Best TheDirectorsTakePodcast Podcasts (2024)

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E217 - Demystifying VFX with BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE’s Angus Bickerton 1:46:25

5d ago1:46:25

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This is episode 17 in the second season of The Directors Take Podcast. In this week’s episode your hosts Marcus Anthony Thomas and Oz Arshad are joined by legendary VFX Supervisor Angus Bickerton, whose career has stretched over 40 years and landed him jobs on films such as Lost in Space, Tim Burton’s - Dark Shadows & Batman (1989), Kingsman Gold C…

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E216 - The Journey to Directing PRESUMED INNOCENT with Greg Yaitanes Part 2 1:02:33

12d ago1:02:33

1:02:33

This is episode 16 in the second season of The Directors Take Podcast. In this week’s episode your hosts Marcus Anthony Thomas and Oz Arshad are joined by legendary TV Director Greg Yaitanes, whose career has stretched over 30 years and landed him jobs on shows such as House M.D., Grey’s Anatomy, Lost, Prison Break, Banshee, House of the Dragon and…

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E215 - The Journey to Directing PRESUMED INNOCENT with Greg Yaitanes Part 1 1:03:18

19d ago1:03:18

1:03:18

This is episode 15 in the second season of The Directors Take Podcast. In this week’s episode your hosts Marcus Anthony Thomas and Oz Arshad are joined by legendary Emmy winning TV Director Greg Yaitanes, whose career has stretched over 30 years and landed him jobs on shows such as House M.D., Heroes, Grey’s Anatomy, Lost, Prison Break, Banshee, Ho…

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E214 - The Journey to Directing SUPACELL with Sebastian Thiel Part 2 57:57

26d ago57:57

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This is Episode 14 in the second season of The Directors Take Podcast. In this week’s episode your hosts Marcus Anthony Thomas and Oz Arshad are joined by Sebastian Thiel for the second part of their conversation on how he directed three episodes of the global number one Netflix show, SUPACELL. Sebastian is also a writer, producer and all-round cre…

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E213 - The Journey to Directing SUPACELL with Sebastian Thiel Part 1 55:00

1M ago55:00

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This is Episode 13 in the second season of The Directors Take Podcast. In this week’s episode your hosts Marcus Anthony Thomas and Oz Arshad are joined by Sebastian Thiel, who is one of the directors on Netflix’s global number one show, SUPACELL. Sebastian is also a writer, producer and all-round creative, so we brought him on to talk us through hi…

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E212 - The Art of Performance with Brian Gilbert - Part 2 58:37

1M ago58:37

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This is Episode 12 in the second season of The Directors Take Podcast. In this week’s episode your hosts Marcus Anthony Thomas and Oz Arshad are joined by Brian Gilbert, a BAFTA and Oscar Nominated Director and one of the lead tutors at the National Film and Television School, who specialises in the art of performance and working with actors. This …

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E211 - The Art of Performance with Brian Gilbert - Part 1 1:03:45

2M ago1:03:45

1:03:45

This is Episode 11 in the second season of The Directors Take Podcast. In this week’s episode your hosts Marcus Anthony Thomas and Oz Arshad are joined by Brian Gilbert, a BAFTA and Oscar Nominated Director and one of the lead tutors at the National Film and Television School, who specialises in the art of performance and working with actors. Your …

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E210 - How We Became Writer/Directors with Marcus & Oz 54:13

2M ago54:13

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Episode 10 of The Directors Take Podcast is AVAILABLE NOW on all major platforms. In this week’s episode your hosts Oz Arshad and Marcus Anthony Thomas are joined by absolutely no-one, as they break down how they became Writer/Directors… With a special emphasis on the writer part. Writing is one of the first skills we learn as humans and writing st…

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E209 - How I Directed HOUSE OF THE DRAGON with Clare Kilner 1:16:41

2M ago1:16:41

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This is Episode 9 in the second season of The Directors Take Podcast… and we’ve hit a very special milestone as this is our 50th Episode overall! To mark this special occasion your hosts Oz Arshad and Marcus Anthony Thomas are joined by one of the directors of HBO’s HOUSE OF THE DRAGON and our mentor Clare Kilner. She is an exceptional filmmaker wh…

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E208 - Showrunning BBC's Domino Day with Lauren Sequeira 1:14:41

2M ago1:14:41

1:14:41

This is Episode 8 in the second season of The Directors Take Podcast. In this week’s episode your hosts Oz Arshad and Marcus Anthony Thomas are joined by Writer & Showrunner Lauren Sequeira. A BAFTA nominated writer and a member of the BBC’s Hotlist, they wrote on Kiss Me First and seasons 1 & 2 of Gangs of London before Showrunning their very own …

