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IndieWire"s Filmmaker Toolkit

Interviews 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.

tv & film

All Episodes

29:57

'Girlfight' Director Karyn Kusama

IndieWire"s Filmmaker Toolkit ·

2024/05/23

The director of several modern classics, like Jennifer's Body and The Invitation, joins us to discuss her feature debut Girlfight, now on Blu-Ray from Criterion. Kusama reflects on working with Michelle Rodriguez in her first movie role, and her intentions from several decades ago, and how the film has aged since.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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57:29

'Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show' Creator Jerrod...

IndieWire"s Filmmaker Toolkit ·

2024/05/21

After coming out to the world on his HBO special Rothaniel, the writer, actor, and comedian brings us even deeper into his personal life with this new reality show. Jerrod joined us for a deep conversation about the power of the camera to reveal truth, what it took for him to fall in love, and how he collaborated with his crew to relinquish control of his own image. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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36:55

'True Detective: Night Country' Director Issa López

IndieWire"s Filmmaker Toolkit ·

2024/05/16

The show-runner and director for the fourth season of this classic series joins us to explore how she brought the central True Detective themes and mysteries to a brand new landscape; the dark and frozen tundra of Alaska's months long winter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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47:48

'I Saw The TV Glow' Director Jane Schoenbrun

IndieWire"s Filmmaker Toolkit ·

2024/05/09

After this and "We're All Going to the World's Fair" Schoenbrun has emerged as one of our most fully formed new indie filmmakers, using a mastery of genre and form to expose audiences to complex and fascinating ideas. They spoke with us about making their much anticipated new movie, as well as reflected on their journey to directing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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24:08

'The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has...

IndieWire"s Filmmaker Toolkit ·

2024/05/09

The director of the funniest movies in a long time joins the Toolkit today to discuss her bold new work of auto-fiction. Arnow explains how she arranged this series of small vignettes to create something grander that speaks to a greater truth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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28:41

'The Fall Guy' Director David Leitch

IndieWire"s Filmmaker Toolkit ·

2024/05/02

David has been a stunt performer, one of the top stunt co-ordinators in the business, and now is one of the biggest action directors of the last decade with films like of "Atomic Blonde" and "Bullet Train." He joins Toolkit to break down making his newest film as a love letter to stunts and the way Hollywood used to make action flicks. And we get into his biggest stunt of all: pulling off a rom-com in the middle of a huge action movie.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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27:10

'Vanderpump Rules' Executive Producer Alex Baskin

IndieWire"s Filmmaker Toolkit ·

2024/05/01

Veteran producer Alex Baskin takes us behind the scenes of one of the best non-scripted shows on television. Hear how they balance reality with emotional storytelling, and how they prevented last season's 'Scandoval' from breaking the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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40:16

'Wildcat' Director Ethan Hawke

IndieWire"s Filmmaker Toolkit ·

2024/04/30

The great actor-turned-director talks about developing the film for his daughter Maya Hawke (who stars as author Flannery O’Connor) after "Stranger Things" blew up, wrestling with O’Connor’s history with racism, what he learned about directing from all the greats he’s worked with as actor, and why the theme of creativity and what it means to be an artist has become the driving force behind so much of his own work as an artist at this stage of his career. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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20:57

'Challengers' Director Luca Guadagnino

IndieWire"s Filmmaker Toolkit ·

2024/04/26

For his fourth time joining the Toolkit discussion, director Luca Guadagnino takes us into the sultry, sweaty world of "Challengers." Much more than just a tennis movie, this film pushed Guadagnino to make bold choices with camera and music, and lean into storyboards and rehearsal more than his previous work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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51:31

'Shogun' Creators Justin Marks & Rachel Kondo

IndieWire"s Filmmaker Toolkit ·

2024/04/25

The co-creators of the stunning FX miniseries join us to discuss the rigorous process that made the show so captivating, from period detail to character psychology and a nuanced approach to subtitles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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49:08

