
From analog rejection to digital resurrection. Films Not Made unearths both Hollywood and indie film projects too wild, weird, or ambitious to ever hit the big screen. Hosts Avi Zev Weider and Amy Hobby invite writers, directors, and producers to join them in ripping open old wounds by pulling out abandoned scripts, impossible casting lists, and brutal rejection letters. Honest conversations with ... more
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 11 | Founded | 4 months ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | TechnologyTV & Film | |||

Adam Schartoff of Filmwax Radio is a veteran nearing 900 episodes interviewing everyone from Gus Van Sant to Werner Herzog. Filmwax began in 2011 as a small film series in a Brooklyn bar, quickly evolving into a podcast by 2012.
Adam, Avi and Amy di... more
Dan Mirvish, co-founder of Slamdance, comes on to talk about the unmade film that haunted him for years. Stamp & Deliver was a darkly comic postal western — think No Country for Old Men meets Office Space — and it got closer than most. Sets were buil... more
It's been over 25 years since Matthew Rhys first read the script of The Amateur Pornographer. This project broke the heart of writer-director Christopher Monger.
In this special Backlot episode, actor Matthew Rhys, along with Ian McNiece and Meryn W... more
Christopher Monger, a Welsh native, was fresh off the Miramax release of his film The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain starring Hugh Grant. His next project was to shoot in a small town in Wales, and producer Ted Hope felt it wa... more
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Such a pleasure to listen and so much fun to get to hear the insights of the filmmakers and industry players with their hair down, pressure off , dishing about how it all went down.
And that’s so right. I love the idea of hearing from people that took a hit (a blow) and learned from it. And what fun for the guests (and us) to get a look at what could be thanks to some clever AI trailer making of something that never was. It comes to life in front of their eyes and lends a new perspective that sparks great conversations from the cutting room floor.
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Films Not Made focuses on abandoned, unmade, or radically reimagined film projects, exploring why they never reached production and how AI and new development tools could resurrect them. Conversations span indie and studio worlds, featuring writers, directors, producers, and industry veterans who share origin stories, pitching mishaps, financing hurdles, and behind-the-scenes drama. The show often highlights how technology—especially AI—changes development, packaging, and concepting, while maintaining a candid, humorous tone about failure, resilience, and creative agency. Noteworthy is the regular use of AI-generated pitches and decks to reframe projects, offering listeners practical takeaways on pitching, ownership, and adapting ambitious ... more
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Recent guests on Films Not Made include:
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2. Dan Mirvish
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