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E207 - Oliver Kassman on Producing Modern Horrors 1:15:46

3M ago1:15:46

1:15:46

This is Episode 7 of our brand new season of The Directors Take Podcast. This week's episode is a conversation with Producer Oliver Kassman from Escape Plan, who have made waves in the genre space in creating films such as SAINT MAUD, OUT OF DARKNESS and the recent feature LOVE LIES BLEEDING starring Kristen Stewart, Katy O’Brian & Ed Harris. Olive…

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E206 - Is Perfectionism Killing Your Creativity? With Dr. Thomas Curran 1:36:13

3M ago1:36:13

1:36:13

This is Episode 6 of our brand new season of The Directors Take Podcast. This week's episode is a conversation with Dr. Thomas Curran, a renowned Psychologist and Associate Professor in the esteemed Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics and Author of ‘one of Bloomberg’s best books of 2023’, The Perfec…

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E205 - After 16 Months on House of the Dragon, What Did We Learn? 1:08:18

3M ago1:08:18

1:08:18

This is Episode 5 of our brand new season of The Directors Take Podcast. This weeks episode is a chat between Marcus and Oz, where they talk about their experience as Director Shadows/Mentees on House of the Dragon for the very first time. -What was the scheme and selection process? -Our first few weeks on the production. -Reading the scripts. -Cre…

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E204 - Costume Designing on Rye Lane with Cynthia Lawrence-John 1:06:29

3M ago1:06:29

1:06:29

This is Episode 4 of our brand new season of The Directors Take Podcast. This weeks episode is with the exceptional Costume Designer, Cynthia Lawrence-John. She has worked with some of the biggest brands in the world such as Adidas, Samsung, Amex and with a slew of directors such as Melina Matsoukas (Queen & Slim), Kibwe Tavares (The Kitchen) and N…

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E203 - How Directors Shape Stories 1:04:15

3M ago1:04:15

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This is Episode 3 of our brand new season of The Directors Take Podcast. This weeks episode is a chat with just Marcus and Oz, where they break down exactly how YOU as a director need to be thinking, planning and prepping in order to shape the story that you’re working on. This is a deep dive on directing craft and this conversation covers: -How do…

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E202 - How I Directed Love Lies Bleeding with Rose Glass 1:04:47

4M ago1:04:47

1:04:47

Hello again... This is Episode 2 of our brand new season of The Directors Take Podcast. This weeks episode is our live podcast recording with Writer/Director Rose Glass, which was recorded at our very first live event and was performed immediately after the screening of her latest film LOVE LIES BLEEDING, which stars Kristen Stewart, Katy O'Brian a…

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E201 - How I Directed Baby Reindeer with Weronika Tofilska 1:47:26

4M ago1:47:26

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WE'RE BACK! This is the very first exciting episode of our brand new season of The Directors Take Podcast, In this episode we'll be speaking to Weronika Tofilska who is the lead director (Eps1-4) of the Netflix global phenomenon BABY REINDEER. As ever we break down directing craft to gain a greater understanding of how this smash hit show was creat…

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E141 - How We Made a BAFTA Nominated Short 1:32:24

7M ago1:32:24

1:32:24

In this Bafta Special episode of The Directors' Take podcast, your hosts Oz Arshad and Marcus Anthony Thomas are joined by BAFTA nominees Yasmin Afifi and Elham Ehsas. Yasmin is an award-winning writer/director based in London and her her grad film Jellyfish and Lobster has gone on to receive widespread industry acclaim, screening in festivals all …

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E140 - This Is The End 1:06:43

9M ago1:06:43

1:06:43

In this episode of The Directors' Take podcast, your hosts Oz Arshad and Marcus Anthony Thomas are joined by absolutely nobody, as they do a recap on all of The Directors' Take Podcast episodes so far... This is the end... In this episode we talk about the following:- -Why we started the podcast -The initial response to it. -What we gained from it.…

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E139 - Money, Mental Health & Bullying with The Film and TV Charity 57:51

10M ago57:51

57:51

In this episode of The Directors' Take podcast, your hosts Oz Arshad and Marcus Anthony Thomas are joined by Justine Walton and Lucy Tallon from the Film and TV Charity. About the Film and TV Charity The Film and TV Charity is here to support everyone working behind the scenes in film, TV, and cinema industry. From its free, 24/7 Film and TV Suppor…

