Podcasts by Forget The Box
The ultimate web series podcast, talking with experts to teach you how to best make, market, and monetize your digital independent series. Hosted by Stareable, the largest community of web series creators, each episode will focus on a different aspect of the production process, covering everything from the idea, to fundraising, to editing, to film festivals, and beyond. Topics will also include: Brainstorming | Screenwriting | Crowdfunding | Pre-Production | Contracts | Casting| Marketing | Film sets | Getting an agent | Social Media | Post-Production | Sponsorships | Branding | Brand deals | Directing | Producing | Acting | Cinematography | Pitching your web series | Distribution | Networking
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The future of Stareable, according to the team behind it! from 2019-01-01T05:00
The four (4!) people behind Stareable spill all our secrets, from why we're not called Shareable, where we got our bright yellow theme, and what to look forward to as a member of our community i...
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Network like a pro with director/producer Jack Ferry (Not Too Deep with Grace Helbig, Mr. Student Body President) from 2018-12-18T10:00
Jack Ferry is a director and producer who's worked with MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, Discovery, IFC, Netflix, and more, and knows better than most how valuable forming relationships with yo...
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UTA's Chief Innovation Officer on the State of the Industry from 2018-12-11T10:00
UTA's Chief Innovation Officer, Brent Weinstein, joins Forget The Box this week to chat the state of the entertainment industry, how agents see the world, and more.
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Sundance Institute fellowship managers on self-release strategies from 2018-12-04T10:00
Take your release into your own hands! Liz Manashil and Jess Fuselier of the Sundance Institute's Creative Distribution Fellowship talk through how to successfully self-release your content, how...
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Kaitlyn Alexander (Carmilla, Couple-ish) On Being Everything To Everyone from 2018-11-27T10:00
We talk queer and nonbinary representation in media, being rocketed into fame with Carmilla, creating and producing an entire web series from the ground-up in 6 months flat, and more. The pressu...
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Underrepresentation Women in Media (Stareable Fest 2018 panel) from 2018-11-20T10:00
Join Abra Potkin (Verizon OATH), Keisha Zollar (The Opposition with Jordan Klepper), Daryn Strauss (Downsized), and Sinead Persaud (Shipwrecked Comedy) as they discuss the challenges and opportu...
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Getting an Agent With Web Series/TV/Film Creator Jeremy Redleaf from 2018-11-13T10:00
Want representation? Perhaps a timely theme and a creative supplemental content scheme is the way to go. It certainly was for Jeremy Redleaf when he created Odd Jobs and subsequently won a Strea...
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Carmilla Co-Creator on The Future of Interactive Storytelling from 2018-11-06T10:00
Transmedia is dying... or is it? Stephanie Ouaknine, producer and co-creator of the multi-award-winning series Carmilla (and its feature film) helps welcome Forget The Box into season 2 and walk...
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Distribution and Deals with Passionflix CEO Tosca Musk from 2018-09-04T09:00
Want to sell your series but don't know where to start? Filmmaker and Passionflix CEO Tosca Musk talks you through all things distribution and mainstream deals in this, our SEASON 1 FINALE episo...
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Making low budget feel high quality with The Feels from 2018-08-28T09:00
Low budget doesn't have to feel cheap. Tim Manley and Naje Lataillade, co-creators of The Feels, made the first season of their Best of Stareable Fest web series for only $500. Since then, their...
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Building Your Audience: Advice from the Experts from 2018-08-21T09:00
Audience building made easy! This panel, featuring Alex LeMay, Eugene Sun Park, and J. Sibley Law, originally took place at Stareable Fest 2018, and covers every possible aspect of audience buil...
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Marketing Your Web Series Before You Release With Tom R. Pike from 2018-08-14T09:00
No episodes? No problem! There’s still plenty you can do to promote your upcoming work, according to Personal Space co-creator Tom R. Pike. He talks cheap and eas...
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Web series editing, according MTV Movie Award Winner Joshua Caldwell from 2018-08-07T09:00
Set yourself up for success. Director, writer, and producer Joshua Caldwell (NEGATIVE, LAYOVER) details how your post-production process starts with every directi...
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Directing tips from Yulin Kuang (I Ship It on CW Seed) from 2018-07-31T09:00
Be the best boss. Writer/director Yulin Kuang walks you through how to mitigate on set fighting with grace, how to communicate with actors rather than talking at ...
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Shipwrecked Comedy On All Things Pre-Production from 2018-07-24T09:00
After earning $66k on Kickstarter, their hard work was just beginning. Mary Kate Wiles, Sinead Persaud, Sean Persaud, and Sarah Grace Hart of Shipwrecked Comedy w...
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Breaking into the mainstream with Alex LeMay (YouTube Red, Go90, Disney) from 2018-07-17T09:00
Is $250k a year as a filmmaker possible? Alex LeMay, showrunner and director for YouTube Red, Go90, Disney, and more, thinks it is. Not just possible- he thinks w...
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How to be a no-budget professional with Kate Hackett from 2018-07-10T09:00
Be a professional. We talked with award-winning actress and filmmaker Kate Hackett about what contracts you need, why you need them, and how to work with friends ...
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Hire the best crew for your web series with advice from Emmy-Nominated producer Allison Vanore from 2018-07-03T09:00
Build your web series dream team! Allison Vanore is the Emmy-nominated producer of the web series Vanity, starring Denise Richards, and the Head of Production at ...
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Auditioning and casting best practices with Ashley Clements of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries from 2018-06-26T09:00
Nudity comes with a huge pay bump. We sat down with Ashley Clements, the star of the Emmy Award-winning Lizzie Bennet Diaries (among many other digital credits) t...
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Crowdfunding simplified with Seed&Spark’s Director of Crowdfunding, Christina Raia from 2018-06-19T09:00
You can fundraise without losing friends- it’s true! Christina Raia, award-winning independent filmmaker, 4-time crowdfunding success story, and Seed&Spark’s Dire...
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Web series creator Katie Tibaldi (Seeking Sublet) helps develop and choose your next indie TV project from 2018-06-12T10:30
TruTV associate producer talks development. Katie Tibaldi, creator/director of the unreleased yet already award-winning web series Seeking Sublet as well as an Associate Producer on TruTV's At H...
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Bernie Su, an Emmy Award-winning web series creator talks starting from the beginning from 2018-06-12T10:00
An Emmy-winning idea can come from anyone and anywhere. On this inaugural episode of Forget The Box, we start from the beginning, talking brainstorming, how reality can help shape your creativit...
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Forget The Box | A new web series podcast by Stareable from 2018-06-06T03:42:59
Stareable is dedicated to helping creators make, market, and monetize amazing web series and independent television. But while we have historically done that through our blo...
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