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MovieMaker Magazine

From MovieMaker Magazine, a podcast featuring conversations with great moviemakers about the art and craft of making movies. Tim Molloy talks to moviemakers about screenwriting, directing, acting, and all of the other creative work that goes into moviemaking. Like MovieMaker"s print magazine and moviemaker.com, we"re here for everyone who wants to learn more about how movies are made. Also, check out Actual Facts, our documentary-focused podcast hosted by Eric Steuer. You can listen to it right here

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30:45

Thomas Bezucha (Let Him Go)

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2020/11/05

Let Him Go, the new film from Thomas Bezucha, stars Kevin Costner and Diane Lane as George and Margaret, a couple who travel from Montana to North Dakota to retrieve their grandson from a notorious family called the Weboys.Bezucha talks about how he came across the source material of the film, how this film feels a little bit to him like a sequel to Costner's The Bodyguard, and why he never considered working with CGI fire. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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31:02

Amy Seimetz (She Dies Tomorrow)

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2020/11/03

Amy Seimetz’s second feature film,She Dies Tomorrow, is about a young woman named Amy (Kate LynSheil) who holds the inescapable certainty that she will die in one day. When she confides in her friend Jane (Jane Adams), the prophecy begins to spread, igniting a chain reaction of existential dread. Seimetz knew she wanted to bring her characteristic "dark sense of humor" to the film, and bend genre conventions. That meant shooting it in chunks, and funding it herself."I didn't want to have to answer

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23:36

Remi Weekes (His House)

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2020/10/30

His House, the bold new Netflix horror film from writer-director Remi Weekes, is a very scary haunted house story that is also a moving and empathetic story about immigration.It starsWunmi Mosaku and Ṣhop-pe Dìrísù as a couple who flee war in South Sudan, and make a harrowing escape to the UK. But there, they encounter new horrors.Weekes also talks about debuting at Sundance and the short films that helped him hone his craft as a filmmaker. He co-founded Tell No One, a production company that

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35:51

Richard Herskowitz (Ashland Independent Film Festival)

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2020/10/29

Ashland, Oregon is a small-town film mecca that draws Hollywood expats with its mix of a thriving film scene, proximity to big cities, and sprawling wide open spaces.This year, Southern Oregon's Ashland Independent Film Festival has persevered and innovated through not only a pandemic, but fires that have destroyed homes and blackened acreage surrounding a beautiful town in the foothills of two mountain ranges.AIFF artistic director Richard Herskowitz told us about what's its like to live in Ashland

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33:41

Brea Grant (12 Hour Shift)

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2020/10/28

12 Hour Shiftwriter-director Brea Grant (Friday Night Lights, Heroes, Dexter) set her horror comedy in the late '90s because she wanted to portray a time when people spoke their minds a little more — and were more susceptible to urban legends.The film follows a gruff Arkansas nurse (Angela Bettis) with a tidy side hustle as an organ harvester. But one night, things start to go wrong, cops start sniffing around, and loyalties are tested. Y2K lurks in the near future.She talks with us about her

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23:42

Radium Girls Directors Lydia Dean Pilcher and Ginny...

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2020/10/27

Radium Girls, co-directed by Lydia Dean Pilcher andGinnyMohler and starring Joey King, is based on the true story of a group of young female factory workers in the 1920s who worked with radium — which was seen at the time as an almost miraculous element. But the women soon began developing mysterious, terrible illnesses.After a medical mystery — that included a misdiagnosis of syphilis for some of the victims — the women banded together to fight for their health, safety and rights. Hosted on Acast

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24:52

Jim Cummings (The Wolf of Snow Hollow)

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2020/10/22

Jim Cummings is the writer director and star of The Wolf of Snow Hollow, in which a small mountain town is hit by a series of killings that seem like the work of a wolf. Or is it a werewolf?The film stars Cummings as a deputy in meltdown, and Robert Forster plays the head of the department in one of his final roles. Cummings talks about how he broke into DIY indie filmmaking, how he mines real-life public freakouts for laughs, and the movies that Forster recommend to an unsuspecting co-star before

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25:42

Brandon Cronenberg (Possessor)

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2020/10/19

Brandon Cronenberg looked to real life horror — from data mining to election meddling — to inspire the sci-fi/horror hybrid Possessor. Andrea Riseborough stars as Tasya Vos, a woman who carries out assassinations by taking control of other people's bodies using brain-implant technology.Cronenberg talks to Eric Steuer about how his team used practical effects because skin and blood are particularly difficult to achieve realistically through CGI. He also talks about the real-life scientist who carried

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27:09

Diane Paragas (Yellow Rose)

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2020/10/13

Yellow Rose, from director Diane Paragas, is about a Filipina girl who fell in love with country music while growing up in Texas. But her dreams of music stardom come under threat when her mother, who is undocumented, is taken in the night by an ICE raid.Like her protagonist, Paragas grew up Filipina-American in Texas. To tell the story of Rose Garcia (played by Eva Noblezada), she relied on her firsthand experience and research that included visits to ICE detention facilities. She shot the film

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45:41

Radha Blank (The Forty-Year-Old Version)