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E138 - Writing BBC’s TIME Season 2 with Writer Helen Black 1:48:04

10M ago1:48:04

1:48:04

In this episode of The Directors' Take podcast, your hosts Oz Arshad and Marcus Anthony Thomas are joined by Writer Helen Black. Helen has transitioned into TV after writing a series of successful crime novels, picking up credits on shows such as Life and Death in the Warehouse, Grantchester and now the second season of the hit BBC show, TIME, star…

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E137 - 10 shorts to Doctor Who with Annetta Laufer 1:15:48

10M ago1:15:48

1:15:48

In this episode of The Directors' Take podcast, your hosts Oz Arshad and Marcus Anthony Thomas are joined by Annetta Laufer, a Writer/Director who has directed episodes of Dr. Who and the upcoming HBO series Get Millie Black. Annetta, like many of us, was stuck in an endless loop of directing short films, but remained true to her taste and principl…

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E136 - What Makes a Great Short Film? 58:46

10M ago58:46

58:46

In this episode of The Directors' Take podcast, your hosts Oz Arshad and Marcus Anthony Thomas are joined by absolutely no-one this week, as we decided to create a list of the short films that have inspired them. We break down their story structure and try to deconstruct what makes these films and filmmakers so great. This conversation includes: -W…

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E135 - To Sundance and Back Again with Writer/Director Tomisin Adepeju 1:28:41

10M ago1:28:41

1:28:41

In this episode of The Directors' Take podcast, your hosts Oz Arshad and Marcus Anthony Thomas are joined by Writer/Director Tomisin Adepeju. Tomisin is a Nigerian-British Filmmaker based in London whose work has travelled to several major film festivals including Sundance and BFI London Film Festival. He also is the founder and curator of the film…

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E134 - Halloween Special: Directing Ghostwatch with Lesley Manning 1:28:39

11M ago1:28:39

1:28:39

In this episode of The Directors' Take podcast, your hosts Oz Arshad and Marcus Anthony Thomas are joined by Lesley Manning, the director of 1992's cult classic British horror, Ghostwatch. The highest rated single drama for 48 years on the BBC and named by Channel 4 as the most controversial TV drama, Ghostwatch has had a a resurgence around its 30…

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E133 - Demystifying Editing with BAFTA Breakthrough Brit Mdhamiri Á Nkemi 1:11:37

11M ago1:11:37

1:11:37

In this episode of The Directors' Take podcast, your hosts Oz Arshad and Marcus Anthony Thomas are joined by the prodigiously gifted editor Mdhamiri Á Nkemi. A BAFTA Breakthrough Brit and Screen Daily Star of Tomorrow, he has a long list of credits which includes The Last Tree by Shola Amoo, Blue Story by Rapman and Ear for Eye by Debbie Tucker Gre…

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E132 - The Art of Cinema Part 2 with Film Guru Ian Sellar 58:05

11M ago58:05

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In this episode of The Directors' Take podcast, your hosts Oz Arshad and Marcus Anthony Thomas are joined by Ian Sellar, a Director, Screenwriter, Script-Editor and tutor from the National Film and Television School. He has had a key hand in the development of all the major success stories you have seen that have passed through the halls of the NFT…

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E131 - The Art of Cinema Part 1 with Film Guru Ian Sellar 50:41

11M ago50:41

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In this episode of The Directors' Take podcast, your hosts Oz Arshad and Marcus Anthony Thomas are joined by Ian Sellar, a Director, Screenwriter, Script-Editor and tutor from the National Film and Television School. He has had a key hand in the development of all the major success stories you have seen that have passed through the halls of the NFT…

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E130 - Lewis Arnold Part 2: The Craft of Directing TV 1:20:41

12M ago1:20:41

1:20:41

In this episode of The Directors' Take podcast, your hosts Oz Arshad and Marcus Anthony Thomas are joined by Director Lewis Arnold, whose directing credits include MISFITS, BROADCHURCH, DARK MONEY, CLEANING UP featuring Sheridan Smith, DES featuring David Tennant, TIME featuring Sean Bean and Stephen Graham, SHERWOOD with Adeel Akhtar and he has mo…

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E129 - Lewis Arnold Part 1: Breaking into TV Directing 1:30:56

12M ago1:30:56

1:30:56

In this episode of The Directors' Take podcast, your hosts Oz Arshad and Marcus Anthony Thomas are joined by Director Lewis Arnold, whose directing credits include MISFITS, BROADCHURCH, DARK MONEY, CLEANING UP featuring Sheridan Smith, DES featuring David Tennant, TIME featuring Sean Bean and Stephen Graham, SHERWOOD with Adeel Akhtar and he has mo…

