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From MovieMaker Magazine, a podcast featuring conversations with great moviemakers about the art and craft of making movies. Tim Molloy talks to moviemakers about screenwriting, directing, acting, and all of the other creative work that goes into moviemaking. Like MovieMaker's print magazine and moviemaker.com, we're here for everyone who wants to learn more about how movies are made.
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From MovieMaker Magazine, a podcast featuring conversations with great moviemakers about the art and craft of making movies. Tim Molloy talks to moviemakers about screenwriting, directing, acting, and all of the other creative work that goes into moviemaking. Like MovieMaker's print magazine and moviemaker.com, we're here for everyone who wants to learn more about how movies are made.
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    Using VR to Embrace Life, Not Escape It

    Using VR to Embrace Life, Not Escape It

    Some people think of virtual reality as an escape from actual reality. But helping you escape reality is the opposite of what Felix Lajeunesse and Paul Raphaël hope to do through their immersive virtual reality company, Felix & Paul Studios.
    The Emmy-winning Montreal-based studio takes audiences to places they might otherwise never go — to the International Space Station, inside the Oval Office, even back in time.
    You can watch Inside Felix & Paul Studios here.

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    • 58 min
    Debra Granik and Coss Marte (Conbody vs Everybody)

    Debra Granik and Coss Marte (Conbody vs Everybody)

    Coss Marte created a prison-based workout program in solitary confinement, then turned it into a thriving business called Conbody that employs ex-inmates. Their recidivism rate is zero.
    Debra Granik, the brilliant Oscar-nominated director of films including Winter's Bone and Leave No Trace, tells the story in Conbody vs Everybody, premiering today at Sundance.

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    • 38 min
    Actual Facts: "American Pain" Director Darren Foster

    Actual Facts: "American Pain" Director Darren Foster

    Documentary podcast Actual Facts is back on the MovieMaker feed to talk docs! Eric and Jason discuss "American Pain," a documentary that tells the story of twin brothers and bodybuilders Chris and Jeff George, who operated a franchise of pain clinics in Florida where they made millions of dollars handing out pills like candy. The film's director, Darren Foster, stops by to chat.
    Actual Facts is hosted by Eric Steuer and Jason Betrue
    Music by Yalls: https://www.dancasey.me/
    "American Pain": https://www.americanpainfilm.com/

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    • 50 min
    Cory Choy (Esme, My Love)

    Cory Choy (Esme, My Love)

    Cory Choy's Esme, My Love is a mother-daughter thriller, set in the wilds of upstate New York and powered by visual and auditory experimentation. Choy relied not just on his extensive experience as a sound designer (he runs NYC's Silver Sound) but also on his own life experiences, from recording music with his friends in his early teens to being a parent to listening to supernatural stories.
    Esme, My Love is now available on your favorite VOD platform.


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    • 41 min
    Brian Helgeland (Finestkind)

    Brian Helgeland (Finestkind)

    Brian Helgeland has won an Oscar for the screenplay of L.A. Confidential and was nominated again for Mystic River. He wrote and directed films including Payback, A Knights Tale and 42.
    But the film he always wanted to make is Finestkind, inspired by his experience on a fishing boat off the coast of his Massachusetts hometown. It's now out on Paramount+.
    Photo by Maarten De Boer.

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    • 45 min
    Sharon "Rocky" Roggio (1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture)

    Sharon "Rocky" Roggio (1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture)

    Filmmaker Sharon "Rocky" Roggio is a lesbian filmmaker who hopes to someday change her Christian pastor father's mind about homosexuality.
    Like many Christians, he believes that the Bible condemns it. But her new documentary, 1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture, argues that mistranslations at a 1946 gathering led to widespread misunderstandings used to justify bigotry and violence.
    It's a scholarly, fascinating film, but also an achingly personal one. Roggio takes a love-your-enemies approach to trying to end the weaponization of the Bible against LGBTQ people — starting in her own family.

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    • 34 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
15 Ratings

15 Ratings

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What then world needs

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A Great Listen

This is a great interview podcast with filmmakers talking about their latest releases and the creative process. Guests range from indie filmmakers and A listers. Great stuff!

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Must Listen

Definitely check out the pod if you want to hear untold stories from filmmakers! Learn something new on each episode.

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