Skip to Content
Talkhouse home
Talkhouse home

Directing

How I Came to Make a Scottish Historical Epic … in Montana

Richard Gray on how he went from being an Aussie kid who loved Braveheart to revisiting characters from that film in a movie of his own.

September 20, 2019

Making Fun of Work

The writer-directors of the new movie Villains are kind of heroes when it comes to their ideas about how to run a film set.

September 18, 2019

How I (Finally) Made My First Feature Motion Picture

Writer-director Michael Tyburski charts the unexpectedly long journey he took to make his new movie, The Sound of Silence.

September 11, 2019

How Not to Talk About a Film (Not) About Disability

For writer-director Aaron Schimberg, finding the right way to describe his latest feature, Chained for Life, has been challenging.

September 10, 2019

Things They Don’t Tell You About Directing Your First Film …

Writer-director David Raymond shares some of the key lessons he learned making his debut feature, the star-studded thriller Night Hunter.

September 5, 2019

How a New-Age Sex Therapist From a Banned Cult Turned My Filmmaking Dreams Into a Nightmare

Perception writer-director Ilana Rein shares the wild tale of her darkest moments in the "hope-industrial complex" of the indie film world.

August 28, 2019

Lulu Wang Talks with Ruben Östlund for the Talkhouse Podcast

The writer-directors of The Farewell and The Square have an enthralling, continent-spanning conversation.

August 22, 2019

Making a Latinx Movie in the Time of Trump

Coyote Lake's Mexican writer-director Sara Seligman on her complicated feelings about making a film with Latino villains in the present era.

August 1, 2019

How I Made Summer Night — Even Though the Money Fell Through a Week Into Shooting

Actor Joseph Cross on how he fulfilled a childhood ambition by directing his first movie, thanks to a crew who went above and beyond.

July 12, 2019

Making the Film I Needed at 16

Jasmin Mozaffari on the roots of her debut feature, Firecrackers, and her proudly disruptive mission to topple the patriarchy through cinema.

July 11, 2019

Film, Family, and Other F-words That Don’t Always Get Along

Miss Arizona writer-director Autumn McAlpin on the very challenging realities of trying to balance art with life obligations.

July 10, 2019

Bring on the Next Wave of Female Auteurs

As she develops new feature projects, writer-director Vashti Anderson wonders, are female filmmakers being given the chance to take risks too?

June 28, 2019