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featuring today's top directors sharing behind-the-scenes stories of their latest films and insights into the craft of directing.

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In this episode, director Pedro Al Moldavar takes us behind the scenes of his film,

Pain and Glory. This deeply personal film from Spain tells the story of Salvador

Mayo, a depressed director who is thinking of leaving filmmaking because of chronic health

problems. A series of encounters, both real and remembered, leads Mayo to reflect on the choices he's

made and ruminate about creation and the difficulty of separating it from one's own life.

Pain and Glory was screened as part of the DGA's Global Cinema Series, which aims to spotlight

landmark foreign films for DGA members and guests by presenting screenings of contemporary,

classic, and independent films, as well as conversations with their directors.

Pain and Glory earned Mr. El Moldovar a Palm Door nomination at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival and a Spain's

official Academy Awards entry for Best International Feature. His other credits include the feature

films Julietta, The Skin I Live In, Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, and Matador.

He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Director in 2002, for his feature

Talk to Her, and won the Best Director Prize at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival for All About

My Mother, which also took home the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2000. Following the Global

Cinema series screening of the film at the DGA Theater in New York,

Mr. Al Moldovar spoke with director Kenneth Lonergan about filming Pain and Glory.

Listen on for their spoiler-filled conversation.

Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much.

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