IndieWire's Filmmaker Toolkit
278 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★ - 77 ratingsInterviews with leading film and TV creators about their process and craft. From screenwriting to film language to cinematography, we'll be examining the innovative ways today's best filmmakers are getting their visions out into the world.
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'The Painter And The Thief' Dir Benjamin Ree & Painter Barbora Kysilkova
December 02, 2020 18:45 - 49 minutesA fascinating filmmaking discussion about how echoes Truffaut, Scorsese, Peckinpah, and Bergman found their way into this intimate nonfiction drama. Ree and “the Painter” (Kysilkova) talk about their unique collaboration and what happened off-screen before filming, while the director also opens up about how he was mentally drained and ready to give up on the film before getting an important call from Sundance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Dick Johnson Is Dead" Dir. Kirsten Johnson
November 17, 2020 13:30 - 1 hourOne of the most cinematically exciting, joyous, and sad films of the year, the director behind "Cameraperson" talks about her process of making a Netflix film with her father about his dementia and inevitable death. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
'Boys State' Directors Amanda McBaine & Jesse Moss
November 10, 2020 17:20 - 1 hourHow ‘Son of Saul,' 'Lincoln' and other scripted narrative films Influenced this Documentary’s Up-Close and Widescreen Subjectivity. From casting to editing, a deep dive into the Grand Jury Prize winner for Best Documentary at Sundance 2020, and the frontrunner for the 2021 Oscar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
'Time' Director Garrett Bradley
October 28, 2020 12:31 - 55 minutesPossibly the film of the year, Garrett Bradley takes us inside the creation of her poetic cinematic process in making a film about love, family, and incarceration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Succession" Deep Dive: Season 2 Finale
August 25, 2020 23:23 - 40 minutes'Succession' Deep Dive: Creator Jeremy Armstrong and His Craft Team Break Down the Season 2 Finale – "The Is Not for Tears." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
'Watchmen' Deep Dive: Ep 6 'This Extraordinary Being'
August 17, 2020 20:34 - 48 minutesDamon Lindelof and the ‘Watchmen’ nominated crafts team analyze Episode 6 “The Extraordinary Being" and the filmmaking behind Hooded Justice's origin story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Deep Dive Podcast Trailer ("Watchmen")
August 14, 2020 21:13 - 2 minutesIndieWire is launching a new Craft podcast called Deep Dive on Monday with Watchmen creator Damon Lindelof and his creative team of artisans breaking down episode 6 "This Extraordinary Being." To learn more listen to this trailer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Ramy" Creator Ramy Youssef
July 10, 2020 15:30 - 39 minutesThe Hulu series' star and co-creator talks about stepping into the showrunner role and directing four episodes for Season 2. Also discussed: Editing during the pandemic, short films vs. formulaic TV structuring, and the letter he shared from "Ramy" parking coordinator Jon Johnson Sr. that went viral throughout the production world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Better Call Saul" Showrunner Peter Gould
July 08, 2020 16:25 - 1 hourGould on how he is approaching the end of “Better Call Saul” and his writers room tackles character on the series that is a prequel to "Breaking Bad.” We also discuss how the visual and aural language of the show has evolved from co-creator Vince Gilligan's original series. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Watchmen" Director/EP Nicole Kassell
July 06, 2020 23:56 - 42 minutesThe executive producer and director of episodes 1, 2, and 8 breaks down how she translated the graphic novel's cynical tone and visual style for creator Damon Lindelof. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"The Good Fight" Creators Michelle And Robert King
July 02, 2020 12:00 - 46 minutes"The Good Fight" Creators Michelle And Robert King by Chris O'Falt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"The Loudest Voice" Writer/Producer Gabriel Sherman
June 30, 2020 12:00 - 45 minutesThe reporter who got inside Fox News talks about adapting his definitive book on Roger Ailes into the limited series starring Russell Crowe and how Ailes was a real life Citizen Kane, who mixed the talents of Leni Riefenstahl and Louis B. Mayer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Devs" writer/director Alex Garland
June 26, 2020 12:00 - 39 minutesThe "Ex Machina" and "Annihilation" director on his move to TV and his limited series "Devs." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Beastie Boys Story" Dir. Spike Jonze & Editor Jeff Buchanan
June 23, 2020 15:36 - 46 minutesSpike talks about trying to capture the essence of Beastie Boys’ friendship and the unusual (and totally “unprofessional”) creative process he, the band, and editor Jeff Buchanan went through in creating this unique documentary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"The Mandalorian" Cinematographer Greig Fraser
June 19, 2020 16:51 - 1 hourReal-time virtual sets are Hollywood’s future. These enormous (75 x 20 feet) curved LED walls serve as a live backdrop that eclipses the need for green screen. But what does that mean for filmmaking? We talked to Fraser about exactly that. The cinematographer has been pioneering “Stagecraft” with ILM for years and with "The Mandalorian" being its first large scale implementation, he saw firsthand both the possibilities and early limitations of this ground-breaking technology. …Fraser also t...
