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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

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56:33

'The Acolyte' Creator Leslye Headland

IndieWire"s Filmmaker Toolkit ·

2024/07/18

The Russian Doll creator brings her flair for mystery to the Star Wars universe with The Acolyte. Headland joined us the morning after the series finale to discuss the show's bold narrative structure, her unique take on Star Wars witches, and how she choreographed the lightsaber fights character-first.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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38:17

'Fantasmas' Director Julio Torres

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2024/07/15

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40:27

'Made In England' Executive Producer Thelma Schoonmaker

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2024/07/11

Martin Scorsese and his long time editor Thelma Schoonmaker have delivered another marvelous piece of film history with their new documentary, "Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger." Schoonmaker analyzes the impact of one of the most important cinematic partnerships of all time, and shares stories of how her late husband Michael Powell advised Scorsese on several of his early films.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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31:37

'MaXXXine' Director Ti West

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2024/07/03

The final film in the horror trilogy that began with “X” and “Pearl” has arrived. For “MaXXXine,” director Ti West talks about creating a period film on a budget, working with Kevin Bacon to create one of cinema’s slimiest detectives, and how directing episodic television gave him the chops to take his filmmaking to the next level.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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26:37

'Horizon: An American Saga' Director Kevin Costner

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2024/06/27

Kevin Costner revitalized the Western genre with his first film as director, “Dances With Wolves.” He talks about returning to the West for the ambitious epic “Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1” and explains what still interests him about the Western and why he’s taking the biggest gamble of his career on this passion project.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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34:23

'Kinds of Kindness' Director Yorgos Lanthimos

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2024/06/21

After the VFX heavy world building of Poor Things, director Yorgos Lanthimos has delivered something more akin to his earlier work on Dogtooth and Killing of a Sacred Deer. Hear how he guided Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe and the other actors through multiple roles across 3 stories, and get a peek into Yorgos's game-filled rehearsal process.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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29:07

'The Regime' Creator Will Tracey

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2024/06/20

From building a fictional government around Kate Winslet, to the benefits and liabilities of shooting in real palaces, the show's creator joins us to break down this fabulously satirical look at modern day authoritarianism Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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33:31

'Hacks: Season 3' Director & Co-Creator Lucia Aniello

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2024/06/13

After a fantastic finale to Season 3, one of the minds behind "Hacks" sat down with us to explore how the show remains so keyed into the joys, costs and absurdity of making art (and also pulling off 4AM drone shots on the Vegas strip).Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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46:59

'Game Changer' EPs Sam Reich & Paul Robalino

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2024/06/06

The hit series from streaming service Dropout, "Game Changer," combines a '70s game show with the joy of messing with your friends. Two of the executive producers walked us through the comedic chaos of producing a show where the game changes every episode.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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33:33

'Robot Dreams' Director Pablo Berger

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2024/06/04

If the title "Robot Dreams" sounds familiar, this was one of the Animated Features nominated for last year's Oscars. Now expanding wide over the summer, it's the perfect time to catch up on this darling story of friendship and New York City in the 80s. Hear how Pablo fell in love with animation directing, and how he inspired his animators with films from silent comedy masters like Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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57:17

'The Curse' Creator, Writer, & Star Benny Safdie

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2024/05/30

The co-director of "Good Time" and "Uncut Gems" returns to Toolkit to discuss his collaboration with Nathan Fielder on their bizarrely fascinating series, "The Curse." Always a student of filmmaking, Benny walks us through what he learned making a show unlike anything we've ever seen.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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29:04

'Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga' Director George Miller

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2024/05/28

Over the last 45 years, writer-director George Miller has created the greatest action-adventure franchise in the history of cinema; the “Mad Max” saga. The latest entry in the series, “Furiosa,” is the most ambitious and original yet. Miller talks about how and why he keeps raising the bar for himself and for action movies as a whole. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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29:57

'Girlfight' Director Karyn Kusama

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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...

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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