IndieWire's Filmmaker Toolkit show

IndieWire's Filmmaker Toolkit

Summary: 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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Podcasts:

 "Escape At Dannemora" Director Ben Stiller | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:44:42

Stiller on what it took to make his prison escape series as authentic as humanly possible.

 "Parts Unknown: Anthony Bourdain" Exec Producers Lydia Tenaglia & Chris Collins | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:53:25

Tenaglia 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.

 "Russian Doll" Creator/Director Leslye Headland | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:43:46

Headland talks about the fear of how to end the show and the misogynist side of the auteur theory.

 "Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" Creators Amy Sherman-Palladino & Dan Palladino | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:38:26

The husband-wife duo dig into S2 of their Emmy winning show to explore how they've translated their trademark dialogue into cinematic visuals.

 "Game Of Thrones" Director Miguel Sapochnik | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 02:18:42

The 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.

 "Homecoming" DIrector Sam Esmail | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:35:14

How Esmail scored his thriller with old film scores, adapting the popular podcast, and how both writing & directing "Mr. Robot" is unsustainable.

 "Barry" Season 2: Bill Hader | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:54:54

Hader 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.

 "John Wick" Director Chad Stahelski | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:32:50

Stahelski 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.

 "Man Who Killed Don Quixote" Director Terry Gilliam | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:31:15

How did Terry Gilliam finally make the most cursed production in movie history?

 "Roma" Alfonso Cuaron | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:26:23

How "Roma" is the extension of the ideas and filmmaking Cuarón explored in "Children of Men" and "Y Tu Mamá También."

 "Minding The Gap" Director Bing Liu | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:47:41

The Oscar nominee talks about how his incredible skateboarding movie became a story of domestic abuse.

 "Honey Boy" Director Alma Har'el | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:41:38

Har'el on taking Shia Labeouf's pain and therapy and turning it into a hit Sundance film.

 "Hereditary" Director Ari Aster | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:39:27

Aster talks about how a story of grief, that was too dark and bleak to ever get made as a drama, became a hit horror film.

 "Destroyer" Director Karyn Kusama | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:40:48

Kusmana on the using real guns, creating an unusual villain and pulling Nicole Kidman back from going almost too far in her incredible transformation.

 "Cold War" Director Pawel Pawlikowski | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:34:13

The Oscar winning director behind "Ida" talks about his extraordinary new film "Cold War."

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