Indiewire's Filmmaker Toolkit

Trey talks about writing / scoring Waves to Frank Ocean, Kayne West and Animal Collective, while mining his personal story of grief, as we break down the color, sound and movement of his remarkable third film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The duo behind the Netflix's "American Factory" share their insight into how documentary filmmakers can gain trust and access, crafting story, and how they shot this remarkable film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Marriage Story" Director Noah Baumbach by Chris O'Falt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"One Child Nation" Director Nanfu Wang by Chris O'Falt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mangold breaks down what’s wrong with our modern day green screen, sensory overload action films and how his new racing film, “Ford v Ferrari,” is a throwback to a more classical mode of Hollywood filmmaking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Most Screenwriters Work to Music, Robert Eggers Listened to Waves and Wind in creating Willem Dafoe's Pirate Dialect. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cotton Club was intended to be a well balanced story about the black and white performers, patrons and gangsters of the legendary Harlem club in the 1920s & 30s. Coppola talks about the pressure he faced to trim down the film so it focused more on Richard Gere's story and his recent effort to restore and re-edit it to bring the film back to what was originally intended. "Cotton Club Encore" is theaters this weekend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Kubrick, Brad Pitt and how hard it is to make a film in a black box with one actor on a wire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Praised by Guillermo del Toro, Aronofsky, Iñárritu and critics everywhere, Landes is one of the most exciting new directors to emerge this year. On the podcast he talks about making his allegory for the 60 year Colombian Civil War, shooting in impossible situations, and how he got composer Mica Levi to score the film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 14 time Oscar nominee on the importance of the right location, why VFX shouldn't be separate from cinematography, and how Donna Tart's novel felt personal to him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stiller on what it took to make his prison escape series as authentic as humanly possible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Headland talks about the fear of how to end the show and the misogynist side of the auteur theory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The husband-wife duo dig into S2 of their Emmy winning show to explore how they've translated their trademark dialogue into cinematic visuals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How Esmail scored his thriller with old film scores, adapting the popular podcast, and how both writing & directing "Mr. Robot" is unsustainable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How did Terry Gilliam finally make the most cursed production in movie history? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How "Roma" is the extension of the ideas and filmmaking Cuarón explored in "Children of Men" and "Y Tu Mamá También." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices