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Welcome to Indy Film Craft, a show hosted by me, Jeffrey Crane Graham.

We're a spinoff show of the Screenwriting Life podcast, which I produce alongside Oscar-nominated

Inside Outwriter Megalphove and Emmy-nominated showrunner, Lorian McKenna.

So if you're just discovering our feed through this episode, welcome.

We have hundreds of episodes dedicated to the craft of writing.

But we know that we have

listeners who also aspire to direct, so once a month we'll be devoting one episode of our feed

to a filmmaker conversation aiming for a 360-degree view of the entire filmmaking process.

I'm a filmmaker myself. I recently sold my debut feature Always Lola, so I'm particularly

excited to learn from some of Hollywood's most exciting

indie writer directors. One of my goals with the show is to drop my conversations on or near

the release dates for the movies we're talking about, so you can also watch them with

the specific context that these filmmakers are speaking from, kind of like a mini film club

with our listeners. But that said, I'll try to keep things relatively spoiler-free,

so you can also go in blind. Speaking of, I'm try to keep things relatively spoiler-free so you can also go

in blind. Speaking of, I'm thrilled to be interviewing two filmmakers whose work I've loved

for a number of years, Tyler Nilsson and Michael Schwartz. Together, they wrote and directed

the Peanut Butter Falcon, a heartwarming road movie starring Shia LeBuff and Dakota Johnson.

The movie won the Audience Award at Southby when it premiered, and it remains one of my

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