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Featured on today’s episode<\/a> of KCRW’s talk program, The Business<\/a>, host Matt Holzman spoke with British filmmaker Gareth Edwards<\/a>, whose film “Monsters” opens this weekend after staying abuzz with sci-fi\/horror audiences since its premiere at SXSW.<\/p>\n Having fund-raised and made his first feature film for $250,000* using his visual effects chops and a mix of guerrilla-style filmmaking plus do-it-yourself tenacity, he learned two lessons: the constraints of a small budget leads to smarter decisions and the lack of control leads to creative surprises. In the interview with KCRW, which begins 19 minutes into the program, Edwards shares a unique story of how a scene with cows came to be: they were just in his way to another location.<\/p>\n After collaborating on post and doing the visual effects himself, he ended up making the money back on foreign sales and just took 50 meetings over a 2-week visit in Los Angeles, which led to a development deal from Timur Bekmambetov, the director of “Wanted.”<\/p>\n His feature, starring Whitney Able and Scoot McNairy, opens in limited release on October 29, 2010. It is also currently streaming on Amazon ($9.99). The film has multiple<\/a> official<\/a> websites, including one in Russian.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_IshZoIwz_o<\/p>\n (* Budget according to the interview. IMDb notes $15,000.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Featured on today’s episode of KCRW’s talk program, The Business, host Matt Holzman spoke with British filmmaker Gareth Edwards, whose film “Monsters” opens this weekend after staying abuzz with sci-fi\/horror audiences since its premiere at SXSW. Having fund-raised and made his first feature film for $250,000* using his visual effects chops and a mix of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6194,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions\/6194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}