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E128 - Demystifying the art of Production Design with Jacqueline Abrahams 1:37:28

12M ago1:37:28

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In this episode of The Directors' Take podcast, your hosts Oz Arshad and Marcus Anthony Thomas are joined by Jacqueline Abrahams, a BAFTA and BIFA winning Production Designer who has worked with directors such as Michael Winterbottom, Yann Demange and Yorgos Lanthimos. We used this conversation to tap into their creativity and to dig down into the …

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E127 - How to make a movie at Film4 with Amy O’Hara 1:26:55

1y ago1:26:55

1:26:55

In this episode of The Directors' Take podcast, your hosts Oz Arshad and Marcus Anthony Thomas are joined by Amy O'Hara who is a Development & Production Exec at Film 4. We began this podcast as people who are actively working at making our own TV and Feature Film projects, but the pathway towards this goal is extremely rocky, murky, difficult etc.…

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E126 - Demystifying Intimacy Co-ordinators with Louise Kempton 1:21:28

1y ago1:21:28

1:21:28

In this episode of The Directors' Take podcast, your hosts Oz Arshad and Marcus Anthony Thomas are joined by Louise Kempton, who is an intimacy co-ordinator that has worked on projects such as The Great, Gangs of London and the upcoming feature film Hoard. Intimacy co-ordination is a relatively new role and directors may feel that they are losing c…

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E125 - Demystifying Online Releases with Short of the Week’s Rob Munday 58:53

1y ago58:53

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In this episode of The Directors' Take podcast, your hosts Oz Arshad and Marcus Anthony Thomas are joined by Rob Munday, who is the current Managing Editor of Short of the Week and co-founder of Directors Notes. As a director looking to break into the industry, you may think that gaining laurels from physical film festivals is what you need in orde…

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E124 - The Director/Actor Relationship with Henpocalypse! Star Callie Cooke 1:19:31

1y ago1:19:31

1:19:31

In this episode of The Directors' Take podcast, your hosts Oz Arshad and Marcus Anthony Thomas are joined by Henpocalypse! and general TV star Callie Cooke to help break down what the relationship between a director and an actor can look like. This conversation covers: -Callie's journey from Northamptonshire to the Film & TV industry. -How she got …

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E123 - Composing for Heartstopper with Adiescar Chase 1:29:19

1y ago1:29:19

1:29:19

In this episode of The Directors' Take podcast, your hosts Oz Arshad and Marcus Anthony Thomas are joined by composer Adiescar Chase, to talk us through her journey into composing and how she ended up as the lead composer on Netflix's hit coming of age TV show Heartstopper. This conversation covers: -How Adiescar got into composing music for TV & F…

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E122 - Directing Dreaming Whilst Black with Joelle Mae David 1:19:42

1y ago1:19:42

1:19:42

In this episode of The Directors' Take podcast, your hosts Oz Arshad and Marcus Anthony Thomas are joined by director Joelle Mae David to talk us through her journey into the industry and how she went about directing the middle block of the hit BBC and A24 show, Dreaming Whilst Black from creator Adjani Salmon. As ever this is a craft focused conve…

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E121 - Navigating Development & TV with Writer/Director Raisah Ahmed 1:18:28

1y ago1:18:28

1:18:28

In this episode of The Directors' Take podcast, your hosts Oz Arshad and Marcus Anthony Thomas are joined by Writer/Director Raisah Ahmed. Raisah talks us through her journey into filmmaking, discussing her work as a writer in Sundance Writers' Lab, gaining her first TV directing credits, navigating the tricky world of development and her work on t…

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E120 - What is tone? 59:50

1y ago59:50

59:50

In this episode of The Directors' Take podcast, your hosts Oz Arshad and Marcus Anthony Thomas are joined by absolutely no-one. As filmmakers you may have heard someone mention tone in relation to yours or another directors' work and tone can be created instinctually because of past experience and taste or it can be more consciously crafted. Either…

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E119 - Demystifying Film Schools with Writer/Director Remi Moses 1:23:59

1y ago1:23:59

1:23:59

In this episode of The Directors' Take podcast, your hosts Oz Arshad and Marcus Anthony Thomas are joined by Writer/Director Remi Moses, a recent attendee of the prestigious London Film School. There are no clear routes into the film industry as a director and many people see film schools as a clear pathway, but this isn't entirely the case. With M…

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E118 - To Hollywood and Back Again with Writer/Director Sam Baron 1:36:22

