On this episode of Timecode: Dead Air, we rap with AD Paul Uddo, the guy who makes movies actually happen. He started out as a PA on The Skeleton Key and Factory Girl and hustled his way into just about every job on set. He’s done it all. He’s been a first AD, second unit director, unit production manager, line producer, co-producer, just to name a few. We discuss how working on indie films differs from working on big-budget Hollywood pictures. He also gives advice on how to keep any production from going sideways and flying off the rails.
His credits run from big studio to the low-budget indie: 10 Cloverfield Lane, Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled, Best Picture winner Green Book, and a long stretch of horror — Black Box, Evil Eye, Bingo Hell, Imaginary, and There’s Something Wrong with the Children.
Look for his latest, A Christmas Kind of Love, coming to Netflix during the holidays.