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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.

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30:15

'Avatar: The Way Of Water' Director James Cameron

IndieWire"s Filmmaker Toolkit ·

2022/12/16

Join our discussion with visionary filmmaker James Cameron as he walks us through the cutting edge technology he and his team developed for this long awaited return to the world of Avatar. Learn how he once again pioneered new performance capture technology, allowing actors to perform underwater and giving them much more creative freedom than a live action filmmaking approach. Cameron unpacks how motion capture shapes the creative process at every step, impacting the writing and editing as much as

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31:57

'All The Beauty And The Bloodshed' Director Laura...

IndieWire"s Filmmaker Toolkit ·

2022/12/14

Learn about the making of one of the year's most powerful films from Laura Poitras, the award winning director of Citezenfour, and her editor Amy Foote. The two filmmakers explain how they met photographer Nan Goldin, and how they combined her voice with her incredible photographs to tell the story of her challenging the powerful Sackler family. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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24:46

'Everything Everywhere All At Once' Directors Daniel...

IndieWire"s Filmmaker Toolkit ·

2022/12/09

Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert discuss the collaboration that allowed them to make "Everything Everywhere All At Once" maximalist AF. From the summer camp vibes on their set to their poetic relationship with sound design, hear how this duo crafted their incredible journey through the multiverse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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43:56

Deep Dive: 'The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power'

IndieWire"s Filmmaker Toolkit ·

2022/12/08

The crafts team behind Prime Video's "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" discuss the creative choices that went into making a series that is by and for fans of J.R.R. Tolkien. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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36:24

'Navalny' Director Daniel Roher

IndieWire"s Filmmaker Toolkit ·

2022/12/06

Director Daniel Roher takes us behind the scenes of making his thrilling documentary, the story of the fearless opposition leader to Vladimir Putin's oppressive regime. A social media master and fierce public speaker, Alexei Navalny was so effective at rallying the people of Russia against the Kremlin, they attempted to assassinate him in the summer of 2020. Roher describes what it was like to film Navalny while he recovered in Germany and planned his fateful return, and why making this movie felt

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33:50

'Andor' Creator Tony Gilroy & Editor John Gilroy

IndieWire"s Filmmaker Toolkit ·

2022/11/30

Creator Tony Gilroy and editor John Gilroy join Toolkit to discuss the joys of worldbuilding inside the Star Wars universe, structuring the first season of "Andor," and how score influenced the show's writing and editing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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43:15

'Good Night Oppy' Director Ryan White

IndieWire"s Filmmaker Toolkit ·

2022/11/29

Director Ryan White takes us inside the making of this delightful documentary chronicling the journey of Mars rover Opportunity, which had a planned 90 day mission but ended up surviving fifteen years. Hear how the crew brought Oppy's groundbreaking mission to life using hundreds of hours of archival footage from NASA, and partnering with the VFX powerhouse Industrial Light and Magic to create a digital Mars from scratch. And learn about the deep bonds that formed between this intrepid rover and her

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30:48

'The Menu' Director Mark Mylod

IndieWire"s Filmmaker Toolkit ·

2022/11/24

Director Mark Mylod discusses channeling Ralph Fiennes' character to create the look and feel of his "eat the rich" satirical thriller. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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41:01

'She Said' Director Maria Schrader

IndieWire"s Filmmaker Toolkit ·

2022/11/23

The director of the Netflix limited series “Unorthodox” talks about adapting New York Times journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey’s book to the big screen. Schrader discuss how her experience telling the real life story of “Unorthodox” and being an actress in Germany helped her tackle the all-too-real story of reporting the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse scandal, and why she doesn’t buy the media’s comparisons between “She Said” and other journalist classics like “All The Presidents Men” and

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35:52

'All That Breathes' Director Shaunak Sen

IndieWire"s Filmmaker Toolkit ·

2022/11/21

Director Shaunak Sen goes inside how he found and created the most innovative visual language of any film this year. A process that involved throwing away a year’s worth of footage, and starting over, all in an effort the avoid to pitfalls that so many films with touch upon ecological or political issues fall into. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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42:11

