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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

What Making a Documentary About a Cat Circus Taught Me About the Impermanence of Art

Jacob Feiring shares the wisdom he learned about filmmaking and life from making his new documentary, Acrocats!.

June 26, 2019

Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway

Diana Peralta on the leap she had to take to make her debut feature De Lo Mio, her deeply personal family tale set in the Dominican Republic.

June 21, 2019

Lake Bell Talks with Santigold for the Talkhouse Podcast

Friends Lake and Santi take a break from their hectic schedules to talk motherhood, creativity and the challenges of balancing the two.

June 20, 2019

Telling a Legendary Crime Story with Home-Field Advantage

Vault writer-director Tom DeNucci on how his hometown rallied around when he got to finally make his dream movie about the Bonded Vault heist.

June 14, 2019

I Make a Film, the Film Makes Me

Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli on So Pretty, a fictional autobiography which came to shape her and how she saw herself and the world.

Why Me?

Writer-director Patricia Rozema, whose new film Mouthpiece is now in theaters, ponders her unlikely career in cinema.

June 7, 2019