"Never Rarely Sometimes Always" dir Eliza Hittman & Editor Scott Cummings
April 02, 2020 18:25 - 39 minutesOne of the best reviewed films of 2020 is coming to VOD early (Apr 3), but before its theatrical run got cut short by COVID-19 I sat down with writer/director Eliza Hittman and one of her closest collaborators, her husband and editor Scott Cummings, to talk about the origins and making of this incredible film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Portrait Of A Lady On Fire" Director Céline Sciamma
February 18, 2020 17:00 - 37 minutesSciamma talks about how to film desire, memory, and getting out of the conventions of a normal love story. She breaks down the creation of the incredible chanting song and bonfire scene, the laborious process of lighting the interiors, and how filming the ideas behind a movie can be the most rewarding type of cinema. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Parasite" Director Bong Joon Ho
February 17, 2020 18:19 - 21 minutesWith the help of translator Sharon Choi, director Bong talks about the careful construction of the Oscar winner “Parasite.” From his days of being a tutor and that feeling of infiltrating a wealthy family's home, to the careful construction of the house set in his film, to the profound influence of Akira Kurosawa’s “High and Low.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"The Irishman" Editor Thelma Schoonmaker
January 30, 2020 19:54 - 49 minutesHow after over 40 years of working with Martin Scorsese, "The Irishman" offered something the 3-time Academy Award winning editor had never done before. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Booksmart" Director Olivia Wilde
January 06, 2020 13:32 - 43 minutesWilde explains how Big Lebowski influenced Booksmart, being intimidated about not having gone to film school, advice she got from Clint Eastwood about directing herself (in her upcoming thriller/horror film), and building ultimate high school movie soundtrack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"The Farewell" Director Lulu Wang
January 02, 2020 14:36 - 32 minutesLulu Wang on learning not to compromise her voice, how and why she used widescreen long takes, shooting in China, her next sci-fi project, and her real life grandma. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Little Women" Director Greta Gerwig
December 26, 2019 14:00 - 46 minutesGerwig goes deep into the process, craft and inspiration behind her remarkable adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Little Women" director Greta Gerwig
December 26, 2019 14:00 - 46 minutes - 42 MBGerwig goes deep into the process, craft and inspiration behind her remarkable adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women."
"1917" Director Sam Mendes & Cinematographer Roger Deakins
December 23, 2019 13:10 - 36 minutesDeakins and Mendes talk about shooting their new WWI film so it was experienced as one-long take. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Quentin Tarantino with "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" Cinematographer Robert Richardson
December 20, 2019 18:50 - 39 minutesTarantino talks about about falling in love with Richardson and the unusual circumstances in which he hired him to shoot "Kill Bill." While the two collaborators breakdown their most recent film "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood." Recorded at Camerimage in Poland, where Tarantino and Richardson were honored for their work together. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Uncut Gems" Directors Josh & Benny Safdie
December 17, 2019 14:59 - 44 minutesThe Safdie Brothers break down their improbable 10 year journey to making "Uncut Gems," working their way through a handful of different NBA stars (including Kobe Bryant), while "earning their stripes" and learning how to tell a story of this scale. What it meant to go union, how famed cinematographer Darius Khondji helped shape the project and sound mixer Skip Lievsay introduced them to incredible possibilities with sound. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood" Director Marielle Heller
December 13, 2019 15:49 - 34 minutesHow Heller emotionally grounded a story about Mr. Rogers and made it her own. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Knives Out" Director Rian Johnson [SPOILERS]
December 05, 2019 19:31 - 30 minutesSpoiler Warning: Rian Johnson gets into the nuts and bolts of how he built his modern day Agatha Christie whodunit, the murder mystery "Knives Out." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Waves" Director Trey Edward Shults
November 22, 2019 14:16 - 31 minutesTrey talks about writing / scoring Waves to Frank Ocean, Kayne West and Animal Collective, while mining his personal story of grief, as we break down the color, sound and movement of his remarkable third film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"American Factory" Directors Julia Reichert & Steven Bognar
November 19, 2019 22:16 - 58 minutesThe duo behind the Netflix's "American Factory" share their insight into how documentary filmmakers can gain trust and access, crafting story, and how they shot this remarkable film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Marriage Story" Director Noah Baumbach
November 14, 2019 13:00 - 34 minutes"Marriage Story" Director Noah Baumbach by Chris O'Falt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"One Child Nation" director Nanfu Wang