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2020/10/09

Radha Blank is the writer, director and star of The 40-Year-OId version, about a struggling playwright who is determined to make it by age 40 — and does. But as a rapper. Under the name RadhaMUSprime, she raps bluntly about aging, sexuality, and her back pain. The film is a throwback to the '90s rap videos of Digable Planets, LL Cool J, Public Enemy and A Tribe Called Quest, among others, as well as the classic New York black-and-white indie films Blank grew up with. The film, executive produced

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39:29

Gregory Kallenberg (Louisiana Film Prize)

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2020/10/08

Gregory Kallenberg says COVID-19 has forever changed indie filmmaking — in some ways for the better. The founder and executive director of the Louisiana Film Prize, which is in the process of awarding $25,000 to the best short film shot this year in Louisiana, says filmmakers have gotten more personal than ever before.He also talks about his Austin roots, how a documentary led him to Louisiana, and how the idea for the Louisiana Film Prize is expanding.You can watch this year's entries — and vote —

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29:34

American Murder Director Jenny Popplewell

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2020/10/07

Director Jenny Popplewell made a strong decision for her Netflix documentary American Murder: The Family Next Door: She didn't care about the killer. She didn't want to understand how Chris Watts' mind worked, or explain his rationale for the atrocious crime he committed: murdering his wife, Shanann Watts, and their two young daughters, Bella and CeCe.Eschewing interviews and re-enactments, Popplewell's documentary only uses pre-existing footage, such as police body cams, security cameras, and

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23:11

Class Action Park Directors Chris Scott & Seth Porges

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2020/10/01

Action Park was a northern New Jersey water park, open from the 1970s through 1990s, where many kids had their first kiss, their first beer, their first taste of adventure. But as Class Action Park directors Chris Scott and Seth Porges tell interviewer Eric Steuer, it was also a place where dangerous, poorly designed rides and waterslides resulted in many kids being injured, and even caused a few deaths.When people over 40 say kids today could never do the things they did "when we were growing up,"

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47:36

Glenn Kenny (Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas)

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2020/09/25

Film critic Glenn Kenny went to see a struggling Martin Scorsese at his New York office around Christmas 1989, and found him working on a new, tabloid TV-inspired gangster movie about a mobster named Henry Hill. The film, of course, became Goodfellas, one of the greatest movies of all time. To mark its 30th anniversary, Kenney just released the excellent Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas. Treat yourself to it right here.In this episode, Kenny quickly wins us over with a reference to the classic SNL

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25:13

Bush + Renz (Antebellum)

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2020/09/18

Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz, writers and directors Antebellum, left luxury advertising years ago to focus on films that can make a difference. Antebellum, they explain, is intended to move not just audiences, but voters. The film, starring Janelle Monae, is one of many politically and historically aware projects they have in the works. We can't tell you much of anything about the film without some major spoilers, but as the trailer shows, it merges images of modern life with the horrors of

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27:58

Alan Bailey (DTF)

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2020/09/16

Years ago, filmmaker Alan Bailey's friend Charlotte married an airline pilot. She died, tragically, and Alan thought it would be a good idea to make a documentary about "Christian," the widowed pilot, searching for love on Tinder.That movie turned into the new documentary DTF. Because Christian had no intention of finding love. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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30:22

Boys State Directors Amanda McBaine & Jesse Moss

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2020/09/14

Boys State, the compulsively watchable new documentary from Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss, follows four boys who run for governor in a mock-government program sponsored by the American Legion.Their competition comes to resemble a real political race thanks to sometimes disingenuous candidates, dubious internet memes, and even impeachment talk.Guest host Eric Steuer talks with McBaine and Moss about how the conservative Texas boys surprised them, and how a new generation of boys is coming to change

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38:54

Mickey Reece (Climate of the Hunter)

MovieMaker ·

2020/09/11

Climate of the Hunter director Mickey Reece never considered a move to Hollywood. A musician-turned-indie filmmaker, he started making at least two low-budget films a year, on average, with a cadre of friends from around Oklahoma City."I'm just hanging out with people who are into the same things as me," he says. "It's like playing in a band."Reece has a wonderful way with understatement. His hangouts have produced a catalogue of films now gaining attention from revered film festivals like Fantasia

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38:35

Charlie Kaufman (I'm Thinking of Ending Things)

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2020/09/03

Charlie Kaufman's new filmI'm Thinking of Ending Thingsreturns to two of his most familiar subjects: the struggle to communicate clearly, and the failures of memory."Obviously, we live in memory, and it's essential to our sense of self — to our understanding of the world and our understanding of ourselves — and it is elusive and it is inaccurate," he says.But Kaufman explains how inaccuracies in memory can help us create new ideas.The writer of Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, and Eternal Sunshine

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26:12

Jason Neulander (Fugitive Dreams)

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2020/09/01

Fugitive Dreams, the new film from Jason Neulander, is an allegorical road movie that follows two homeless people across a timeless American landscape. It touches on mental health, addiction — and love.Primarily black and white, the film is intended as a kind of Waiting for Godot. A large section of it takes place on board a train, and we talked with Neulander about all the challenges that that entailed.The film, which stars April Matthis, Robbie Tann, Scott Shepherd, O-Lan Jones and David Patrick

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