Podcast Episodes

How to Identify Your Filmmaking Voice and Expand Beyond It

Filmmaker, actor, & writer Cherien Dabis shares how navigating clashing cultures and embracing multiple perspectives expanded her voice and helped gr…

4 years, 1 month ago

How Can You Navigate Hollywood if You Aren't Rich or Connected?

Reacting to Sydney Sweeney’s hot take about income struggles…shedding light on the litany of inequalities of the film industry, and tech news about A…

4 years, 1 month ago

How to Create Your Directing Opportunities with Liz Allen Rosenbaum

Purple Hearts director Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum reflects on her journey from underexposed dailies in film school to directing a Netflix feature that…

4 years, 1 month ago

Find Out What the Hell Happened with HBO Max

Will bots get an unreleased cut of “Bat Girl”? Can women even pay attention to a TV show? A moment of silence for HBO Max employees…and why you need …

4 years, 1 month ago

How 'Nope' Editor Nicholas Monsour Creates Perspective and Meaning

“Nope” Editor Nicholas Monsour sheds light on cutting scenes with Jordan Peele and finding the balance between ambiguity and intention…       

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4 years, 1 month ago

How Do You Know When Your Edit is Done?

How do you maintain perspective as an editor? Can you really do nothing to get ahead? Have you experienced the runner’s high of editing? Plus DaVinci…

4 years, 2 months ago

The New Soft Skills You Need as a Modern Filmmaker

Filmmakers creating trolly news cycles and buying bots to gain online attention… Hollywood myth about keeping your project a secret to prevent it fro…

4 years, 2 months ago

Here's How This DP Did Something Nobody's EVER Done Before

Cinematographer Bianca Cline explains how she shot the feature film Marcel The Shell With His Shoes On which is now playing in theaters.

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4 years, 2 months ago

Is it Bad That Spielberg and A.I. Generators Are Playing in Our Sandbox?

Filmmakers trolling in the attention economy, Steven Spielberg’s music video debut…AI art and whether a true craftsperson or artist will always beat …

4 years, 2 months ago

This is Why You Can Do Better Work Even With Limitations

Does Taika Waititi really believe director’s cuts are stupid? Working conditions of VFX teams for Marvel movies…a possible replacement for VFX work, …

4 years, 2 months ago