'Dogfight' Director Nancy Savoca

IndieWire"s Filmmaker Toolkit ·

2024/04/18

This little seen 1991 gem is coming to the Criterion Collection. And even if you have seen this movie, the story of how it got made will shock you. Savoca talked about how she transformed a studio film destined to be another Porky’s teen sex comedy into a subtle masterpiece. Savoca talks about how her young star, River Phoenix, saved the ending from being reshot by the studio and his incredible talent and moral compass at just 20 years old.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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69:50

'The People's Joker' Director Vera Drew

IndieWire"s Filmmaker Toolkit ·

2024/04/11

You may remember "The People’s Joker" as that film Warner Brothers tried to shut down for copyright infringement during the 2022 Toronto film Festival. The more interesting story about this film is the ingenuity and a punk rock spirit in which it was created. Drew takes us on a journey of how her origin story as a trans woman coming up in the comedy world started (in her head at least) to merge with that of the Joker, and the rather unusual way this film was dreamed up.Learn more about your ad

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27:20

'We Were The Lucky Ones' Director & EP Thomas Kail

IndieWire"s Filmmaker Toolkit ·

2024/04/04

Thomas Kail, of Hamilton and Fosse/Verdon joins us to discuss this gripping series about a Jewish family in Poland surviving WWII, and how he worked to make sure this holocaust story reflects upon the modern day.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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32:44

'Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire' Director Adam Wingard

IndieWire"s Filmmaker Toolkit ·

2024/03/29

Having helmed their big grudge match in 2021's Godzilla vs Kong, director Adam Wingard is now back for the big team up. Hear how Wingard and his team expanded the mythology of the series, introduced several new titans, and integrated VFX with some spectacular location shooting.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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38:31

'Love Lies Bleeding' Director Rose Glass

IndieWire"s Filmmaker Toolkit ·

2024/03/18

The director of "Saint Maud" takes us into the dark heart of her new noir romance. From the shocking gore to the authentic sex scenes, and even a touch of the cosmic, Glass breaks down how this movie goes so hard.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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32:24

'Knox Goes Away' Director Michael Keaton

IndieWire"s Filmmaker Toolkit ·

2024/03/15

Michael Keaton joins us today for a chat about his work Directing and starring in this modern day film noir about a hitman with rapid-onset dementia. Hear how Keaton defied the expectations of a thriller in order to deliver a movie that is contemplative, tragic, and yet dryly funny.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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33:00

'Dune: Part Two' Director Denis Villeneuve

IndieWire"s Filmmaker Toolkit ·

2024/03/04

It's time to go back to the desert! The mastermind behind the Dune series returns to Toolkit to breakdown the complicated hero's journey, making sandworm riding a reality, and why this sequel feels like such a different kind of movie than the first.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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31:56

'Expats' Director Lulu Wang

IndieWire"s Filmmaker Toolkit ·

2024/02/23

Series creator and director Lulu Wang discusses carrying around a Zoom recorder on scouts and finding the rhythm (in more ways than one) of "Expats."Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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30:14

'Masters of the Air' Writer John Orloff

IndieWire"s Filmmaker Toolkit ·

2024/02/01

The Apple TV Plus series “Masters of the Air” reunites screenwriter John Orloff with his “Band of Brothers” producers Gary Goetzman, Tom Hanks, and Steven Spielberg. On this episode, Orloff discusses his rigorous approach to research and how that manifests itself as drama in some of the most visceral combat scenes ever filmed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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26:06

'Wanted Man' Director Dolph Lundgren

IndieWire"s Filmmaker Toolkit ·

2024/01/25

You probably know Dolph Lundgren as an actor from films like ROCKY IV and UNIVERSAL SOLDIER, but over the last 20 years he has quietly forged a directing career making modestly budgeted action films in the character-driven tradition of Don Siegel and Clint Eastwood. He joins Filmmaker Toolkit to talk about his latest movie, WANTED MAN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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