November 12, 2019 14:00 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MB"One Child Nation" director Nanfu Wang by Chris O'Falt
"One Child Nation" Director Nanfu Wang
November 12, 2019 14:00 - 42 minutes"One Child Nation" Director Nanfu Wang by Chris O'Falt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Ford v Ferrari" Director James Mangold
November 08, 2019 17:03 - 32 minutesMangold breaks down what’s wrong with our modern day green screen, sensory overload action films and how his new racing film, “Ford v Ferrari,” is a throwback to a more classical mode of Hollywood filmmaking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"The Lighthouse" Director Robert Eggers
October 31, 2019 15:56 - 26 minutesMost Screenwriters Work to Music, Robert Eggers Listened to Waves and Wind in creating Willem Dafoe's Pirate Dialect. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Francis Ford Coppola on "Cotton Club Encore"
October 11, 2019 19:10 - 31 minutesCotton Club was intended to be a well balanced story about the black and white performers, patrons and gangsters of the legendary Harlem club in the 1920s & 30s. Coppola talks about the pressure he faced to trim down the film so it focused more on Richard Gere's story and his recent effort to restore and re-edit it to bring the film back to what was originally intended. "Cotton Club Encore" is theaters this weekend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Ad Astra" Director James Gray
September 25, 2019 16:32 - 37 minutesOn Kubrick, Brad Pitt and how hard it is to make a film in a black box with one actor on a wire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Monos" Director Alejandro Landes
September 20, 2019 18:00 - 50 minutesPraised by Guillermo del Toro, Aronofsky, Iñárritu and critics everywhere, Landes is one of the most exciting new directors to emerge this year. On the podcast he talks about making his allegory for the 60 year Colombian Civil War, shooting in impossible situations, and how he got composer Mica Levi to score the film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Goldfinch" Cinematographer Roger Deakins
September 13, 2019 12:00 - 34 minutesThe 14 time Oscar nominee on the importance of the right location, why VFX shouldn't be separate from cinematography, and how Donna Tart's novel felt personal to him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Escape At Dannemora" Director Ben Stiller
August 28, 2019 12:19 - 44 minutesStiller on what it took to make his prison escape series as authentic as humanly possible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Parts Unknown: Anthony Bourdain" Exec Producers Lydia Tenaglia & Chris Collins
August 22, 2019 00:21 - 53 minutesTenaglia and Collins talk about their 19 year collaboration with Bourdain, how he found his voice, the show evolved, and avoided the traps of cookie-cutter TV. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Russian Doll" Creator/Director Leslye Headland
June 20, 2019 11:29 - 43 minutesHeadland talks about the fear of how to end the show and the misogynist side of the auteur theory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" Creators Amy Sherman-Palladino & Dan Palladino
June 18, 2019 23:27 - 38 minutesThe husband-wife duo dig into S2 of their Emmy winning show to explore how they've translated their trademark dialogue into cinematic visuals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Game Of Thrones" Director Miguel Sapochnik
June 13, 2019 21:33 - 2 hoursThe director behind “Battle of the Bastards” and “Hardhome” takes us inside the creation of some the series’ biggest moments. Sapochnik also brings us inside the show’s final season, including the arduous 55-night shoot of “The Longest Night,” and how he filmed the destruction of King’s Landing, in the penultimate episode “The Bells,” through the lens of questioning his own role in creating the show’s most violent moments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Homecoming" DIrector Sam Esmail
June 06, 2019 17:44 - 35 minutesHow Esmail scored his thriller with old film scores, adapting the popular podcast, and how both writing & directing "Mr. Robot" is unsustainable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Barry" Season 2: Bill Hader
May 24, 2019 13:53 - 54 minutesHader returns to the podcast to talk about having the confidence to find his voice as a director in S2, breaking down "Ronny/Lily" and the season finale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"John Wick" Director Chad Stahelski
May 20, 2019 18:40 - 32 minutesStahelski breaks down how he pulled off the big John Wick 3 action scenes and explains why Keanu's character will never walk off into the sunset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Man Who Killed Don Quixote" Director Terry Gilliam
April 09, 2019 17:00 - 31 minutesHow did Terry Gilliam finally make the most cursed production in movie history? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Roma" Alfonso Cuaron
February 14, 2019 18:59 - 26 minutesHow "Roma" is the extension of the ideas and filmmaking Cuarón explored in "Children of Men" and "Y Tu Mamá También." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Minding The Gap" Director Bing Liu
February 08, 2019 22:35 - 47 minutesThe Oscar nominee talks about how his incredible skateboarding movie became a story of domestic abuse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices