Making a microbudget indiefilm, Crowdfunding to Apple TV: The Story of 'Time Rewind' with writer-director Lincoln Fenner & actor Tim Cullingworth-Hudson

February 27, 2026·1 hr 7 min·6 clips

How did a microbudget time-travel film shot in nine days win 33 awards and land on Apple TV?

It begins with cake. Tobias Faes has Giles in Bulgaria, Dom somewhere in London, and the show back in its loose filmmaker rhythm. Then Time Rewind takes over. Lincoln Fenner and Tim Cullingworth-Hudson talk through a time-travel feature that began small and still made it to festivals and Apple TV. The premise gives the chat some edge. A man wakes with amnesia and is suspected of murdering his teenage daughter, so the craft talk has more bite than the banter first suggests. Fenner is clear about permission. He hoped a producer might come aboard, but he already knew waiting for that could leave the film frozen forever. That is the spine of the episode. A producer not helping becomes an indie lesson about cameras, cinematographers, producers, studios, money, and the excuses filmmakers learn to trust too much. No magic door opens. The shift is deciding that missing resources are not proof the film cannot happen. Giles and Dom keep nudging toward the practical turning point, while Fenner keeps bringing it back to mindset and working around what people say you need. Tim adds to the team energy. By the end, everyone is joking about Time Rewind, Tim Rewind, and Team Rewind, which is very much the show's kind of loose punning. The closing note is cheerful but direct. Make the indie film, the studio film, or whatever film can actually move, because waiting around can become its own failure. Scrappy, warm craft talk, with a useful reminder that microbudget filmmaking is hard, but some locked doors are only locked in your head.

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A limited-budget time-travel indie story that keeps circling back to the work of getting a film made.

Time Rewind is strongest when it stays close to the nuts and bolts of making an indie feature. Lincoln Fenner and Tim Cullingworth-Hudson talk through the limited budget, the festival run, and the Apple TV distribution, and the real value is in how plainly they describe the…

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A limited-budget time travel indie that still won festivals and landed on Apple TV.

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