IndieWire's Filmmaker Toolkit

In a live edition of Filmmaker Toolkit, writer-director Walter Hill joins IndieWire’s Jim Hemphill at the American Cinematheque for a post-screening discussion of his action-comedy classic “48HRS.” Hill discusses casting Eddie Murphy, designing one of the great long takes of the 1980s, and what he thinks his imitators got wrong in the buddy films that came later.

Read Walter Hill reflect on the making of another of his classics, "The Warriors" - https://www.indiewire.com/features/interviews/walter-hill-interview-warriors-1235142531/

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Through films like "Fury," "End of Watch" and "The Beekeeper" David Ayer has proven himself an auteur of visceral action and male emotion. His newest has him re-teaming with Brad Pitt to show off a side of the star (and himself) that we have not seen on screen before. Hear Ayer share how his time on a nuclear submarine helped him as a director, his philosophy of violence on screen, and how having a dog on set can make even the longest shoot days possible.

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For his feature documentary debut, director John Wilson takes us into (and far, far beyond) the history of a substance that forms the foundation of the modern world. He sat down with IndieWire's Sarah Shachat to discuss the difference in audience interaction from TV to film, file management, the drone photography epidemic, starting a micro-cinema, filming Kylie Jenner at a party, and much more.

Watch the trailer for "The History of Concrete" - https://www.indiewire.com/news/trailers/john-wilson-the-history-of-concrete-trailer-1235213146/

And read our full review - https://www.indiewire.com/criticism/movies/the-history-of-concrete-movie-review-john-wilson-1235174386/
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After creating one of the biggest waves of any film to ever hit the Cannes Film Festival, Director Na Hong-jin is bringing his genre defying spectacle "Hope" to theaters. IndieWire's Chris O'Falt could not wait to dive into the incredible world building, audacious motion capture CGI, and some of the most spectacular action filmmaking we've seen in in a while.

Skip to 27:16 to hear Director Na Hong-jin's full answers in Korean.

Watch the trailer for "Hope'" - https://www.indiewire.com/news/trailers/hope-trailer-na-hong-jin-1235204304/
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Director Michael Dinner returns to the podcast to talk with IndieWire’s Jim Hemphill about his work on Apple TV’s “Silo.” Dinner discusses the influence of 1970s conspiracy thriller’s on the show’s visual language, collaborating with showrunner Graham Yost and star Rebecca Ferguson, and much more.

Read more about the production design of "Silo" - https://www.indiewire.com/features/craft/silo-props-apple-tv-plus-1234879799/
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