Filmmaker Toolkit Podcast

To capture the feel of a Powell and Pressburger fantasy, the director hired a first-time production designer and shot all but one scene at Cinecittà studios in Rome.

Elizabeth Sankey tells IndieWire about the magic of fair use and using images of witches — and women — in film and TV to tell her own story.

As the director tells IndieWire, there are aspects of the Broadway musical that made sense on stage, but were illogical on the big screen.  

What "Wicked" has to say about gaslighting leaders, fascism, scapegoating entire races of people, and American resilience is something Chu thought a great deal about, so he's not surprised its timelessness speaks to this moment.

Eisenberg reveals the lessons he brought to “A Real Pain,” his two favorite films he’s starred in, and how they point to where he’s going with his upcoming third film.

Imagining “Anora” without its hero location is impossible: an enormous glass mansion overlooking the Mill Basin in Brooklyn.

Matt Reeves on how "The Penguin" finale digs the unfillable hole in the heart of his "Batman 2” kingpin.

Cuarón talks to IndieWire about the fuzzy articulation of traumatic memory, refusing to trick the audience, and Cate Blanchett’s prescribed rewrite of Episode 7.

Cuarón talks to IndieWire about the aesthetics of authoritarianism and how social media and smartphones are leading us down a dark road.

Guadagnino tells IndieWire about his very personal Bertolucci documentary and reveals he is adapting Thomas Mann’s “Buddenbrooks.” 

The artists behind the 1994 action landmark reunite for a conversation featured on the latest episode of "Filmmaker Toolkit." Hear the Beyond Fest talk in full on IndieWire.

Creator and showrunner Soo Hugh tells IndieWire about using music to bring several characters on the Apple TV+ series to a breaking point.