director Kat Coiro, discussing her career, approach to filmmaking, and insights on TV production for shows like She-Hulk and Matlock.
Hosts Matt Enloe and Oren Kaplan discuss the complexities of hiring cinematographers for filmmaking projects.
Hosts Matt and Oran interview Annemarie Jacir, director of the Oscar-nominated film 'Palestine 36'.
Just Shoot It brings Chandler Levesque on to talk through a very full stretch in her career.
Annemarie Jacir talks about the film she was writing.
Oren Kaplan and Adam Loth bring on Nick Kotcher and Brian McElhinney of Britannic.
This episode features filmmakers Alex Mallis and Travis Wood discussing their movie 'The Travel Companion', Travis's journey from podcast listener to Tribeca-premiering director, and their creative process.
This episode features an interview with Aaron Pagniano discussing micro-budget horror filmmaking, his new feature 'It Needs Eyes', and innovative distribution strategies like touring the film across the country.
Matt and Oren Kaplan open with a quick roast, then bring Karlyn Hudson into the conversation.
This episode features hosts Matt and Oren engaging in casual, personal conversation about their experiences and frustrations, framed as a lighthearted break from their usual educational content on filmmaking.
Sarah May Bates and Susan Song join Matt and Warren Kaplan on Just Shoot It 516 to talk about AI, commercial directing, and acting jobs.
This episode features commercial director Maya Margolina discussing her unique approach to pitching commercials, contrasting it with the hosts' comedy-based methods and exploring how vocabulary and background influence pitching style.
This episode features an interview with showrunner and director Kat Coiro, discussing her approach to filmmaking, directing techniques, and balancing a career with family life.
Matt and Oren discuss their evolving philosophies and practical steps for hiring cinematographers as crucial collaborators in filmmaking.