Filmmaker Toolkit Podcast

'Compensation'
Filmmaker Toolkit
After a Sundance premiere 25 years ago, Zeinabu irene Davis’ poetic film finally finds its audience with a new restoration now in theaters.
6 Films the Inspired 'The Substance'
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Coralie Fargeat tells IndieWire how films by Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, David Cronenberg, the Coen brothers, John Carpenter, and Darren Aronofsky left their imprint on her and "The Substance."
LUCERNE, SWITZERLAND - DECEMBER 07: Coralie Fargeat  arrives for the European Film Awards 2024 at Lucerne Culture and Congress Centre (KKL Luzern) on December 07, 2024 in Lucerne, Switzerland. (Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images)
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Everything stems from the spine: How the birth scene became the backbone of "The Substance."
COMPANION, from left: Jack Quaid, Sophie Thatcher, 2025. © Warner Bros. / Courtesy Everett Collection
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The writer/director tells IndieWire about maintaining a complicated tonal balance in one of the most impressive feature directorial debuts in years.
'Presence'
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The "Presence" director/editor/cinematographer/camera operator goes deep on how he cracked shooting an entire film from a ghost's POV.
Steven Soderbergh and Steven Spielberg
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Soderbergh talks to IndieWire about “Jaws,” his 15-year project to write a book about directing, and working to get his entire film catalog in 4K HDR.
Christopher Abbott as Blake in Wolf Man, directed by Leigh Whannell.
Whannell joins the IndieWire Filmmaker Toolkit podcast to discuss how Heath Ledger's Joker gave him an approach toward creating his own attempt at an iconic character.
'Babygirl'
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Director Halina Reijn goes inside the music and inspiration of Harris Dickinson’s sensual shirtless dance.
UNSTOPPABLE, Jharrel Jerome, as Anthony Robles (top), 2024. ph: Ana Carballosa / © Amazon MGM Studios / Courtesy Everett Collection
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The Academy Award-winning editor of "Argo" talks about taking what he learned from his collaborations with Kathryn Bigelow, Michael Mann, and others for his first time in the director's chair.
AMERICAN PRIMEVAL. Taylor Kitsch as Isaac in Episode 101 of American Primeval. Cr. Justin Lubin/NETFLIX © 2024
The director of "American Primeval" stops by IndieWire's Filmmaker Toolkit podcast to talk about how he embarked on the toughest shoot of his career.
SING SING, Colman Domingo, 2023. © A24 / Courtesy Everett Collection
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Director Greg Kwedar breaks down the one-shot reunion scene that ends the film and carried such an emotional punch his star didn't think he could handle the final embrace.
ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT, Kani Kusruti, 2024. © Janus Films /Courtesy Everett Collection
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Filmmaker Payal Kapadia takes IndieWire inside how she made one of 2024's very best films.
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