03/11/2025
🚫 NEW EPISODE ALERT 🚫
What It REALLY Takes To Become a Director (Not What You Think) | Jack Spring
Ever wondered how filmmakers actually make it — without money, connections or film school privilege?
In this episode Sounds From The Dockside, we sit down with director Jack Spring, the working-class filmmaker behind Three Day Millionaire — the Netflix-picked Northern heist comedy with Colm Meaney, James Burrows, and Robbie Gee.
From 50 rejections a day to raising film budgets as a teenager, calling producers who hang up, and scraping together every resource possible — Jack’s journey isn’t glamorous… but it's REAL. We discussed Jack's new film 'Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint' that features critically acclaimed actor Richard E. Grant, made famous with the likes of Star Wars, Withnail and I and Game of Thrones, who will shoot alongside co-star John Bradley - best known for his role as Samwell Tarly.
If you love directors who built it from nothing — think Guy Ritchie, Shane Meadows, Danny Boyle energy — this episode is for you.
🧠 What You'll Learn
✅ How to break into filmmaking with zero industry access
✅ Why rejection is fuel, not failure
✅ Becoming a director without film school
✅ Behind the scenes of Three Day Millionaire
✅ Working with major actors such as Colm Meaney, Richard E Grant and Karl Pilkington
✅ Comedy community: Seth Rogen, Zach Galifianakis, Kristen Wiig influence
✅ Turning local stories into global films
✅ What it really takes — persistence, humiliation, confidence & vision
🎧 For Fans Of
🎬 Shane Meadows
🎬 Guy Ritchie
🎬 Danny Boyle
🎬 Richard Linklater
🎬 Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg
🎤 Working-class creative voices
🏭 Northern storytelling
Northern stories. Real creatives. No industry fluff.
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