Raising finance, getting named cast & writing producing and starring in your indie feature films with Sarah Megan Thomas

 This week actress, producer and screenwriter Sarah Megan Thomas joins Giles Alderson to talk about her latest movie Libertè: A Call to Spy

 They talk about raising finance and getting to know your investors, how she approached her financiers and kept them for the next film and how you can wear multiple hats on a film set.

 They natter about Sundance and the film festival lottery, her screenwriting process, casting and how she got star names attached to her first feature film and how to budget, deal with rejections, working with directors as a producer and actor and we talk about her journey as a female filmmaker and her latest brilliant film that she wrote, produced, raised the money for and starred in: Libertè: A Call to Spy .

 WATCH Libertè: A Call to Spy at Whistler Film Festival on 6th Dec 2019

Follow Sarah Megan Thomas on Twitter here www.twitter.com/SarahMeganT

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