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"Dear White People" Creator Justin Simien Jun 15, 2018

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Simien breaks down the unique "presentation" style of his Netflix series, what Kubrick taught him about music and share new details about his horror-race satire movie ("Bad Hair")that he'll be shooting this summer.

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"The Good Place" Creator Michael Schur Jun 11, 2018

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Michael Schur (The Office, Parks & Rec), master of the work place comedy, talks about the challenges of tackling the big concept and twisty plot of “The Good Place.” In this conversation Schur outlines the one vital key to success in all serialized tv, working with philosophy professors as consultants, modeling heaven after The Grove and avoiding the M. Night Shyamalan trap of training an audience to anticipate twists.

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"The Terror" Creator David Kajganich Jun 08, 2018

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Inside the process of creating a historical horror story of a lost Arctic expedition on a sound stage and how Kajganich pitched the show as anthology, but won't be coming back for another season.

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"Atlanta" & "This Is America" Director Hiro Murai Jun 04, 2018

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Atlanta's Lakeith Stanfield Didn’t Even Know Donald Glover Was Playing Teddy Perkins.

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"First Reformed" Director Paul Schrader May 23, 2018

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The screenwriter behind "Taxi Driver" and "Raging Bull" talks about the intersection of faith and cinema, and how arthouse cinema has radically changed since he first wrote "Transcendental Style in Film" in 1971.

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"The Rider" Director Chloé Zhao May 18, 2018

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The director behind one of the best films of 2018 talks about how a woman born in Beijing and schooled at NYU ended up telling real-life stories of people living on a South Dakota reservation.

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Netflix "Strong Island" Director Yance Ford Feb 15, 2018

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Oscar nomination director Yance Ford talks about his 8-year journey to completing a film about his brother's violent death in 1992.

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"The Big Sick" Kumail Nanjiani & Emily V. Gordon Jan 09, 2018

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There were a ton of bad drafts of "The Big Sick" before it became one of the best comedy scripts in years. Kumail & Emily talk about the 4 year process of adapting their real life story.

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"Lady Bird" Director Greta Gerwig Jan 05, 2018

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Gerwig talks about what her artistic dreams were when she, like Lady Bird, was 18 and came to New York.

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"mother!" Director Darren Aronofsky Dec 28, 2017

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Aronofsky on why you have to make the audience laugh, cry or scare the shit out of the them.

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