'Fire of Love' Director Sara Dosa & Producer Shane Boris

IndieWire"s Filmmaker Toolkit ·

2022/11/18

Director Sara Dosa and producer Shane Boris join Filmmaker Toolkit to discuss the formal and tonal choices they made in order to capture the adventurous spirits of Katia and Maurice Krafft in "Fire of Love." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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48:52

'Is That Black Enough For You?' Dir. Elvis Mitchell

IndieWire"s Filmmaker Toolkit ·

2022/11/14

Film scholar and public radio fixture Elvis Mitchell speaks about directing "Is That Black Enough for You?!?" and why the 1970s were the greatest decade ever for Black film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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28:24

'The Janes' Directors Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes

IndieWire"s Filmmaker Toolkit ·

2022/11/08

Directors Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes join Toolkit discuss the creative pillars holding up their documentary "The Janes," why it was important to make Chicago a character in the story, the extensive challenge and surprising finds of using archive material from the period, and their and the film's relationship to the modern politics of abortion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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30:22

'Tár' Director Todd Field

IndieWire"s Filmmaker Toolkit ·

2022/11/04

On this episode of Filmmaker Toolkit, Field talks about how he turned his unusual script about a famous conductor in personal and professional free fall into a riveting character study, with help from star Cate Blanchett, collaborating during the height of the pandemic, thematic ideas like the corrupting nature of power and practical concerns like casting the other parts, and both Field's and Blanchett's delight in sharing their growing excitement about the milieu in which the film takes

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40:42

'Last Flight Home' Dir. Ondi Timoner

IndieWire"s Filmmaker Toolkit ·

2022/11/01

"DIG!" and "We Live in Public" director Ondi Timoner joins Toolkit to discuss the unintentional road to "Last Flight Home" and the work of making the cameras that documented her father's last days as invisible as possible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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32:39

'Armageddon Time' Director James Gray

IndieWire"s Filmmaker Toolkit ·

2022/10/28

In James Gray's new film "Armageddon Time," he returns to the kind of intimate, precise character study with which he made his name. Gray speaks about visual style, memory, and why he loves movies to begin with. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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27:57

'Descendant' Director Margaret Brown

IndieWire"s Filmmaker Toolkit ·

2022/10/25

Director Margaret Brown discusses the cinematic and narrative choices that helped shape the story of "Descendant" – from building the sounds of the South to collaborating with the film's subjects to resurfacing the filmmaking of Zora Neale Hurston. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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28:52

'Aftersun' Director Charlotte Wells

IndieWire"s Filmmaker Toolkit ·

2022/10/22

Charlotte Wells joins the Filmmaker Toolkit podcast to talk about the evolution of her first feature: creating anchor points for memory within the story of the film, the joys of working with DV camcoder footage and the liminal place it sits between objective and subjective points of view, refining perspective and the sense of memory in editing "Aftersun" together, finding immediacy within a specific time period through the look of the film, and even more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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34:46

Armando Iannucci on 'Avenue 5'

IndieWire"s Filmmaker Toolkit ·

2022/10/14

Series creator Armando Iannucci discusses the benefits of satire while working in genre, building a future out of our ridiculous present, and how the pandemic influenced the HBO comedy's second season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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28:21

'Dead for a Dollar' Director Walter Hill

IndieWire"s Filmmaker Toolkit ·

2022/10/07

If you were an action fan in the 1970s, ’80s, or ’90s, one of the great pleasures of filmgoing was the experience, every year or two, of a new Walter Hill movie. No one else was really making movies like him, and no one had before; Hill created a body of work that spoke to American culture both past and present where the jokes are funny but the bullets are real. On this episode of the Filmmaker Toolkit podcast, Hill speaks about returning to his favorite genre, the Western with his new film "Dead

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