The Make It Podcast

The Make It Podcast MAKE IT is the film podcast that provides a behind-the-scenes look at the filmmaking process. If you love movies, this is your spot.

We dive into indie gems, massive blockbusters, cinema history, and everything in between.

New Film Brief is up.Nick opens with a confession: he wears Stan Smiths, his wife wears Stan Smiths, his kids wear Stan ...
09/16/2026

New Film Brief is up.

Nick opens with a confession: he wears Stan Smiths, his wife wears Stan Smiths, his kids wear Stan Smiths. If you'd stopped any of them and asked who Stan Smith is, they couldn't have told you.

Danny Lee's documentary Who Is Stan Smith? answers that. Former world No. 1. 1971 U.S. Open champion. 1972 Wimbledon champion. A player who came up at USC, competed as the open era reshaped the sport, and stood next to his friend Arthur Ashe through it. The film mixes archival match footage, Smith's own home footage, and interviews with his family, John McEnroe, and Darryl "DMC" McDaniels.

Nick's read: "Smith doesn't need to be reinvented; he simply needs to be revealed."

Know someone who owns a pair? Send this their way.

🍎 https://apple.co/4xoUCsV
🟢 https://open.spotify.com/episode/2iBOgJg0K1B4ndxYtunp2O?si=XAPnwVEvTASAVMdmPoO6mA
🎥 https://www.youtube.com/

Alexis Gambis earned a PhD in molecular biology, then went to film school, and got doubted by both crowds. Biologists th...
09/15/2026

Alexis Gambis earned a PhD in molecular biology, then went to film school, and got doubted by both crowds. Biologists thought he was wasting the degree. Film students thought a scientist couldn't handle emotion. He answered with The Fly Room, Son of Monarchs (Alfred P. Sloan Prize, Sundance 2021), and a streaming platform for science films called Labocine.

New SUMMARIES episode ends on a question worth arguing about: if you could safely edit one thing in your own DNA, would you?

Apple: apple.co/4hJDqI6 → https://apple.co/4yCBMzB
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/3lloxKH7dGYIqrLgUAkBU4?si=ansPLik6SmC4vfOD3oeLWg → https://open.spotify.com/episode/2YZJMqRQSBZLK3yqFABRRe?si=RlNv9V9TQi2J6FaUlT9Lfg

09/10/2026

There's an actual belief system underlying the ownership fight, and it has a creed: all information should be readily available to everyone. No secrets, nothing hidden. Follow that to its conclusion, and you arrive at the end of IP and Copyright, not as collateral damage, but as the objective. https://youtu.be/LCkk0H5bRGg

09/10/2026

New Reel Q&A (enjoy)! Three minutes of your time, advice for an entire career. First, stop describing your film as a comedy. Or a drama. Or a horror. Say it's a comedy drama horror — because that's the algorithmic candy the streaming platforms love to snack on, and a single-genre description gives them almost nothing to work with. Also covered: what festival laurels are genuinely worth when it comes to a sale, how to shape a submission run around a budget instead of hope (hometown festival, a couple of moonshots, then middle tier and niche), why fans end up following the filmmaker rather than the film — and, because Papa Bear asked, why the fabric of space is so threadbare. :)

MAKE IT is for the KIDS! 🛒 Membership starts at $10 a month, and the tiers are counted in students rather than perks — Line Producer level helps one student MAKE IT, Executive Producer helps five: https://themakeitpodcast.com/supporters/pricing

09/08/2026

Here's the question that stopped Indie Talk #104 cold: what will the next generation be nostalgic for? Not Saturday morning cartoons — those don't exist. Not a shelf of tapes. Memes. And memes are candy: they get you high for a minute and then you move on to the next one, with no connection to the person on the other side of them. It's a real conversation about what we lose when everything we love is a file someone else can delete. Full episode is out now.

🎥 https://youtu.be/LCkk0H5bRGg
🟢 https://open.spotify.com/episode/1fOITKRPwNJG7m6H7Epzvs?si=Okw9nwx6R2-Kud4lGpzRuQ

Sony is killing physical discs, but if you go 100% digital they can take back "your" game whenever they want. Xbox did t...
09/08/2026

Sony is killing physical discs, but if you go 100% digital they can take back "your" game whenever they want. Xbox did the opposite: if you put in a disc from three consoles ago, you keep a digital license and can still resell the disc. Indie Talk #104 is out, and it turns into a much bigger discussion about what you actually own.

🎥 https://youtu.be/LCkk0H5bRGg
🍎 https://apple.co/4ysntgY

09/04/2026

Producer Papa Bear drops one of the most satisfying pieces of film trivia—who was the only person named Oscar ever to win an Academy Award?

09/03/2026

Oscar Boyson shares his stories working with the Neistat brothers, Greta Gerwig, and Noah Baumbach. He reflects on how making movies the indie way (low-budget, hands-on, wearing many hats) translates into a pure connection with the audience. This is a reminder that money isn't always the answer.

Full Episode: https://youtu.be/FOM8-oasYZw

09/02/2026

"Ideas are common. Perseverance is rare."

That's Casey Neistat's line, and Oscar Boyson has been running on it since he answered the Craigslist ad that put him in the Neistats' studio in 2007.

Roughly twenty years of producing other people's work and making his own shorts on the side later, he directed his first feature. He's blunt about what that actually took — and about the people he meets who have the million-dollar idea and want someone else to go build it.

Full conversation on YouTube. 🎬
https://youtu.be/FOM8-oasYZw

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