1y ago1:36:22

1:36:22

In this episode of The Directors' Take podcast, your hosts Oz Arshad and Marcus Anthony Thomas are joined by Writer/Director Sam Baron. He talks us through his journey into filmmaking and how he came to win the prestigious Academy Nicholl Fellowship screenwriting competition, which propelled him into the industry. Not everything panned out in the w…

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E117 - Demystifying Film Festivals with London Short Film Festival’s Philip Ilson 1:07:58

1y ago1:07:58

1:07:58

In this episode of The Directors' Take podcast, your hosts Oz Arshad and Marcus Anthony Thomas are joined by Philip Ilson, the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the BAFTA and BIFA Qualifying London Short Film Festival. As a director looking to break into the industry, you need to get your film into reputable film festivals to platform your work and gai…

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E116 - Sarmad Masud Part 2: Directing Sky’s Bulletproof & BBC’s You Don’t Know Me 1:10:49

1y ago1:10:49

1:10:49

In this episode of The Directors' Take podcast, your hosts Oz Arshad and Marcus Anthony Thomas continue with part 2 of their discussion with Director Sarmad Masud, whose credits include Hollyoaks, Channel 4’s Ackley Bridge, BBC’s You Don’t Know Me and Sky’s Bulletproof. He also wrote and directed the indie feature My Pure Land which he shot in Paki…

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E115 - Sarmad Masud Part 1: Directing Shorts to an Indie Feature 51:59

1y ago51:59

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In this episode of The Directors' Take podcast, your hosts Oz Arshad and Marcus Anthony Thomas are joined by Director Sarmad Masud, whose credits include Hollyoaks, Channel 4’s Ackley Bridge, BBC’s You Don’t Know Me and Sky’s Bulletproof. He also wrote and directed the indie feature My Pure Land which he shot in Pakistan. Sam takes us through: -His…

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E114 - Shooting House of the Dragon with Cinematographer Catherine Goldschmidt BSC 1:10:21

1+ y ago1:10:21

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In this episode of The Directors' Take podcast, your hosts Oz Arshad and Marcus Anthony Thomas are joined by Cinematographer Catherine Goldschmidt BSC, whose credits include Doctor Who, A Discovery of Witches and most recently HBO's House of the Dragon and she is also co-founder of a UK collective of female cinematographers called Illuminatrix. In …

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E113 - Demystifying First ADs with Blue Story’s Steven Eniraiyetan 1:23:07

1+ y ago1:23:07

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In this episode of The Directors' Take podcast, your hosts Oz Arshad and Marcus Anthony Thomas are joined by First Assistant Director Steven Eniraiyetan, whose recent credits include Netflix's The Strays, Dreaming Whilst Black by Adjani Salmon and Blue Story by Rapman. As a Director, the people you will be working with closest on a film set is the …

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E112 - What is Directing? 39:16

1+ y ago39:16

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In this episode of The Directors' Take podcast, your hosts Oz Arshad and Marcus Anthony Thomas are joined by absolutely no-one... It's just the two of them, and they ponder and breakdown what they believe the fundamentals of directing is. This chat covers: -What is directing? -What is your voice? -What is blocking? -How do you communicate informati…

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E111 - Em Gilbertson: 2nd Unit Directing on ITV’s Malpractice 1:15:31

1+ y ago1:15:31

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In this episode of The Directors' Take podcast, your hosts Oz Arshad and Marcus Anthony Thomas are joined by Director Em Gilbertson, a recent National Film and Television School graduate who is currently making their way as a 2nd Unit Director for TV, most recently working on Malpractice which is directed by Philip Barantini and stars Niamh Algar. …

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E110 - Demystifying BFI Network Funding with Film Hub North’s Ben Taylor 1:23:29

1+ y ago1:23:29

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In this episode of The Directors' Take podcast, your hosts Oz Arshad and Marcus Anthony Thomas are joined by Film Hub North's very own Ben Taylor, a BFI Talent Exec. With BFI Network funding being one of the most widely accessible funding pots for aspiring filmmakers in England, we decided to bring on one of the people who has a say in which projec…

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E109 - Amit Shah: Acting in Happy Valley 1:30:03

1+ y ago1:30:03

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In this episode of The Directors' Take podcast, your hosts Oz Arshad and Marcus Anthony Thomas are joined by prolific actor Amit Shah (Happy Valley, His Dark Materials, Doctor Who). One of the most important collaborations on a film set is between a Director and their cast, so we do a deep dive into what that process looks like to help demystify wh…

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